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  1. This is a sweet tutorial! However, I got to the part where you were supposed to flip it horizontally, I did it, but it flipped both layers, so nothing really happened. I couldn't figure out how to make just one layer flip, so I took what I had and put some other effects on there...

    HexaSwirlnumber2.png

    Personally I love it. :P

    If you want to flip a layer press Ctrl+Shift+Z. It is under layer -> rotate/zoom. You can adjust the angle to 180.

  2. I'm assuming you've got two images of the same sky-space, one in Red and one in Blue and you want to overlay these and (somehow) fake a green layer to make a true RGB image?

    Am I getting this right?

    Exactly. I do not know of any way to make a false-green channel. There is an IR (infra-red) image, but that will not do for many reasons but mostly because IR light goes through gas and dust differently than green light does.

    Yes, the images are of the same part of the sky.

  3. All that I am think is something like below:

    Rpix1 Gpix1 Bpix1

    Rpix2 Gpix2 Bpix2

    etc

    This would work if the image is either one pixel high and x pixels wide or 1 pixel wide and x pixels high. Separation could be something like a tab or a space or anything that is not contained in the numbers. See below for another example.

    102 222 184

    194 203 143

    143 132 100

    003 050 023

    Something like that would be perfect.

  4. The only reason that I am asking is because I could do it by hand via the eyedropper tool and read off the RGB values, and I have done that, but it takes too long. I need a way to automate the process. I understand the Paint.NET is not a program to analyze images, but making it more flexible to be able to do that could bring along more uses. Astronomy is all about taking pictures and changing them into numbers so that one can run a statistical analysis on it. That is what I hope to use Paint.NET for. Besides, I would make a plugin for myself, but I am not well versed in C#, I am more of an LaTeX, HTML, Visual Basic kind of guy.

  5. Hey, I am an astronomer studying globular cluster cor collapse. I am wondering if there is a way to take the RGB values of each pixel to a text file so that I can then import that in an excel document. I have a 640 x 1 bmp file, the details of how I got it are unimportant, but I need to plot the RGB values in a scatter plot. Thanks

  6. Just want to throw this out into the public. When I clicked on the links for the sample for curves+ my firewall blocked it from loading. After some investigating I found out it was because it has spyware associated with the link. I am not sure if the spyware is part of the website for what, but I just wanted to let everybody know.

  7. Thanks, that helps me with the concept a lot. Originally I thought I that needed to use an alpha mask for that effect. My only question now relates to the amplitude, or the height, or the ripples. I am looking to replicate something along the lines of this:

    Water ripple image or this image Second image

    I notice that if I set the displacement value too high or too low, the illusion is lost. I am trying to make a picture of a water drop hitting the water below and having ripples come out of it with a background that I am going to figure out later on. I do not want to take up all your time, but I am still somewhat confused on alpha mask displacement. Is there a way that I could use a different technique to achieve the same, or similar, result? I am really stuck with this because I love the idea, and I do not want to have to take a picture. My goal is to do this all on the computer from scratch as I said before. You were a hug help yellowman, but there just isn't enough height for me. Thanks for your help again!

  8. If I correctly understood you, then you want to achieve some thing like this?

    3Ddroprple.jpg

    If yes then you are almost there just you need to apply the Alpha Displacement plugin after the layer rotating, this is just a basic image you can add your own texture to the water.

    Some more effect using same technique:

    th_tornado.jpg th_swril2.jpg

    That is a great idea! I can't believe that I did not think of that. I was just using the alpha displacement plugin yesterday (the day after I submitted this question). So if I understand you correctly, you are saying that I could just use the rotated image to make an alpha mask. Then I would simply apply that to the image via alpha displacement?

  9. This is truly an epic tutorial!! Great job. There needs to be more tutorials that have this quality, and more people like you to post them!

    Just a suggestion, at the step where you need to select and delete the excess background. After the background is deleted. run an anti-alias or a tiny tiny feather on the edge of the flag to make it look a bit smoother.

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