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Okay, so I need to get effects here at school for a project that my teacher and the IT have approved, but the C:/Program Files folder is not accessible, even to Power Users. Is there a way to have Paint.NET read effects from a separate folder?

Sharpen is nice, but here's an effect that makes your image seem like it's made from old paper, crisp, and sharpens it in a certain way. 1. Open your base image. 2. :AddNewLayer: Add New Layer. 3. Effects > Stylize > Edge Detect: Choose any degree. 4. Oh no! What have you done? It's fine, click :Properties: Layer Properties (alternatively hit F4), and change the blend mode to Additive. 5. Duplicate the top layer until you get your desired crispness. 6. Flatten! Ctrl+Shift+F After some tinkering, let's compare the two: This is not an advanced effect, but it's nice for an old feel, or a good texture for newbies. Comments/Results?

You need alpha masks on the first 2, but overall, it's nice. The second two can both be done with the Multicolor Gradient plugin, so the custom way you must've done it is unneccessary.

Good work, but the first one is badly done on the player. You should work on effects and the capabilities of PDN a little bit, these pictures have potential!

Try changing the opacity of the building, but I'm not sure what you're asking for, could you explain more? If I understand you right, just select the building and delete everything else, resize it so it's overlaying the explosion, and change the opacity.

Okay... I just took an old one, not much touchup but I guess this could bump this thread because it's a nice idea. EDIT: Haha, I forgot to post the image! Thanks for catching that, Juraiko! Doyyy EDIT: No, not necro, but this is a nice idea and I actually have something to say about it.

Everyone gets one gallery in the Pictorium, so change this thread's title to "TruePaintNetta's Gallery" and then add your other work in here. As to where this picture goes, put it in an Image Umbrella, I would say either realistic or abstract, and as for the picture itself, the text needs to blend in better. The moon needs some serious feathering or blurring, and the stars are too concentrated in the middle of the vertical plane.

This is great for a newbie! My brother was confused as to how to create a plugin, and this is really great. Sticky?

Yes. Umm I'm putting together a tutorial, it was the result of a tablet and some custom skins. To tell you the truth, I stumbled upon the "Flubber" skin by accident while tinkering with the colors, and most of it is just creative shading. As soon as I can remember what I did, I'll post a tutorial.

And I love your neon-style.

Haven't you ever seen spam before? Yeah, it is usually awful to eat. Ahh, nah it's great pan-seared. And spam is beautiful, as seen by this post (jk)

@Yellowman: Great! Add some reflections and that's the only thing I can think of! @icey: I like the background on the green one, but you should play around with PDN more and find out some more about it, you;ve got some good stuff.

I wasn't sure if I should put this is sig's umbrella or here, so I'm posting it in both. I like the Flubber-like color scheme that I randomly stumbled on. Comments?

1. Copy from Word (or the other program) 2. Open the image you're trying to paste it on in Paint.NET 3. New Layer (Ctrl+Shift+N) 4. Text Tool --> Click on the picture 5. Ctrl+V, then adjust the size and font style. 6. The new layer is just so you can move it better after you click off from it. Basically, you have to paste it when the cursor is active.

Really nice! The forum is in dire need of some people who actually draw, not plugin-mash. Not that there's anything wrong with that, but this stuff is great.

A new one I made using 3D Shapes and Twist, then text effects and a custom "Flubber" skin I use, I think it looks nice.

Messed around with that particular one as a background to schoolwork for a day or two

It's abstract unless you think it's a laser, but I like this render.

^ made it on the "Improve on the signature of the person above you" for a user named something like eevee ^ made on the same topic for Yellowman ^ my new sig ^ a temporary link between the old sig and the new one

Ctrl+F has nothing to do with multi-threaded rendering. All it does is tell Paint.NET, "hey, you know that thing I just did? Do it again." I realized that, yeah I misunderstood the English. As soon as he reposted and Rick posted below him, I understood that. His wording was a little confusing.

Yay! (I don't know that it's abstract, but it sure isn't any of the other categories. @AullArkenbon: I didn't use PI on them, maybe the green/red one, can't remember how I made it, but I don't usually use PI for a lot of things. Well, I guess that some of my best use them... Oh well. Comments on interweb picture?

Start out with n00bish stuff: Pyrosig: "Saturn" Scotch Tape? Post-it NOW ORIGINAL STUFF Firey guitar: Shiny: Fur Texture Un-named colorful moat effect? THE PRIDE AND JOY OF COLLECTION (unfortunately): ^^Tutorial located in the Creations section, my URL function is not working EDIT: Okay, here's the link: http://paintdotnet.forumer.com/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=27238&start=0 A nice sig background: Arteries, maybe? A room for a Doritos commercial (Thanks for hard wood tutorial Jiggmin) Again, Doritos. For commercial. I call it "evil" ^^now my avatar^^ The neon circuitboard "The Aorta Effect" A weird toilet-paper like?? effect... Now this was hard to edit, I kept clicking the picture ugh... Bad attempt at jelly text- The Maelstrom tutorial derivative Melting text- My personal favorite, and newest (made it about 5 mins ago): EDITED MARCH 14th, 2009 A stained glass window? Believe it or not, it started as a UK flag. Comments?

The original picture looks aged, maybe add noise on a low setting, lower contrast, but SERIOUSLY FEATHER. That's what you always have to think about in Paint.NET, make sure you don't look like you piled layers together.

For background, if you don't like lomography do this: New Layer :AddNewLayer: Make Line/Curve :LineCurveTool: (use a color not in photo, like neon green) Outline the person. Use the nubs to curve the line. Magic Wand everything inside of the green outline Go down to the bottom layer, keeping selection. Cut. NEW LAYER :AddNewLayer: Paste. Delete the outline layer. The background layer, the one with the entire picture besides the person, on that one use Adjustments>Black and White See if it helps?