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I clicked on your link and all it showed was a little rectangular image with a black/white gradient. This place is full of tutorials which will enable you to design whatever you want regardless of how complicated it looks... with practice and patience! Cheers, V

On that basis, duplicate the layer and remove your background on this newly created layer... also remove the text where it is written over the white background. Then simply apply Drop Shadow http://forums.getpai...?showtopic=8375 Once drop shadow is put in, copy text from original layer back to this layer again... over the dropped shadow effect:

There are many ways to do this, and not every method will work well... or quickly. Another alternative to the above is using the Threshold Tool http://forums.getpaint.net/index.php?/topic/18811-ed-harvey-effects-v-35-2012-02-13/

That sounds as though you are attempting to make a vignette: http://forums.getpai...showtopic=18811

No, but it does not need to. Do a Cntrl-Shift &Print Screen to capture your screen shot. Then open up a new document in PDN. The document size will be the same size as the image you have captured to your clipboard. Then simply paste it in!

Remember to breathe! ;-) It sounds as though you might be pasting a selection and attempting to erase outside of that selection (or vice-versa) while it remains selected. Ensure that the correct area is selected, or alternatively deselect all if selection is not a criteria. Cheers, V

I wrote a post and attempted to edit it... I emphasize the word 'attempted' as I could not find an edit option anywhere. Apologies if I was being deceived by my eyes and it is there somewhere.

This should help http://forums.getpaint.net/index.php?/topic/16357-cute-monsters3/ Or fiddle with with: 1. Create a grey blob. 2. Add Noise to the blob - turn color right down and lift the other two right up. 3. Apply a combination of blurs (motion and zoom). Cheers, V

There kind of already is one! Pyro has a plugin called Trail, which is a part of a set of plugins. Along with being able to Bevel a selection you can extrude to your hearts content! Cheers, V

A quick and simple alternative is to create your text on a layer above the picture and fiddle with the blending mode in layer properties.... try reflect and/or overlay. For future reference, you may want to remember to ask questions like this in the appropriate area of the forum also (discussions & questions - as against beginner tutorials) to avoid getting jumped on! Cheers, V

I only ever get a minute on here nowadays... for what its worth, here's my 2 bobs worth: Cheers, V

It is possible and easy to do with PDN... I do not believe that any single tutorial will provide you with the answers you seek, although many tutorials will have bits and pieces that are relevant. As an example, the runner in the red shirt is created on two layers - the top layer has a slight gaussian blur and the layer underneath has a motion blur applied to it. The text again is on two layers (above the runner layers), with the bottom layer motion blurred and the top layer has a drop shadow applied to it, etc, etc. I would suggest that playing around with blurrs will give the desired results! Cheers, V

In answer to your second question, I may have an older version of the plugin. I will need to check and confirm - I am quite certain that my numbers do not go that high!!! In answer to your first question, Yes you are correct. I have edited the tutorial! Cheers. V

Yes, there are many fire/flame fonts and for my mind none of them truly represent burning font. The below is my take on realistic burning font. Mods feel free to lock this thread should you disagree that it belongs here. Thought process: The font needs to look hot and glowy. Flames need to be in front and at rear of font. The flames need to be on different levels, with different hues, sizes and opacities. My chosen font (made famous by google): Catull Font Plugins required: AA's Assistant Boltbaits Color Balance Smudge Tutorial: 1. Start with the standard PDN template and make the background black, then make layer invisible. 2. On a new layer put in your text - my fontsize is 170. 3. Select the magic wand, set flood mode to global with the tolerance set on 0 and select area outside of font. 4. Invert your selection and bevel your selection at a depth of 3. 5. Deselect and apply gaussian blur at a radius of 3. 6. Apply AA's Assistant with all three scroll bars set to far right side. 7. Duplicate layer and do steps 3 to 6 again on this new layer. 8. In layer properties set mode to negation, and merge layer down. You should have the below: 9. Make visible the black background. 10. Select color balance under adjustments and set red to 40 and yellow to 40. Yous should have the below: 11. Let us now duplicate the layer 4 times and label the font layers 1 through to 5 (bottom up). 12. Select Layer 1 and apply dents (under distort) at default setting. 13. Select layer 2 and apply dents again this time setting refraction to 80. 14. Apply motion blur at 90 degrees at a distance of 15. 15. Select layer 4 and apply dents at default setting. 16. Select color balance and set yellow to 20 and red to 20. 17. Apply motion blur at 90 degrees with distance set to 20. 18. Set Layer opacity to 85. 19. Select layer 5 and apply dents at default detting. 20. Apply motion blur at 90 degrees again, setting distance to 30. 21. Set the layer opacity to 110. You should now have the below 22. Merge down all layers (probably easier to save as a png) 23. Select the smudge tool - this part is very personal. I selected the odd point at the top of the burning letters and stretched it out. I ended up with the below: Again, feel free to close this thread if you believe that this burning font is more or less like all the other burning and fire text tutorials. Cheers, V

