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Ok thanks guys, so the solutions just to have more ram. out of curiousity with it being installed to Program Files instead of PS x86, doesnt that mean its not a native 64bit? pretty sure i only saw the memory usage open up after using the 4GB patch on the exe, but cant remember now.

Hi, Paintnets started to crash on me like crazy lately, usually dont pay much attention cause it doesnt seem to be plugin related but just looked at the crash log and says it was a "System.OutOfMemoryException" I dont doubt it as i usually keep dozens of windows open with large image files and alotof history, but my system got 8GB installed and paintnets set to be large adress aware so wondering what the out of memory exception cap actually is, so i can watch out for it. Iirc have seen it use upto 6GB before looking at task manager but dont generally keep tabs on that without knowing what to look for heres the crashlog and fwiw, stopped emailing them in a while ago, cause i dont know how thats meant to help if theres not going to be further updates to the program and its not to recieve direct help for it - edit, just saw a mention of Paintnet 4.0, looking foward to try that

Ego, thanks for that link, I know this technique well, but didnt know Ctrl+I to invert selection, thats gonna be my favorite new shortcut goes to show closely i look at menu options Carrito, another less straightforward but possibly quicker way considering its a high quality image, is to create the same sortof template by increasing the contrast and color differences, then isolating everything else from the bike with magic wand alone. Doesnt matter if colors and details get distored, its only the outline shapes you need. Before you start, make a 2nd copy as new layer, and do the color/contrast alterations to one of them, so when youve magic wanded everything but the bike, can change layer view to the clean image and hit Copy.

the way to create the slide show is with the animated gif plugin however theres no slide show preview and Im not sure if its able to make them with variable timing the way you can add "(xxxms)" after the layer name in GIMP cause the save option doesnt have a choice to decline the single timing setup. When its saved as agif or apng, change the file extension name to .gif or .png (and vica versa to edit in Paintnet again) the way to stretch the second or third ect layers to match the background coodinates is with the Move Selected Pixels tool, by dragging (or holding + arrows keys) the circles in the image corners or sides. When they match up correctly, deselect it by pressing S (or click rectangle select) Theres some quality loss doing this btw ive allways considered 'slide show' to mean images moving horizontally or vertically, and Paintnet and GIMPs plugins dont have automated tools to make these but theyre just made by adding extra frames, so a bigger file size; Photoscape has an automated horizontal/vertical slide show tool if interested

yea a combination of feather/anti alias/object outline/blur effects might work (suggest AAs assistant from dpys plugin pack and Object Outline from Bolt Baits pack) If you dont have it as two layers allready try making the surround area a solid color like white (magic wand_backspace) then magic wand just the black and delete it, add a new layer, make it black and move it down (in the Layers window) When the results good enough, merge it onto the black layer, and delete the white surround (and if that leaves any jagges on the outer edge, use AA's assistant again)

an element missing from the example image (and mabye also the glass button plugin) is the variable transparency you get using the gradient tool and Ive not played with it much, but you might also try adding a couple layers of the gradient effect cut from different angles

no worries, once you get the hang of it, makes Paintnet that much easier

even tho this questions answered, till you understand it directly, can be hard to wrap your mind around, so figure another summary might be helpful theres 4 selection methods (Rectangle/Lasoo/Circle/Magic Wand) and 2 selection tools (Selected Pixels/Selection) Selected Pixels - affects the image itself (with move, expand, shrink, and rotate with right click tools) Selection - only affects the blue selection area (with same tools) and with the selection method, you can also reuse it to add or remove parts already selected by holding Ctrl or Alt: Ctrl adds, Alt removes The purpose of Selected Pixels is to edit the image directly, while Selection just adds features to the selection methods and its intended for copying. Finishing the operation can be confusing cause neither selection tool lets you de-select the area, you first have to switch to a selection method again, and left click anywhere on the Paintnet window

