yellowman

Thank you very much everyone, who participated and voted, and congrats winners there were some great entries.

@ Welshy, thanks mate for the compliment.Damn, I just remembered that I actually used the AA assistant , and layer blend modes and opacity as well. @ Xzerizon, you have a big chance mate, Fiirst your entry is nice, and second mine could be disqualied.

Took me about 5 hours to complete it, Additional Plugins used very little: DropShadow and Liquify ( one or two touches for each), of course Crystalize and Relief but on the road only. Background my own photo ( Cell Phone camera) Source Image

It is a little hard with Paint.NET to get the correct perspective for projects like these, which is so important or actually it is the main aim to achieve plus 3D / Light / Shadow, but it is doable with some extra efforts and some imagination and workaround, I have noticed that the base of the structure/building is the most difficult part to control, so the best way in my opinion is to try to hide it behind another object/objects. As an example, I have used in this image PDN for the towers, I paint the textures then used Shape-3D plugin to render them, of course every part is consist of few layers with different textures and patterns. Spaceships are Google Sketch-Up, landscape is TerraGen, clouds are real photos and sky is PDN.

@ dpy, what exactly that option does? I feel it is functioning oppositelly, when you are checking the box it is changing to un-fixed By the way, as I tried it on many different fonts, it is actually changing only the space between individual letters (fonts), not the body (shape) of the letters themselves, so based on this the functionality of this option is to change the "letter-spacing" or "letter-tracking" if I am not mistakien. Somebody has any idea ....?

I have picked the theme, my enetry shouldn't be on voting list, was that an old rule? BTW barbie, Welshy's sig in animated here in both places.

See the attached image:

Thanks dpy, great plugin to add to the text list, In the UI, I would change only (Change to Fixed Pitch Font) , Please, don't ask to what, my English is worst.

@ rafroller, please re-visit BoltBait's replay and mine as well.

If you needed for a short text work (few words), then, dpy's Wave Text has an option to control the space (Pitch of character), put "0" for Y pitch to kill the waves then adjust the spacing. Use the Text+ plugin that BoltBait linked to, it is actually a very new plugin, published just 2 hours from my reply, haven't paid attention to it, it actually has the spacing feature, but you need to activate it. Thanks Boltbait and sorry again.

All are great mate, really hard to pick one I like more, Ob I would vote for, too

That's another great feature to add to the app. I just have a question and not sure if it could be implemented, is it possible to keep !B as a background for all following layers (not frames)? That means a background for all other layers of a multiple layers PDN file

Thanks, I am glad you liked the idea, it is quite easy, I used level 2 of Quality with the Magnifier plugin ( and that was the only plugin/effect I used), But I worked on a large canvas, unfortunatly I haven't Saved the original file size, but as I remeber the width was 2400 pix, then I scaled the canvas down to around 11%, this how I got the sharp text through the magnifier lens. I hope I have answered your question, if you need more details please feel free.

@ WelshBlue, I have only one writen tutorial for animations, I think you're referring to this, I really forgot about it, looks like we now know more plugins and capabililties with PDN, like the Circle Text plugin..... but I agree the tut may give some inspiration, thanks mate. BTW, midora's PDNAnimator, is amazing, very fast and smooth, and you can use the plugin to review your work , just save the PDN file then drag and drop it to the plugin, and when you are satisfied with your work export the PNG file, or use any animator app. to generate the animation as gif. Edit: misspelling, I don't why Auto spelling is not supported in this forum.

Do the the 3 GIFs have same size (width & Height) and same number of frames? Temporary, if they are small GIFs, you can upload them to a host site (PhotoBucket) then link them to a web page, put the first code of the first file on a line, then the other two file on the second line side by side, and view them to see how they work.

My bad, haven't checked the other thread and your discussions. That would be so great midora, because APNG/AGIF plugin is not working with me at all, looking forward to see your version. Thanks so much for the great work and efforts. @ nitenurse, thanks, well explained, are you using XP ?, because it never worked on my PC W7, but it was very good on XP, I used to use it before.

Click for larger size On Internet Explorer may work alower.

Try this: Image Composite Editor And you may like this too: Phoyosynth

Thanks you very much nitenurse79, you are really doing a great work with this comp. to keep it running and active. And congratulations doughty and jim, nice sigs there And thanks to all participants, voters and watchers

"Smudge used to include the Paintbrush but doesn't anymore. Any PNG can be used as a brush." Check this link: http://forums.getpai...720#entry372800

The fastest way is to use either Borders N' Shapes or Outline Selection or OutineSelection plugins, But if you don't want to use plugins, then you need to reduce the Canvas size by same amount of pixels for the Width and Height, then enlarge it to the original size.

What video program are you using, most programs they have edit feature and you can fix the problem using the program itself if the dots are in same locations in all frames.

Welshy, it is closed, it says on top right "You cannot reply to this topic"

Nice effect, how do you use the "Lens Artefact Scale" option by the way? It is not doing any change when moving the slider. Thanks.

EER, I think he/she is dealing with multiple image ( each image consists of many layers) and all images are open in PDN avim1968, I think the long way you are using is the fastest (Air-quote) available for now, if you are working with small canvas for animation purpose then try to find a good screen capture that supports Fixed-size and Auto-naming/saving.