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Quick @BoltBait, re-post your suggestion here and delete the comments in the "entry" topic before @lynxster4, as the competition host, slaps your hand and sends you to stand in the corner 😎

A big thank you to @Pixey for hosting. Congratulations to deserved winners @MJW, @Pixey and @welshblue. I think the "Kingston" entry is the best of an an excellent bunch and I'm pleased it won first place. I, too, was pleased with my SinDusk image when I created it, but I'm not surprised it came last 🙂 After I posted it, it did not look right but I could not figure out why. I then realised that I had turned and twisted it so much before adding the drop shadow that the perspective/geometry went all wrong. I meant to re-post a better version but never got around to it. @Pixey was generous enough to let us vote for 3 😁 Lately, I seem to keep running out of up-votes often. I'll need to revisit soon.

Also, it has somehow been moved to general discussion instead of the Plugins forum. Hopefully one of the moderators will be able to fix this.

Thank you @lynxster4. Congratulations @welshblue and @Pixey. I love the Out of Africa entry, i thought it would do better.

Before anything else, press Ctrl+D and try using any of the tools again. Is this really a "Paint.net crashes" topic? And does it belong in "Troubleshooting & Bugs"?

It's not mine @lynxster4. It's just something I lifted off the web for a quick demonstration. Nice use of the Contour plugin. I forgot of the EdgeShader plugin, thank you for reminding me.

I know nothing about Photoshop, I never used it. Judging from the end result you aim for, I think what you need is @Red ochre's Object edges plugin. For more detail and control of the result, you may also use @BoltBait's Inner Shadow plugins (both the one under the Object and the one under the Selection Effects sub-menus). For this example I used Object Edges, Object Inner Shadow, Surface Blur (to better blend the two colours) and then Posterize (to un-smooth the gradient). Instead of using Posterize, similar results may also be achieved by saving in the JPEG format, at low quality settings.

Impressive result @Pixey. Thank you for your kind words 🙂

Now that I've had a good play with the plugin (and finally got to like it), I think I understand what the ampersand is for. The two text snippets are meant to be read as one phrase, i.e. "minimum of current alpha & shades of gray on clipboard" 😁

This tutorial was encouraged by the discussion on the Simulate old bw photo printing system topic. @Carla initiated the discussion and brought the style to my attention. @Eli, @Pixey, @MJW, @Ego Eram Reputo, @toe_head2001 and @welshblue contributed advice on the technique and encouraged the writing of this tutorial. A simpler, faster method by @MJW of achieving the same results is described on this post of the same topic. The original poster can be found at https://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/questions/84987/how-to-do-line-optical-illusion-art-effects and https://www.pinterest.com/pin/523684262920581246/. The tutorial will help PDN users create images in the same style as the original poster, for example: Plugins needed: @MadJik's Light Rays @BoltBait's Paste Alpha and Object Tools, both part of BoltBait's Plugin Pack for PdN v4.2.12. Procedure - 10 easy steps Result: Examples using different grids/patterns: Need more? Download PDF: Shigeo_Fukuda_tutorial.pdf This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

This one is newer and offers better control on letter spacing (plus a few other options:

So be it. I'd bet it was hardware 🤣

That would be great. Let's see what ideas you can implement. For the first time ever, I think, I run out of upvotes. I'll need to remember to return to this topic tomorrow.

"Shigeo Fukuda's Mona Lisa" style? https://www.pinterest.com/pin/523684262920581246/

A quick google search gives different results.

I turns out I gave a link to the wrong version of Alpha Mask plugin. On the topic for v2, it says that it may not work anymore on newer versions of PDN, but it does work for me on v4.2.13, so I corrected the link in my post above to direct to v2 of the plugin. However, I know people may be put off by the moderator's warning, so I intended to link to Paste Alpha, as alternative. In my original post (which I have now edited), I even wrote "alternative..." but then forgot to type it in before I posted my reply. (I know it's better to use @BoltBait's plugin (if only for the reason that it's being actively supported) but I fell in love with @Illnab1024's plugin the first time I used it and I refuse to give it up. I'll stick with it for as long as it works for me). @Pixey, exactly! That's what I meant when I wrote "create your black grid/lines/rays on a transparent background". I should have explained it better. I have now edited my original post and added clarifications. It should now be easy to create the mask using the Switch Alpha to Gray plugin. I'm sorry for the confusion I've caused. @Carla, is everything clear now? Have you managed to create the image you wanted? Perhaps @MJW's simpler method with fewer steps is all you need. @MJW, impressive result with minimal fuss! I wish I was proficient enough on PDN to have come up with it myself, but I'm not. @Ego Eram Reputo, if it's OK with you, I think this can be the very first tutorial I publish. Credit to @Pixey and @MJW of course, for identifying the steps that need extra attention.

https://thirdmonk.net/postcont/2013/12/Mr-Bean-Pictures-1.jpg https://ec.europa.eu/education/sites/education/files/eit-coronavirus-header.jpg

As above, only I used Noise -> Median instead of Rubber Stamp.

Start with an object on its own layer (a graphic on a transparent background). On a new layer, create your black grid/lines/rays on a transparent background (clarification: this needs to be black lines on transparency). Use, for example, Light Rays (clarification: in which case the secondary colour alpha should be set to 0). On a copy of your grid/lines/rays layer, run Switch Alpha to Gray to create an alpha mask. Copy the mask layer to the clipboard. Delete (or hide) the mask layer. Use Alpha Mask on the object layer or Paste Alpha. Use Outline Object on the object layer. Depending on your image and preference, some alternatives are Drop Shadow, Edge Expander, 1px Expansion. Optional: Merge grid/lines/rays layer with the outlined object layer and run the Rubber Stamp plugin. EDIT: Edited the link to @Illnab1024's the Alpha Mask plugin (there is a warning on the plugin topic that it may not work with newer versions pf PDN but it works fine on my v4.2.13). Added link to @BoltBait's Paste Alpha. Clarified the that the grid should be black lines on transparency.

I think it's because you have set PDN as the default programme to open these files. This is also the case on my PC. If, however, you right-click on a png or tiff file and choose properties, it'll show the "png" or "tif" extension. Your files are not changed in any way. What you see is just File Explorer telling you that, if you double-click this particular file, it will open within PDN.

I think the best font you can get to display at such a small size is Visitor TT2. This was (is?) the standard font for userbars, when userbars were the standard for signature graphics.