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I have installed 4.0.19, and it appears that Paint.NET does not support overwrite blending mode yet. Am I missing something here? Additional Info below ------ Application paint.net 4.0.19 (Final 4.19.6484.39094) Build Date Monday, October 2, 2017 Install type Classic Hardware accelerated rendering (GPU) True Animations True DPI 96.00 (1.00x scale) Language en-US OS Windows 10 x64 (10.0.15063.0) .NET Runtime 4.0.30319.42000 Physical Memory 32,678 MB CPU Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-6850K CPU @ 3.60GHz Speed ~3598 MHz Cores / Threads 6 / 12 Features DEP, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, SSSE3, SSE4_1, SSE4_2, XSAVE Video Card NVIDIA Quadro K4200 Dedicated Video RAM 4,062 MB Dedicated System RAM 0 MB Shared System RAM 16,339 MB Vendor ID 0x10DE Device ID 0x11B4 Subsystem ID 0x109610DE Revision 161 LUID 0x0000DFB1 Flags None Outputs 1 Video Card Microsoft Basic Render Driver Dedicated Video RAM 0 MB Dedicated System RAM 0 MB Shared System RAM 16,339 MB Vendor ID 0x1414 Device ID 0x008C Subsystem ID 0x00000000 Revision 0 LUID 0x0000E869 Flags Software Outputs 0 -----

They are not similar software at all. If I wanted to compare similar software, I would compare it to GIMP since without using Photoflow plugin, everything about GIMP is destructive besides transparency mask feature. Even so with Photoflow, you are doing the work with Photoflow, not GIMP. Krita is more aimed for painting, but it seen uses for photography purely for the fact that it offers nondestructive editing, and multiple color support, and you can even assign color space to different paint layer. Paint.NET only has destructive workflow. Non-destructive workflow is essentially a workflow where you can manipulate images without permanently altering information. Higher bits colors won't stop you from permanently altering information.

Putting text into a new layer is not what I'm talking about. I'm talking about having a textbox outside of the working space where you can store note, but it is prominent. This is great for providing .pdn template and tutorial without a intrusive layer.

I know one can just type in Paint.NET to make sort of note, but I'm more of thinking about a textbox where you can type in notes without intrusive layers or having to use notepad. It'll make it easier for users of other programs to convert from their respective file format to .pdn to get similar effects, and sharing templates with instructions will allow users to replicate styles of other images.

It actually is filter layer/mask. 3 widely known raster image manipulation/painting software has those - Krita, Photoshop, and Affinity Photo. Krita is the only free and open source application of the three aforementioned programs. GIMP-Painter, Photoflow are obscure softwares for now. Inkscape also support nondestructive editing, but it is a vector software. To expand on my point: 1)Krita offers filter masks applicable to all layer types, and filter layer only affect groups or the overall rendered images unless passthrough is enabled for a layer 2)Photoshop offers filter layer and filter masks. However, filter masks are only applicable to smart objects. 3)Affinity Photo probably likely works similar to Krita.

It works very well, I think this problem has been resolved.

The TR's Fish Eye was definitely the one I was looking for. Now, the reverse isn't what I'm looking for. But, I think TR"s Fish Eye can be manipulated to get the reverse direction as the source code is released there. In Photoshop, you have the option to do the reverse direction of spherize, not fixing it.

I have attempted to replicate the effect on a 3D program, I think I am finding one thing. It appears the spherize works by not scaling the sphere, but rather lowering the elevation of a sphere, and lowering the y location of the sphere, and then scaling until it fits well, and finally apply reflection. That's probably how the the spherize effect in Photoshop works. For the reverse direction, it works in the reverse of this.

These I've tried, still not quite the same. My option seem to be using a 3D program as a work around to get the same effect.

I'm more interested in spherical len effect, not something that is usually done in 3d program.

What this effect is mapping a spherical deformation onto a image, the percentage represent the height at the center of the sphere. In Photoshop, the effect can be in reverse direction. I have yet to found a free solution to this. Not found in GIMP, Krita, or G'MIC either.

The price post-October is a little high when Krita is there on the store. For comparison, Krita offers highly flexible nondestructive editing, 6 color space models and up to 32 bit, g'mic support, and a lot of generic image manipulation tools which doubles as painting tool. Maybe Krita price should have been higher. Just a thought.

Yes, I am a former Paint.NET user, but I am the kind of guy that looks back and tries again something to see if I can something out of it, and I managed to actually did got something out of it. Paint.NET is great for rapid GUI texture base. For example, here - I couldn't do this very easily in Krita or GIMP or Photoshop, but Krita is my go-to program these day. It's doable in Paint.NET thanks to people making really fancy effects for this program. I know it doesn't look like much, but it does point to what I mean by GUI texture base. Seem like I might use Paint.NET to my toolkit whenever I need to make GUI textures.

Why not allow paint.net to have the feature of blending pictures in order to create motion blur as it is was in 3d space.