Hi thanks for this plugin pack, these are some of my favorite tools in Paintnet, but thought itd help to know i cant use "Grain" because it crashes Paintnet 3.5.10 Its not completely consistent but theres 2 out of 3 chance it'll crash when using Grain

would agree the line curve tools probably the best method along with AAs Assistant, and it really help zooming in to improve its acuracy another way when theres colors involved is enhancing the spectrum difference to alter color contrasts. for that method try Color Mixer http://forums.getpai...v12-2008-12-24/

Another method also worth using is writing things on a new layer so you can change the color and rearrange positioning afterward, and add other effect only available with transparent backgrounds

thanks again pdnnoob, will checkout how it does making agif's

right thanks for that , ill look around for some good tutes to change the lighting/shadow aspects

oh right, well google found this solution http://www.sevenforu...g-software.html itll change the right click edit option to your prefered program, and can confirm it works

sorry idont understand the distinction, or what you mean by 'this is working' my browsers the default program that opens gifs and when i wanto edit them, just right click and use 'Open with' to choose Gimp or something else but do prefer Paintnet for most image editing

you might try to remove everything except the lines to edit if you can use magic want to highlight everything but the lines, and delete the rest, then paste it into an un edited copy as new layer where you can isolate the qualities without affecting anything else. I sometimes use AAs assistant which does some interesting things with objects on a transparent background, thickening. smoothing etc but isnt perfect, object outline also isnt perfect, but effective on transparent background (find AAs assistant in this pack)

unless your using a plugin im not aware of, Paintnet cant display or create animated gifs so sortof pointless using to edit them otherwise. Try Gimp the other part to your question, how to set default program status. You do it the same way as any other file format. Right click the file and look for the "Open with" section and scroll down to "choose default program" Normally for gifs, the default programs be your default browser

Hi id like to make a texture thats got a 3d qualities (different surface depths) to appear in reverse. like an image of soap suds on a window seen from the other side: the concave bubbles would appear convex. are there any plugins for this sortof thing on Paintnet?

Hi, i use Paintnet all the time and really like how its setup, but two features id really like are 1. the option to hide/minimize the tabs and menus bars to single row for more screen realestate similar to how windows paint has hide the ribbon 2. the option to reorient all tool popup window away from center screen, 99% of the time its exactly where the image is positioned, so abit distracting As core program features I dont expect anything soon if theyre not possible with the current code, but worth suggesting. thank, Nick

thanks Zagna, id forgot about that one, does the trick i was looking for still, a line/curve equivalent where you could drag parts of a straight line selection into curves would be a handy tool aswell

hi, im allways trying to select parts of an image to highlight that are straight lines but not at 90degree angles so the square select tool is useless and ive goto use the free form lasso select thats usually impossible to get straight, are there any plugins that work similar to the line/curve tool but as a selection tool not a drawing tool. sure its possible to just rotate the whole image to correct the angle different (then after selecting return it to the original angle) but rotating images allways degrades it so not ideal another trick is line/curve around the part wanting to delete, using a contrasting color, then magic wand that and delete, but that leaves all the edge pixels behind so not ideal either i really want that line/curve tool as a selection tool, any chance it been made as a plugin?

rofl you want James Duff to look like a white guy? Dave Chappelle might have something to say about that he does some funny white guy impersonations as long as your doing it for a laugh and defintaley not racist., can superimpose a transparent white or yellow layer over it with magic wand (and lasso select) like this but use about 50points alpha transparency -that was at 80 with white

you can select the larger area, hold Alt to de-select the smaller portion copy and paste it as a new layer (Ctrl+C then Ctrl+Shift+V) open colors -> more, and set alpha transparency to about 80 fill selection (Backspace) and merge layer down (Ctrl+M) and to select additional areas of the screen without losing the previous selected area hold Ctrl

hi, i apologize for that; my intention was only to summerise how to use the clone stamp not sure where theres a step by step guide to using it on the forums

hi, could you post an image of what youve drawn and something you have in mind to look like? Trees can be hard to draw realistically depending on the type, distance from view and light one idea you could try is to get a photo of a similar tree and paste a section of its leaves onto your tree, and do some creative cloning (with the clone stamp) to mix those textures in with your tree textures, and add some of your tree texture onto the photo textures, so you end up with a mixture of the two, and then play around with hue-saturation and curves, to normalise the differences.