[What's this font called? Other plump, Balloon-like fonts (available in Paint.Net) ?]

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        Is this Cooper Black?

[What's this font called? Other plump, Balloon-like fonts (available in Paint.Net) ?]

 

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

[Plugin that can make a Tiffany Lamp (stained glass) from any photograph or painting ?]

(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)

 

 

[-- Add a new layer -- paint it white -- put the layer underneath -- Control-M to merge <--- is there a shortcut that combines these 4 steps ?]

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 ?

[Plugin that can make a Tiffany Lamp (stained glass) from any photograph or painting ?]

 

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

 

[tool or plugin for Phase-shifting (or horizontal "rotation") ?]

 '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. 

 

[tool or plugin for Phase-shifting (or horizontal "rotation") ?]

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.

[tool or plugin for Phase-shifting (or horizontal "rotation") ?]

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

[Topological-Fill (or Topology(Connectivity)-Preserving Fill)]

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.

[Topological-Fill (or Topology(Connectivity)-Preserving Fill)]

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???

 

[Halftone with Vines (?) -- Left side is completely black, and the Right side is white and there's (gradual) vine pattern in the middle.]

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

 

[Halftone with Vines (?) -- Left side is completely black, and the Right side is white and there's (gradual) vine pattern in the middle.]

 

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?

 

[Halftone with Vines (?) -- Left side is completely black, and the Right side is white and there's (gradual) vine pattern in the middle.]

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 (?) -- Left side is completely black, and the Right side is white and there's (gradual) vine pattern in the middle.]

  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.

[Select just the (big) BLOCKS -- (or change them in some way) (without changing Lines of thickness (e.g.) less than 10) ?]

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.

[Select just the (big) BLOCKS -- (or change them in some way) (without changing Lines of thickness (e.g.) less than 10) ?]

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)

[Select just the (big) BLOCKS -- (or change them in some way) (without changing Lines of thickness (e.g.) less than 10) ?]

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 ???]

(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  ???

 

[Select just the (big) BLOCKS -- (or change them in some way) (without changing Lines of thickness (e.g.) less than 10) ?]

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 ?]

 

(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.   

 

[can PDN remember the parameters to a Plugin-Effect-Command from last time ? -- (e.g., on the previous day) ?]

 

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, ....   

[Squirklewarp]

>>> 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) ?]

(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 ???

 

 

[(Distort) -- (Rectangular) Power-Pull]

(Liquify,      Power Stretch --- are there other tools like them?)              Does the following already exist?

 

1. First, i make a selection, to specify the   [Affected Rectangle]
2. 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)

[Problematic requests and patronizing PM's]

@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.)