For me it's the plugin that does what it is supposed to do when I need it to do something. The point I am making is to download plugins as required and not simply because you can. Otherwise much like I did when I started using PDN, you end up with hundreds of plugins with no way of remembering which plugin does what!

Here's my effort:

There are many simple ways to do this (and not by pressing a button... a tad more complicated), however much is dependent upon the images in question. Can you attach an image so that specific advice can be given?

You are more or less asking for somebody to write a tutorial for you... I doubt that will occur! Without getting too involved, I would suggest that you open a new layer above your image and select the areas that you think will be covered with snow. Create clouds in the selected area's and play with the "brightness/contrast" to give you a desired snow color. You may also wish to play with "hue/saturation" somewhat. I would then apply "noise" at 0 color, and apply a light "gaussian blur", and to finish of I would apply "dents" at the desired setting to give it a swirly finish. While writing this I thought of a number of other ways to do it, so my best advice is to play around with lots of other tutorials which should fill your idea's bucket!

another option is to draw a thick light grey line on a new layer and change the layers opacity to whatever suits, and then as mountnman said, "add another layer for your script".

They are both different programs with PDN requiring the .NET framework. Having used both I would suggest that PDN is extremely user friendly whereas GIMP can get extremely confusing.

Failing is not to try. You tried and it turned out O.K.!

Added into tut.; I assumed it was a standard feature... tends to happen when you are overloaded with plugins!

I did this for a friend of mine, and thought a tutorial might come out handy for those that might need it. You will need the Metallize Plugin & Bevel Selection which is in Boltbaits pack. This is what you will be making: --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. New document @ 800 X 300 pixels 2. On a new layer create text. I've used Diavlo Black @ 192 size. 3. Set Magic Wand tolerance to zero, flood mode to global and select outside of text... then invert selection. 4. Apply a linear gradient (black & white) over selection. 5. Bevel Selection at 5. 6. Deselect and apply gaussian blur at 5. 7. Apply AA's Assistant with all settings set to far right. 8. Duplicate Text Layer and repeat the above from steps 3 through to 7... ignoring step 4. 9. In layer properties, change the mode to negation then merge layer down. 10. Select Color Balance (in adjustments) and set red to 50 and yellow to -25 11. Duplicate layer again, and in noise choose median. Drag Percentile down to zero and leave Radius on 10. 12. Select Brightness / Contrast, and change contrast to 75. 13. Go to Dents and set scale to 50 - all elsse to remain default. 14. Select gaussian blur @ 5 and then merge layer down. 15. Run AA's Assistant again at same settings as before. 16. Duplicate layer again and go to bottom text layer. 17. Again apply median, however this time change percentile to 90. 18. Go back into brightness contrast, leaving contrast at 75 and change Brightness to -20. 19. Go back into upper layer, and select dents. Set scale to 20, refraction to 40, and roughness to 100. 20. Merge layer down. 21. Apply gaussian blur at 4, and run AA's Assistant again at above settings. 22. Run Metallize. Disable Gray Scale, and choose type 1 with angle set at 305. 23. Go to dents again. Set scale to 200, refraction to 5 and roughness to 35. 24. Make background black if desired. Done!

Smudge Tool by Pyrochild.

Good orb tute, however I think the lighting and shadows give the ball a translucent effect. In the above image I have made the center of the radial gradient at the top edge of the ball and given the ball a dark shadow. I have also blurred the lighting a little. Cheers, V.