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@ReMake Thank you! This is how I used some of the info from your tutorial:

Unlike Ink Sketch; Ink Sketch + does not alter background transparency! The ink drawing effect looks best to me when the 'blue' box is checked.

@Just Another User Have you tried the Ink Sketch + plugin that is a part of Ahmed's plugin pack here?

🙂 Here is a graphic remedy:

For some reason if you save the PNG with as 24bit you can loose transparency in Paint.NET 4.1.6 Just to be safe first save as a PDN then save as a TIF. you can convert a TIF to PNG later. I always save as PDN and then a TIF I only use PNG or JPEG if it being used on the web or if it is requested.

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I create a folder on the desktop each month to save the projects that I created for that month. Every few days I do an incremental backup of that month's folder onto my storage hard drive. I have learned the hard way to make backups as often as you can, especially when hard drives are so inexpensive.

How were the files deleted. If they were sent to the trash bin they can just be restored. If you used Recuva correctly you recovered your files to and external device and now, you may be able to look in the recycle bin and select restore if the deleted folder resides there.

You can use HTML to do the things that you are suggesting or you can use a presentation manager like Power Point to create a dynamic photo album. HTML: https://www.w3schools.com/howto/howto_css_image_overlay.asp

Also if you execute your work in bright colors and after completion boost the saturation level it will look more like a blacklighted work.

xod's illustration does not show it but you can use this fill for lines and brushes on transparent layers. In xod's example the primary color of the line is red while the second color is white. Your primary and secondary colors for your fill and fill background can be what ever on a transparent layer on top of your map. @last_dovahkiin The border on you maps is made from two types of lines One is made from dots & dashes while the other is made from diagonals The appear to placed in proximity (at times) to represent two 'conditions' of the terrain.

My point is not in being nostalgic for a process, but in getting the task done. That is why I referenced using PowerPoint also, and now the OP recollects using a plugin after all.

Okay then. Did you try Pixey's suggestion?

Greetings w3sta, As a forum member it s strongly requsted that you adhere to the rules; especially rule 6 in your case: I have learned to comply 🙂

Simpler yet: Do all the text on a transparent layer as stated above Duplcate the layer as a backup. Then apply the Drop Shadow plugin with color set to white You can experiment with depth, angles, and intensity to your liking

BTW: When I chose to use a 10,000 x 10,000 pixel canvas I was unaware of a font point size limit. When I entered a few words of text on the canvas I found out that i could not go larger than 2000 pts but that canvas size allowed me enough space to do so if I could. At the canvas default setting you can't even enter one complete text character into that space at a point size of 2000, it will more than fill the space.

Thank You!

If you have a copy of MS Office on you computer, you will not go to hell if you use PowerPoint to add the text with outline to your maps!

The computer must be deleting this cache upon shutdown, becaue there is almost a full minute for all of the effects to load when starting Paint.NET after a startup of Windows.

There are several plugins contain with in the pack! So I am assuming that you are using the Conditional Hue/Saturation Adjustment. You have to use the left and/or right mouse button to select a range of colors that you don't want to hue shift; then use the hue slider to change colors in the image that are not in that selected range.

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That is purpose of help and documention screens, so you don't have to store all possibilities and features in you memory, or bother others to look them up for you! Having a ready reference is so advantageous! I have 625 Effects installed in addition to the 44 built-in effects. Having that many effects causes Paint.NET, on my computer, to take 63 seconds to load. My designing routine is not that hectic that a 63 second load time is a burden. Windows 10 Home 64bit v1903 OS build 18962.175 Paint.NET 4.1.6 (Final 4.106.7016.38074) AMD Athlon 5350 APU with Radeon HD 8400 / R3 Series (4 cores, 4 threads) 16384 MBytes of DDR3 RAM Hitachi HUA723020ALA641 SATA

Have you updated Paint.NET? Did this occur after that ? I have not; so I am unable to tell if this is an alpha release issue. I am also running Windows 10 1903 OS build 18362.175 - 64 bit with AMD Radeon Video Drivers Maybe one of the Paint.NET Forum Moderators can offer better advice. Did you test toe-head2001 suggestion? My other suggestion is to update video drivers and adjust its settings.