lklauder

The following tweaks would make life easier: 1) have the brush and line width drop down start the visible part of the list centered about the current value. 2) provide a keyboard shortcut to do horizontal flip of current layer (there was a broader discussion of this in 2012). 3) make the crossed line cursor for line placement a bit darker, particularly when it is over a part of the image that is empty (It is currently hard to find there; this was also discussed in an earlier post).

It would help me with some repetitive line drawing work if there were a command for creating and labeling temporary buttons to reinstate drawing tool settings such as: spline - black - 9 pixels, spline - black - 7 pixels, brush - white - 95 pixels. With such a feature I would be able with a single click to accomplish what now repeatedly takes me 4 or 5 mouse clicks.

Thanks. That provides a nice work-around.

Thanks for the reply. I appreciate it. I tried the suggestion of increasing resolution by factor of 10 (from 1200 dpi to 12000 dpi) but as that reduced the physical size by a factor of 10 the problem with being able to distinguish tics became vastly worse (the whole ruler had only one labeled tic). Uping the physical size to compensate takes the ruler tics back to where they were (difficult to discern) but in the process messes up the artwork (resampling was set to bilinear). I cannot go in the other direction (lower resolution) because the lines would then come out poorly in a reduced size printed version. I attached an image of the ruler in a separate e-mail to you so you could see what I am talking about. (I do not know how to include in this post an image that does not have a URL on the web.). If the code for the tic lengths is part of a relatively small .cs file that produces its own .dll (so that I could see the results of changes) and if you were interested in letting me look at, I would be happy to see if I could do any good. (I work in VS 2008 and have written code to automatically adjust a distance scale while zooming.) Background wise, I am comfortable in much of C# and VS but am a novice with respect to raster images. By the way, thanks for paint.net. I find it to be a wonderful program.

When zoomed to 200% I find it very hard to distinguish the centimeter ruler 0.1, 0.2, etc tics from the neighboring tics representing values such as 0.095. It would help a lot if the tic lengths assigned for successive zoom values could maintain a visually effective hierarchy. From a coding point of view this ought to be fairly easy.

It took me a little while to figure out how to get the align object plugin to do anything. My problem was that I have been working on images created by cropping-to-selection within scanned images of some 5 x 7 cards. The resulting canvases had content throughout, even though I was not thinking of the white areas as content. Only when I used an eraser to create pixel-free borders around a trial image did the align object plugin have something it could work with. It then exhibited the behavior for which everyone has been expressing appreciation. If the author thinking about possible enhancements, one candidate might be something like MessageBox.Show ( "non-blank pixels reach edge(s) of canvas so movement is limited" ); when a user requests movement that is not possible.

I found that I can get the simple behavior I want on my laptop by opening the Bamboo Properites dialog, Pen tap, and in the Tracking section changing from Pen Mode to Mouse Mode.

Preparatory to a week away from the office I loaded paint.Net and the Wacom Bamboo Pen driver on to my Asus G2 laptop that is running Vista 32 bit and has .Net 3.5 sp1. The Bamboo Pen worked in a simple and satisfactory way with paint.Net on my Vista 64 bit workstation and whereas the left mouse button works that way with paint.Net on the workstation and on the laptop. But, when I am in brush mode on the laptop and use the Bamboo Pen I hit a to me unhelpful feature. If the pen is moving as it touches the tablet there is a short hesitation before the the brush stroke begins to show up on the paint.Net window. If the pen touches the tablet and sits briefly paint.Net draws a white ring abound the brush image and if the pen is moved while the ring is visible the color switches from primary to secondary. If the pen stays where it touched for a couple of seconds the white ring goes away and the brush uses the primary color. I have not discovered a setting in Bamboo or in paint.Net to control this. Any help appreciated.

Suggestion by Boude to "try changing the resample option" of the Image // Resize dialog seems to provide the effect I was hoping for. I found that the bilinear and nearest-neighbor options both kept the horizontal and vertical straight lines pure black and of correct width and left the curved outlines that had intentionally fuzzy edges slightly less fuzzy but not by enough to disturb the desired effect.

Assuming the reference is to Effects // Distort // Pixilate, I tried that, but it made things worse rather than better. My current work-around is to use Adjustments // Brightness / Contrast to change the border compromise pixels from grey to black.

When an image is shrunk (e.g., 20%) lines that were black and sharp wind up with grey borders. Has there been any work on an option to get PDN to guess a suitable reduced line width that can keep horizontal and vertical straight lines all black?