HenryH

File:Garfield logo.JPG - Wikimedia Commons Is this Cooper Black?

What's this font called? What are some other plump, Balloon-like fonts (available in Paint.Net) ?

(Thanks... i saw that, and another, similar Tutorial) Breaking up a (semi) uniformly colored space into this kind of pattern , and then painting them in alternating Hues... ........ that seems like a nice Plugin.... (Maybe in 5 years PDN will have a ChatBOT -like component)

i'm working on a picture, and -- Add a new layer -- paint it all white -- put the layer underneath -- Control-M to merge ---------- is there a shortcut that combines these 4 steps ?

i wish there was a Plug-in that can make a Tiffany Lamp (stained glass) -like image from any photograph or painting.

'Aardvark' -- is great... (i searched for, and found the reason for the weird name). i like its Phase-shifting in the [brick] option -- i wish i could adjust the Phase-shifting amount, which is now fixed at 1/2.

Thank you!!! Could you tell me the names of the plug-ins ? What bothers me about the (built-in) Layers/Rotate and zoom is that... Since i'm just panning in the Horizontal direction, this should be a Loss-less distortion, and i feel like i shouldn't have to specify Quality at all.

Hello... I'm wondering ... is there a tool or plugin for Phase-shifting (or horizontal "rotation") ?

One way to describe the effect i'm looking for is ... it's like [Sucking air out of a Rubber glove] If the shape in the OP were made of Rubber (and filled with air)... and i suck out air, the THIN line will not disappear and eventually i'll get to the shape at Lower-Right.

This is related to [Halftone with Vines] -- Topological-Fill (or Topology(Connectivity)-Preserving Fill) (Fill= Paint Bucket) When i do White-FILL (Paint-Bucket on the background) repeatedly, eventually the thinnest Line will disappear. With Topological-Fill, a Line will never disappear, so that we end up with thin Skeleton of figures (Shapes or Vines) --- How can we do this???

thank you.... i had tried Overlay before, but using Additive and blurring the vines got me something close to what i wanted.

I'm asking.... Can i do this with the Vine pattern (above) ? or any intricate, Fractal-like pattern, e.g. cracks in dried mud, or Zebra's spots?

vine pattern or any intricate, Fractal-like pattern, e.g. cracks in dried mud, or Zebra's spots. i was originally thinking about.... >>> here's a pattern (like below) and i see nothing, but when i move away from the screen, i see a very faint C pattern. where streaks (like branches of Lightning) invade from exterior to form a faint C pattern.

Halftone with Vines (?) -- How would i do this? There's a vine pattern (like below) and i see nothing, but when i move away from the screen, i see a very faint C pattern. Actually, i'm looking for something more Radical ... or extreme: Left side is completely black, and the Right side is white and there's (gradual) vine pattern in the middle.

Thank you... i just realized that by setting Tolerance at 4%, the (vanilla) magic wand does something like what i wanted. But later, when i tried with another (clearer, crisper) image (of a crossword puzzle grid), even with Tolerance at 0%, the magic-wand click got (leaked out) to all the thin lines.

Thank you (Pixey) for the comment! i'll try that.... it seems (for that purpose), it's useful to have a grid of lines (width=0). and it seems that there is no [smart MagicWand] that selects only the big blocks (or regions). (the Crossword grid (in the OP) was from NYTimes)

Do you have some special method for separating the Numbers, Black Blocks, and the Grid into different layers??? (That may take me more than 1 hour to do that cleanly.) For Black Blocks, What i'd do is... Duplicate Layer. Then 1. select Rectangular region, 2 delete (repeat 1,2) Selecting just right would take me a long time.

(Copy-Move-Wiggle task) -- Why do i have to Undo (ctrl-Z) twice ??? i am (or "NNuser" is) copying the RED squares into some of the Grid-boxes. When i've done 4 of them, i realize that the 4th one is Off-Center... NNuser (Naive Novice user, aka "Neo") hits Control-Z , and starts to Wiggle again --- but that's the WRONG THING !!! (it exposes that underlying Void-checker-pattern that's running the Matrix, the substrate) (This is the PDN-counterpart to the [BLUE Screen of Death] (of MSDOS-age) -- Some young ppl today have NEVER seen it?) NNuser realizes that it's as if he did a CUT (control-X) and not a Copy (control-C). The Correct-Thing is to hit Control-Z twice, THEN he can start moving it again. What would be the thinking behind Requiring this 2nd Control-Z ???

Let's say i have a Crossword Grid... (containing Lines, Numbers, and Blocks) I want to paint all the Blocks Blue --- or make them meshed (to conserve Toner). Is there a way to Select just the BLOCKS -- (or to change them in such a way) (without changing Lines of thickness (e.g.) less than 10) ?

(For a single-layer image file) Saving as .png is lossless and just as good as saving as a .pdn file ? >>> PNG files benefit from lossless compression. This means no data is lost when the image is compressed — the quality stays the same no matter how many times you edit and save the file. The image won't become blurry or distorted, making PNGs ideal for sharp logos and graphs containing lots of figures.

it'd be nice if PDN remembered all the parameters to a Plugin-Effect-Command from the last time i used it --- e.g. on the previous day. For example, SquirkleWarp has these parameters and more: pos-X, pos-Y, angle, wide, shape, size magnification, curvature, ....

>>> Here are some screenshots showing the effect UI, which may explain better Then i see a dozen (or so) URLs in text form, but i have to click on them to see the images.... How come the images are not embedded and shown on this page???

(Distort) Magnifier -- make it Smooth around the edges (oval boundary) ? Even with the smallest Distortion Amount (=1), there is some discontinuity (jumps in the Grid) along the Oval (elliptical) boundary. ------------- is there a version that's completely Smooth around the edges ???

(Liquify, Power Stretch --- are there other tools like them?) Does the following already exist? First, i make a selection, to specify the [Affected Rectangle] Then i pull on the [Anchor Point], and the Affected-Rectangle gets distorted Horizontally and/or Vertically. Here, i pulled the Anchor-Point to the Right (while pressing SHIFT)

@HenryH has not provided the requested paint.net Diagnostics and has not replied to a polite PM and subsequent email asking whether they intend doing so. <<< (observation 0. a self-claimed [polite PM] is almost-always not so.) (like when Veterans, Old-timers say [Welcome to our Forum!] ) i have some suggestions about (moderator(s) and Old-timers) making requests and sending "polite" PM's. --- based partly on observations about forums where [moderators] can be imposing, insulting, uninviting ... without realizing it. (Thank you for the suggestions and comments, esp. about the GPU-setting -- the GPU-setting didn't seem to change anything, including the speed.)