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Cat Ootf Object backgrounds?... We don't know if a viewer is using a dark or light theme for the forum and many browsers do not display transparency consistently either. A black cat with black whiskers won't look very good against a black background! Coal-shed, snowstorm etc. Please can we include a simple background? Sometimes more complex backgrounds are intrinsic to the image too? eg. Versus The concept of an 'object' normally works for things like text but makes no sense for anything remotely realistic... basically anything that reflects light! I suggest the competition should become 'Image of the fortnight' as default, perhaps with occasional 'object' themes and rules? I'll post some cats with backgrounds but if they break the rules I'm quite happy to be barred from the competition. The practice and challenge has been very useful and enjoyable! A fun theme and very interesting to see other's approaches and techniques. Happy new year for Monday

I was hoping for a way to save the settings of all the (indirectUI) effects/adjustments used in a session, not relying on a particular effect having a its own way of saving. Actually @Null54 kindly added some code to my Scribble effect to allow saving settings in .xml but that was done using Visual studio and Windows forms, as I remember, it was 10 years ago!...11th post on this page: Null54's Scribble src code ... but many thanks for your example code too! ...Sadly I haven't really got the spare time to experiment and learn/re-learn at the moment.☹️ I believe a way to save settings for existing indirectUI effects/adjustments would be far broader and more useful.

Would a global 'File/export settings' and 'File/import settings' be possible? (to save all the tokens for effects/adjustments used in that session). I've no idea whether that is practical or how much work would be involved but saving all changed settings at once may be easier for the user and avoid appending a tool bar to each Effect's Indirect U.I. Any standardised method of saving effect settings using IndirectU.I. would be greatly appreciated!

The forum changed years ago to only display images with SSL link addresses. I edited the important images by changing the 'http' to 'https' but left the others as clickable links for those that were interested... they still work... and are SSL as they are hosted on Photobucket... just not displayed (probably better for page load time).

Welcome to the forum @VojtaSkaroupka You could try this with the reverse option checked - if I'm understanding correctly what you're trying to achieve.

Well remembered!

Hi @Pixey and @Tactilis Regarding thumbnails: This has been happening for ages, for me... with '.png' and sometimes with '.webp'. Pretty sure it's a Windows bug as it is Windows explorer displaying the thumbnails. It will often change the colour of transparency in the thumbnail depending on the size of the thumbnail too. Often changing its mind about whether to use black or white whilst other thumbnails in a folder are loading! Very annoying as a folder displaying black objects against a black (transparent) background is utterly pointless!☹️ The actual colour values of the pixels seem irrelevant. BGRA = 255,255,255,0 or BGRA = 0,0,0,0 makes no difference, I think it depends on the weather!🤪 I've just tested a folder full of images, all created in the same way and all are 'webp' and all have backgrounds BGRA = 255,255,255,0. Displaying as 'Medium-sized' icons half are diplayed with a black background and half with white? 'Large' and 'Extra large' display all with white backgrounds (correct) and 'Small' just doesn't bother trying to display the image thumbnail at all! Windows 10 just doesn't like .webp! Different ways of saving does seem to make a difference. In Pdn an image saved as .png will often display A = 0 as black but the same image saved using the optipng plugin displays A = 0 as white. I know this doesn't help solve the problem but sometimes a good rant helps!😄

Try installing this file type plugin https://forums.getpaint.net/topic/117086-scalable-vector-graphics-filetype-alternative-plugin-svg-svgz/ Note: It is a file type plugin and shows the U.I. (where you set parameters) when saving your image as an .SVG

I don't think the built-in Stylize/Outline is really designed for outlining objects. https://www.getpaint.net/doc/latest/EffectsStylizeMenu.html As @Lemonade suggests try a plugin for outlining 'objects' or possibly selections. I think @pyrochild and @BoltBait have good ones.

Hi @Pixey - same for me with the main link - just says page not found BUT I found the download by following the source code link here. https://github.com/0xC0000054/pdn-gmic/releases/tag/v3.3.1 (Gmic_Win64.zip) Installed, updated and found the new twisted rays and it worked!

Makes sense - thanks for the explanations.

I didn't know about that!🙂 https://www.w3schools.com/cssref/pr_text_letter-spacing.php

Many thanks for sharing! - great fun to use. You're clearly an accomplished programmer, so, if you have the time and inclination... 1. Would it be possible to adapt your algorithm to use logarithmic spirals? 2. Have you considered other branching patterns eg. L-system.(tree branching - many options) 3. Really not meaning to self-promote but please consider the ideas in these two effects of mine, which perhaps could suggest relevant ideas? (If I had the programming ability and time I would explore this avenue further but would love someone more competent to put the work in 😉) Flourish, Dryad

It could be that analysing thousands of images is an intrinsic part of the process?... So unlikely to be possible in Pdn. Fascinating images!... I haven't got a clue what the algorithm is doing.

LinkedIn crops your square image to a circle for the profile picture. You have very little choice in how images appear on their site generally (well I don't with a free account!). So if they want you to have a square logo that's probably what you get.🙄... as far as I know. This link has some useful info... https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/fully-comprehensive-linkedin-size-guide-images-video-sarah-clay and good luck!

Could the 'Text Metric' setting be different for each? one using 'Points' and the other 'Fixed'. https://www.getpaint.net/doc/latest/TextTool.html

The built-in clone stamp tool maybe what you are after https://www.getpaint.net/doc/latest/CloneStamp.html There also also two plug-ins worth trying: and

Well - I agree but just thinking of ways to better inform new users. I'm sure there are many better solutions. I'd consider going even smaller and a translucent background... just ideas! Earlier there were 149 guests and one signed in user - so all are being directed to the top of the install documents page... and TLDR (as the youngsters say), so will only see the classic effects folder location. @Pixey- you are a moderator so may not see what newer users do and @Panchdara, possibly, If like me, you delete cookies and history, which keeps the browser more responsive but messes with some sites. It may be why you still see the banner when logged in? And YES I'm trying to be light-hearted. If users are in the habit of installing things without checking what they are doing, then the risks are greater than non functioning plug-ins. No wish to annoy anyone!🙂... and I realise altering anything is risky and a pain!

I notice the banner 'How to install plug-ins' disappears when you log into the forum, perhaps that's why @wolfwoman missed the difference in location? Perhaps two permanent, prominent but small banners "Install plug-ins Store" and "Install plug-ins Classic", linked to the correct paragraph in the docs? ... or is that overkill!🙄😄

On page 2 @TechnoRobbo states "I increased the AA to 3X Super-Sampling", so I believe the result is anti-aliased by default but the preview is low resolution... but I could be wrong!

Depends on its speed and the local gravitational field 🤪😄

@Ignoul André Welcome to the forum. Create a new layer above the text, set the blend mode to Multiply, and use the brush on this layer. (other blend modes may suit better). Press F1 when paint.net is open and it will take you to documentation. Note: This forum is for 'paint.Net' not for Microsoft's 'paint'.