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This tutorial is available as a PDF. Click here to view or download it Halloween Pumpkin How to make a Halloween Pumpkin How to make a Halloween Pumpkin using paint.net in Russian Effects needed: Feather Selection Bevel Selection Trail Drop Shadow Part #1 Pumpkin 1.1. Create a new image (400x400) Fill the background with black Add a new layer Color #AD1801 Draw an ellipse 1.2. Duplicate red ellipse layer Color #FCCD41 Recolor ellipse with paint bucket tool Linear gradient transparent mode from bottom to the top of the yellow ellipse Select the yellow ellipse Apply plugin Feather Selection, radius 10 1.3. Add a new layer above Color #AD1801 Draw an ellipse. Line width 10 1.4. Gaussian blur effect with radius 30 1.5. Add a new layer above Color #AD1801 Draw an ellipse. Line width 2 1.6. Gaussian blur effect with radius 5 Merge layer down 1.7. Duplicate layer with blurred ellipses Squeeze the ellipse Merge all layers except the background layer. Part #2 Jack-o'-lantern 2.1. Add a new layer above Color - black Draw a line in the form of future smiles 2.2. Using line/curve tool (style “Filled arrow”) position the triangles along a smiles line. 2.3. You can also use the triangles and ellipse, to draw the eye. 2.4. You can use the effect – noise - Median, to make a form of the eye smooth To make the second eye, duplicate layer and flip it horizontal Merge all layers with smile and eyes (except the pumpkin and background layers). 2.5. Use the Magic wand tool Select the smile and the eyes Go to the pumpkin level and delete the selected area 2.6. You can delete the smile and eyes layer or make it invisible. We no longer need it Select all the empty space around the pumpkin Invert selection Add a new layer above the pumpkin layer Apply plugin Bevel Selection to the selected area on a new layer. 2.7. Move the layer below the layer with pumpkin Select the pumpkin ellipse form Apply Trail plugin to the selected area on a layer with bevel selection. 2.8. Merge two layers (the layer with pumpkin and the layer with bevel selection). Add a new layer below Color #FFD800 Paint the smile and eyes with Paintbrush tool 2.9. Apply Drop Shadow plugin to the pumpkin layer. That's all. Here's the resulting image.

It's all done with Gaussian blur. Unfortunately it is hard to formalise. Just try to supplement the blue ball fit details. And glow beneath the red ball looks better. Try to experiment!

I'm sorry but, what about the gray background (instead chessboard pattern) to Smudge Effect? It's really need!

Your question is a bit out of this topic. You need Animated Image plugin to make animated pictures.

I haven't used Brightness and Contrast, but you can try it. I think your image has a bigger size than my. "Gaussian blur radius 10" is not enough for your picture. Shine on your picture is not enough blur. Try to change the color of the shine. Maybe it's too bright?

Have you done this before - "5.3. Apply effect Gaussian Blur. Radius 10"?

Very nice!

I'm sorry Perhaps this topic can be deleted. If paint.net does not convert JPG independently and uses external algorithms, this discussion doesn't make sense.

By converting JPG bitmap-JPG are inevitable loss of quality?! OK, then why for JPG files created in paint.net it is not so? Make an JPG file with paint.net. Open it again. Save it as another JPG file without editing. Changing the file size will be minimal...

If you've read the first message - I DON'T add a drawing. I only save an original image with the same format. When I open a text document in Notepad and save it without editing, I get the same file size. It is logical to expect the same result from the image editor...

You think that from the original image quality 10% can be restored image quality with 100%? Logical to assume that the quality of the original image is 100%

That is, paint.net can improve bad quality? You think that this is possible? That is, an source image with poor quality stores information about perfect quality?

Quality slider is 95% If I have understood correctly, this means that the quality of new JPG should be 95% of the original JPG? (I opened the jpg file) But new file size is larger than the source file.

I take an image in JPG format. Image made probably in another editor. File size is 45 KB. I choose the menu item "Save as". I choose the JPG Format image again. New file size is 52 KB. Do you think that it's not essential? Then the absurd example. Take the same image. Let me remind you that its size is 45 KB. Image size is 900x675. I select the rectangular area in the center of the image. The size of the area is 677x523. Ctrl+Shift+X and save image. Do you think the size of the image become less? New file size is 56 KB.

If this happened, I would be very grateful! For example, this dog is made full with Smudge effect. It's so stressful for the eyes... Maybe it will be enough to make one check box "gray background"?!

What can I do? Effect Smudge. Transparent layer. When I do hard work with Smuge, it's dazzled by chessboard pattern. Is it possible to make another background instead chessboard pattern? Just grey, for example... At least as an option...

First of all, you have used other Shape 3D settings

I think something has gone wrong...

I don't select lines! I select free area around the lines. I select all free space on the layer, but not the lines...

I'm sorry! Tutorial updated: Step #2 Draw the eye and smile Create a new layer. Use Line / Curve Tool to draw the eye and smile on a new layer Use magic wand tool to select free area around eye and smile lines. BoltBait Bevel Selection using the default settings You can remove the effect around the edges of the picture. And you can not do it. Edge perhaps will not be visible. Merge layers

Wow! Super! It was very good! It was very good! I understand how you create clouds, grass and even ball . But I have no idea how to make the texture of the Castle. If this is not a secret, share one's idea...

I saw your message about the bomb here. Give you an idea how to create a glass bomb. Here's my version. I think it will be easy for you to do so, if you like it.

Thank you! It is unfortunate that I cannot call two effects sequentially ... but I can call them parallel! Thanks for the idea ...

Help please... Сan I call two effects from the CodeLab script. Two effects should be run sequentially. If I use a second time. blurEffect.SetRenderInfo(BlurParameters, new RenderArgs(dst), new RenderArgs(dst)); This does not work. Thanks in advance!