Red ochre

The instructions for the store version are here (near the bottom of the page). https://www.getpaint.net/doc/latest/InstallPlugins.html Good luck ... and welcome to the forum!

Am I barking up the wrong tree?... or just barking! relevant to the image above but irrelevant if that's not what you want

Adjustments 😉 Just select the area you intend to change... or add a frame subsequently. Rectangle select is very useful!

One step!😉 Two tone threshold

Alpha Threshold worth a try! - Sorry the images have been sabotaged by the terrible image hosts.

A kind and well meant offer but it does not solve the problem of people forgetting the settings of, often a succession, of effects. Personally I don't find this a great problem but if it needs solving then a 'global' solution seems best. What about the 99% of effects without a save settings option?

Very impressive marble images from all this comp!

Adding a save option to a default U.I. effect means rewriting it - a ton of extra work for a very minor benefit. Only a few plug-ins have this option (including my 'Scribble'...Null54 did the difficult bits!). Personally I never use the option and I don't think newer users would either... or would forget to save or where they saved it! An ability to record and save effects and adjustments used, with settings used in 'history' order, would be extremely useful. I suspect this could be done via a plugin but is way beyond me. The ideal solution would be for Rick to create an option to save the history (including effect & adjustment settings) along with the Pdn file. Sadly, I very much doubt he would have the time even if he approves of the idea.

Very likely to be 'Helix' I.M.O. - Could take a lifetime to get the same settings so it could be easier just to remove the logo and add lines in the gaps?

Hi Vagabondi, Glad to see you making good use of Two-tone threshold! Impressive snow effect achieved in the first one. Many thanks for posting the example images and thanks for saying thanks!🙂

What? Red - surely you jest 😄 ShapeMaker has the close path feature and as many nodes as you like. Curing the mis-match between the shape created and what appears on the layer would be appreciated!... I meant to back-up my reasoning on the 7th of the 16th! ... but thought you'd think it was just sour grapes. A line width adjustment within the the effect will also be very useful if drawing to the current layer (or default to line-width 1px if you don't want to add to the U.I.) and when re-opening the effect, ideally the bitmap background will line up with the vector image in memory... not sure whether the effect should take the layer's/selection aspect ratio or just clip to a square? Thanks for your ongoing input!

So I sign in to quote this thread in relevance to the shapemaker thread and it asks me to do the CAPTCHA ordeal and squashes my post?☹️ Draw on canvas is currently broken (position mis-match) and needs a line width adjustment within the effect. I'm pleased TH has posted that he will address the issue.😉

Thanks for posting the puffin, Vagabondi!😉 Great to see you exploring 'Scribble's' possibilities.

A Vettriano vibe perhaps... what's her secret?

@E.E.R - I should have looked harder...who would expect it to be in a logical place!😉 @Old Banshee (Frank) You cannot select directly by shape but you could select all shape-A's, for instance, then save that selection for later use. (See E.E.R's links). Your method of colouring the selections as objects and saving on another layer my be just as good for one image.

Great new images! - I particularly like the coloured tree 'texture' created in 'the bridge' image. Always enjoyable to see your latest creations.

Additionally, selections can be copied (Edit/Copy Selection) then pasted into a text program such as 'notepad' and saved as an '.xml' '.json' (Edit by Rick: it's actually JSON, not XML) file. They can then be re-used at a later date by copying the .xml text in notepad then using 'Edit/Paste Selection'. They remain 'vectors' until committed to the canvas - as I understand. @E.E.R. - I couldn't find this in the documentation - but I didn't search for long ;-) @old banshee - well worth reading through the docs though (press F1 while Pdn is open).

Cuboids Use on an opaque layer then reduce face opacity in the effect and play with the settings.

Thank you for the Galleria nomination Vagabondi - very much appreciated. Belated happy new year to all too.

Thanks Seerose! Merry Christmas to you too 🎅

Quadrilateral Correction works well.

Thanks Remake! Thanks Welshblue! - Very reassuring comments... Glad to know traditional oil painting is still appreciated in a world where 'gaffer' taping a banana to a gallery wall is considered art!🤪 More money than sense

Hi Vagabondi, thanks for commenting. Time is always the problem. I must upload more recent ones, sometime. I've also got some more effects that need work. It took ages creating a website for my real paintings too: Here if you are curious. That sounds like I'm complaining - I'm not! (Learning to code in Paint.net has helped to learn html/CSS and may help when the computers finally take-over! 🙄) It was meant to be a driftwood tree stump btw but a dragon is more fun. Water, particularly rivers and seas do fascinate me... analogy of emotion? possibly. Life (and time) are still mysteries to me but all images need light and dark. Many thanks for the compliments, happy Christmas (Or however you mark mid-winter)...and seasons greetings to all.

Unbeleafable! 😉

Boltbait's Floyd-Steinberg dithering?