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Oh yes, my mistake. Thank you for this advice. I wasn't knowing that only Rick Brewster was working on Paint.NET, I was thinking a team was formed. And well yes I should have said "Hello Rick" Thank you, and thanks to EER for his workaround.

Thank you for this reply. I was unclear about this being a feature request, not a "how to do it". Sorry.

Ohhh ! easy man. Even if I surely know nothing about the internals of the Paint.NET program, being myself a developer and having myself made the thing make me confident about the way it works for any paint program that does a mouse stroke between two consecutive points. Whatever the internals are. Holding SHIFT to stroke between two different position is nothing to do, you just have to record the last button down mouse position to do so. So I maintain that its easy to implement, and that most of it is certainly already present in Paint.NET. Period.

I know its easy to implement because I did it in a small paint like program. You can repeat a tool's stamp along a line, and I guess it is already the way it is done for pen/brush/eraser strokes between two mouse positions. Because two consequent mouse positions can be distant of a given segment, which can be really long, you have to "fill" between, that is to draw a line of your tool's stamp. With the SHIFT key modifier you only "simulate" a mouse stroke between two distant point. I don't know if I'm clear, but it's easy to do because I guess 98% is already implemented in Paint.NET. I don't want to draw a line using the line tool. I want to use any tool to draw the line, like the pen, the brush or the eraser tool, or any other future tool. And when I draw, I don't want to switch to line drawing, setting a blending mode, a size or so that is similar to my tool's setting, then drawing my line and switch back to my tool to continue my drawing. This is a question of user friendly interface. I want to use the pen, hold shift and click somewhere to draw a line, and voila. This is the same user friendly idea that gave us the eraser tool, which is nothing more than a pen with a substractive alpha blending. But an eraser tool is so much user friendly than having to set a negative alpha in the color palette to erase pixels :-) IMHO, anyone who have done some pixel art or icon drawing or so uses this feature a lot. I do, on Photoshop. Anyway thank you for this reply, I guess it leads to clarify this feature request. Bye.

Hi fellow painters, Would it be possible to have an option that allow color picking to pick document's pixel's color, rather than current layer's color with its opacity ? I really never want to pick a color from a single layer. I always want to pick the color I see, and without its opacity, the one that result from the blend of all layer on the document's pixel on which I pick the color. Thank you ! Bye.

Hi there, I really like Paint.NET and I'm trying to use it instead of my photoshop «not very legal» version. There is a feature I really appreciate in Photoshop and GIMP which is the ability to draw a line using pen/brush/eraser/any tool using the SHIFT modifier key. This really miss me in Paint.NET. You click somewhere, you move the cursor elsewhere, holding SHIFT you click again, and (using the tool you currently have selected) a perfect line is drawn between the two points. I know this feature is easy to implement, and it would be really appreciated. Remember, it is not only for pen or brush, but any brush-like tool (eraser, smoothing, feather, etc.). I search the forum for this feature request but found nothing related, the current version havent it and the feature list does not contain it. Thank you for your great work ! Bye.