Red ochre

Ok - will change to preserve BGR values. Would Effects/transparency be ok.? (Render is very overcrowded, on my set up anyway). Many thanks - I have updated the .dll and the source as suggested.

? - no idea what you're on about ?

Not quite - I'd didn't manage to reference my own plugins on that one!

Try resize / then multiply the dpi by 12. do your editing . then change back before printing ? Seemed to work, but why you need it I don't know (will be in decimals of feet rather than 12ths). Just a thought.

I think you would find it much easier to start again. Hope the screenshots below help.

@ yellowman - Boltbait's 'Transparency' plugin is always useful - the only slight advantage of this, for this job, is that it is in the effects section rather than adjustments, so if used on multiple layers the icon appears in the top 'apply last effect' section. @ midora - I had'nt thought of doing it that way, clever! @ Rick - I meant no criticism of the default selection behaviour. Just thought I'd share my soloution to this task. As you can see from the code, I didn't waste too much time writing it, and now we have 4 ways to do it. @ barbieq25 - not as much fun (or as complicated) as some of my others I'm afraid, but it does what I wanted. Thanks for saying thanks.

Hi Rick, Yes you can - I think it's easier to just click on one icon and have the selection clear rather than expanding the color window, then changing the primary color - then changing it back again - I did say I would probably be the only person using it!

Selection2clear [makes the selection transparent, whilst leaving the selection active] Hello all, The problem: I spend ages isolating a complex selection, I delete the selection on one layer, move to the next layer to try to delete the same selection - but the selection is gone! (This doesn't happen with 'fill selection' - only with delete. It caused me problems because I was trying to shape a cloud made up from many layers all interacting via different blending modes. Thought I'd try just changing the top layer and then use 'Alpha mask' on the other layers but Alpha mask didn't work for some reason - maybe due to the layer blend modes or because the transparency of the different layers were not fully opaque?) The soloution: My simplest plugin yet! - select something, click 'selection2clear' (under Effects/selection), problem solved, selection clear but still active so I can now change layers and repeat the action. No UI screen shot as no UI ! I'm probably the only person that will use this but if you encounter the same problem here's the .dll And here's the code for in-depth study! /* =================================================== */ /* selection to clear*/ /* (c) 2012 Red Ochre */ /* */ /* Description: make selection transparent, plugins maintain the selection, delete doesnt */ /* */ /* ========================================== ======== */ // Name: selection2clear // Author: Red ochre (John Robbins) // Submenu: Transparency // URL: http://www.getpaint.net/redirect/plugins.html // Title: selection2clear June 2012 Red Ochre void Render(Surface dst, Surface src, Rectangle rect) { for (int y = rect.Top; y < rect.Bottom; y++) { for (int x = rect.Left; x < rect.Right; x++) { ColorBgra CurrentPixel = src[x,y]; CurrentPixel.A = 0; // now preserves BGR values as suggested by BoltBait dst[x,y] = CurrentPixel; } } }

Ah .. I misunderstood - you want the top of the letters in a straight line, only the bottom in an arch? - would think the 'liquify' plugin would be my first stop.

Seabed and Roadsigns ... both brilliant - I clicked them full size and just enjoyed them! - glad you made and shared them, thanks

Hello greyraven8, I would recommend the 'circle text' plugin http://forums.getpaint.net/index.php?showtopic=16347 to create the text in a semi- circle on it's own layer. Then use 'rotate/zoom' (under layers heading) to manipulate the semicircular text into a semi-ellipse. [You may find it easier to first distort the bridge into a semi-circle - then add the text layer - then distort back to the origianal shape.] Reflecting this shape can be done by duplicating the text layer - then flipping the layer over a horizontal axis (under layers) - then lining it up with rotate/zoom layer again. Hope that helps - and that my explaination is understandable!

Many thanks, Thanks for publishing the codelab code too, and your clipboard code in the tutorials is really useful as well.

Hello all! Thanks for all the positive remarks (and the encouragement you've given me with the plugins too). @Helen - many thanks - I'm really a 'Surrey-ale- ist' meaning I live in Surrey and prefer ale to lager @EER - I was going to go on at length about the role of Iron oxide based pigments in sacred cave art - thruth is, I tried Englishred - but the username was taken - (red ochre = English red = Venetian red = sanguine = rust = blood etcetc). @Jim - thanks - I prefer the control of pencil too - hence trying to evolve a technique of scanning in drawings then manipulating them. - your photo manip's are great btw. @Barbieq25 - thanks - I'm not really wicked but decided to play up to it since 'rock'nroll' misread my username as red ogre! @doughty - thanks too - Re: colour(color?)/mood - I find sometimes less is more - if you start from a very muted palette of colours you've always got somewhere left if you need something brighter + always good to experiment. @welshy - hope that shoulder gets better soon - glad your using 'overblur' - used a bit of that on the figures in 'evensong' to try to get a metallic feel. To all - it was your galleries that showed me what a powerful program this is - many thanks

Hello all, I've been using PDN for ages now!. Here is my gallery. The order is roughly newest nearest the top. All done with PDN. I don't use stock images, do sometimes use my own photos, sometimes draw on paper and scan images in and I do use my own plugins! (link in sig). A big thank you to Rick for creating the program, and all the plugin writers, admins and artists that share their knowledge on the forum. Clickable thumbnails (hopefully). Older ones below here------------------------------------------------------------ Thank you for visiting, drop by again. Feel free to comment, question and criticise ...(please don't drag me off to the witch-ducking stool - it's only meant as fun!).

