Red ochre

@MJW's paste from clipboard is also useful for this.

Me too now! 😄 Good work Pixey!

@odam - welcome to the forum! Your question should really be in the discussions and questions section - or even developer's central if you plan to write your own plug-in. @null54 is technically correct regarding 'selection', however it is possible to 'detect' pixels within a colour range and set all other pixels to transparent. There are quite a few plug-ins that can already do this including my own (ancient) Recolour choice Try searching the plug-in index here: https://forums.getpaint.net/topic/15260-plugin-index/

This https://forums.getpaint.net/topic/121378-bold-brushstrokes-v12-dec-17-2022/ looks like your best starting point to me. Possibly combine with a higher contrast version. I doubt it will be a one stop instant effect... unless it's a P.S. effect run through Pdn?

@DynamoKnight Did you right click/Extract the zip file? @Pixey and @BDP - I doubt if the '.pdb' file is required either. Wiki definition

1. Fill the background with a non grey colour. 2. Make a transparency gradient with the gradient tool. 3. Adjustments/Hue/Saturation... shift Hue... Rainbow! Just tested on portable a5.0.8361.33457 (not the latest, sorry) Does not happen using 4.3.12

Just tested the new version... no crashes!... useful and fun too. Thanks for the update and thanks to @null54 for his single-threaded suggestion.

Perhaps a G.D.I+ graphics object is not being disposed of correctly? - just a long shot guess! If so, wrapping them in 'using' blocks often helps. I'm not an expert but there are some extremely knowledgeable and helpful plugin experts on this forum. If you can't find the problem, do consider starting a thread in the developer central section. In my experience, sometimes fresh eyes can spot problems in code that the author can't see.

Initially very impressed but sadly it crashed paint.net - without any useful crash information. On Pdn 4.3.12, opened the effect, looked good!, changed to rough stroke - looked even better, increased "chonkyness" - Pdn just closed? Re opened Pdn and looked at the crash log but nothing listed under Exception details? I really hope you can find the bug as it is potentially a very useful artistic effect.

Just installed the thumbnail extension - works for me!

I see @midora previously suggested the "Brush Factory" plugin. I think Dynamic draw is it's successor. Dynamic Draw with angle jitter can imitate a spray quite well if you create a transparent .png brush with just a few opaque pixel sized dots on it.

My apologies - I misunderstood. I do find the color wheel left/right click inconsistency the most frustrating thing in an otherwise extremely well designed U.I.

But it doesn't ? Right click on the color wheel selects the primary color as does a left click. The ink dropper tool uses left to set primary and right to set secondary (as expected) ...but the color wheel doesn't - unfortunately. Perhaps I've misunderstood.🤪 Happy birthday.

Too slow again! but I've written it now.😃 No disrespect meant toward @midora but 'Print it' has never worked for me - not even on Pdn 3.5.11! - Perhaps it just doesn't like my Epson printer. I also find the Window's print dialogue, which Pdn uses, horribly confusing. I find the most accurate way of printing to the size I want is to create/re-size the image in Pdn at 300 d.p.i (or 300 pixels per inch), save as .png, then open in Windows Word and print from there. The size that Pdn reports at 300 d.p.i is accurate but sometimes changes slightly (eg. 299.95) due to some unfathomable calculation🙄. My version of MS Word is 2007 so I expect things have changed on more recent versions! However, when I insert a picture in Word, this brings up the 'Picture Tools' menu. From there you can set the size to 100% and it will show the output size accurately - hopefully the same as created in Pdn. I would expect more recent versions of Word to work in a similar way or possibly try the free 'Open Office' software? Good luck - often best to print at draft quality on cheap paper first to save ink in case of mistakes!

I think @drheller1 is after ways to create the patterns created when sword steel is repeatedly folded. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damascus_steel I would start by running the built-in clouds effect, then try my Artistic/Contour effect (in my pack), then distort this pattern by stretching and or tiling it. My Distort/Aardvark and @Pyrochild's Tools/Liquify could be useful.

Thanks to those who gave this theme a try - great results from all!

Yes, do stay safe!

My guess liquify Apologies - I didn't see that @MJW had posted that already.

1. Download the .zip file (may require your browser opening a new tab, to do this). 2. Right click then Scan it with Microsoft Defender... assuming all safe, continue.Never sure if Defender does this automatically with downloads? 3. Right click and choose 'Extract all'... then 3.a close Pdn. 4. Copy and paste the whole folder called 'Parallel Lines' into the Pdn/Effects folder. This contains the 'OptionBased' based stuff and the .dlls etc. 5.Restart Pdn. Hope that helps! (hope it works for you too) ... I've just done this and it works for me. @midora really should tidy up the installation instructions!🤨 Sadly I don't think Parallel Lines will allow you to specify the breaks in a dotted line - I believe it is dependant upon line width when using G.D.I.+... but may be wrong.

Many thanks to @lynxster4 & @Pixey for keeping this thread going! - Rude for me not to participate with this theme 😁, so a little surrealist experiment 🤪. In all honesty, if you enjoy T.G.A. you must check out @MJW's height map effects, which are capable of much higher quality output.

Many thanks for sharing the well annotated code! - The comments make it much easier to see what's going on. Thanks to Aretha too.🙂

Welcome to the forum @Elix Exo If you look at the first post of the Grid warp thread it states that you can use an image as a background image https://forums.getpaint.net/topic/25327-grid-warp/ 1. Have the layer you wish to warp as the top layer. 2. Hide this layer and move to the layer below. 3. Edit/Select all, then Edit/Copy Merged. This places your composite background or reference image in that piece of memory called the clipboard. 4. Return to the layer you wish to warp, unhide it and open Tools/ Grid warp. 5. Click on the back ground and select clipboard image. Hope that helps

That could be very informative. The colour coded parenthesis look very useful too... previously I would add a comment e.g.. "// end inner loop"... it's so easy to get it wrong, then the errors disappear and you can't see where you have gone wrong.

First post, page one, nine lines down... it's in my plugin pack ... link in my sig too😉