Another 'Please don't drop the rotate/zoom' - It is extremely useful!

Hello ShadowHunter12, You should read this recent thread http://forums.getpai...__fromsearch__1 If you need to change the transparency of a layer you can either use the slider in the layer properties window(F4 I think), or BoltBait has a simple transparency plugin in his pack too. Hope that helps!

Hello Robyn and Evgirl, Just thought I'd add it's probably best to have the logo saved as a .png file as you can have a transparent background - meaning the logo doesn't have to be a rectangle. - I'd recommend pushing F1 in PDN and reading about layers too.

Hello Dug, No-one is older than teabags - they grow that way don't they! I just tried the gallery link in your sig but it seems to be broken? Many thanks for the encouragement with my plugins. Now - your gallery ... brilliant - I've been meaning to say that for months. I particularly like the the recent ones especially 'crash landing','Rock quail' and 'Intergalactic scrapyard'. You're getting a nice surrealist feel to them, which I love. And I think your sense of colour (color?) is improving too - some of the very early ones were a bit too garish for me, but you seem to have more control now. Technically you're doing some pretty impressive stuff - very inspiring - keep up the good work!

Sorry BoltBait - I didn't realise you where so case-sensitive - and who is Miss Pelled anyway? Thanks barbieq25, silvercaper and EER All the best Red', Red Ocher, Red ochre, Red Ogre !

Gradients Galore MAJOR update: I have added even more new gradient shapes and generally improved the effect. The latest version is in my v10 plugin pack here: Red ochre v10 plugin pack It still works for Pdn 3.5.11. Here are some examples. Enjoy! Firstly I would like to thank BoltBait for his encouragement to use HSV gradients and dithering in this plug-in. And also for the work he has put into maintaining codelab and its tutorials, without which I wouldn't be able to write plug-ins at all! So what's wrong with the built in gradient tool? Absolutly nothing! - however, it can be a bit fiddly to line up a perfectly perpendicular gradient over the full length of the canvas - and plugins have the wonderful ability to 'remember' their last settings too (ideal for repeated tasks). This plug-in produces a wide variety of gradient effects, with:- choice of shapes, to act as 'vignette' type filters; ellipse, good old 'squirkle', diamond etc. choice of direct transition methods; linear,cosine & sinh. variable dithering (I've left a large range here because I like some of the extreme effects especially if zoom or motion blur is used afterwards). I've found normal smooth dithering is achieved around a value less than 15. HSV rainbows, clockwise and anti clockwise. my own BGR spectra, (6 variants). These can give some interesting tertiary colour spectra, (try grey to grey). an ability to write on objects only, (quick way to do rainbow text). sliders to set start and end transparency, (useful for 'filter' layers). swap colours. use the source image as the primary color,(useful for transparency gradients). angle slider (rotation around canvas centre). It works well inside selections and the gradients can be rotated too. Pictures speak louder than words, so I hope the screen shots help. Any feed back appreciated - I haven't put this in my pack yet so if anything needs changing please let me know. Have fun with this and post any interesting creations here - Enjoy!

Hello 88keys, If you just want to 'paint' with a transparent colour then there is a slider in the 'more' section of the color window. If you want to replace an existing color with transparency, you could try my 'Recolour choice' plugin here... http://forums.getpaint.net/index.php?/topic/24584-recolour-choice-new/ or in my pack (link in sig). Or you could use the magic wand to select, then fill selection (with the transparent color as described above). - I'm sure there are many other ways too!

Elvish Presley ?

Hello TommyToxen, You sound frustrated ! - I'll do my best to help. 1.Are you putting text on a new layer? - it's best to, as this makes it easier to move later. 2. If you have a 'selection' active (highlighted pale blue), you can only work within that selection. - Try Edit/ deselect. 3. If you are moving things and revealing the 'chequer board' pattern (represents transparency), then you've probably put everything on one layer? 4.If everything dissappears when you click in the history window - you've probably clicked on the undo all icon instead of the undo last thing icon. These explainations are just my guesses - but if you read through the help files (press the F1 key) and get to understand layers, i think you'll solve most of your problems. If not, then ask again - all programs take some getting used to. I can assure you this is a very well designed and capable program and the problems you have described don't sound like a major problem with the program. But, as ever, I could be wrong! All the best (don't kick the monitor in either!)

Hello Fabian 13, You could use the 'custom brushes mini' plugin.(First you must install it).Then make a black/white/transparenet brush and save it as a .png file to your brushes folder. Or if you prefer the line tool - draw in black on a transparent layer, duplicate it, invert the colour then move it with the move tool and arrow buttons. Good luck!

Hello Reed, It shows up when you go to save and select the .ico file type. Hope that helps.