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I always add my text to its own transparent layer. This gives me the option of moving or removing the text, changing the text later for a different project, or for updating a similar project. I save all of my projects as PDN files first and then to other formats; mainly TIFF or PNG! There are several Text Formation plugins available. After installation; they can be found under the Events Tab in the Text Formation options. Goto the Paint.NET Plugin Index and type Text Formation in the Search Options box to locate various plugins.

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Take a look at this link for an answer to your query: https://gmic.eu/gallery/artistic.shtml#menu

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Well done! This should become part of a graphic novel. I have enjoyed comic books for over a half century!

Very nice job Pixey! To polish this composition; you can use the Tool plugin called "Smudge" to zoom in and use a small brush with the proper adjustments, to smudge out the artifacts in the edited image.

Merry Christmas to All! I do a lot of tile, fabric and pattern design and I use the Seamless Texture Maker a lot for years. Thank You MadJik!

Currently I work with images that start at 5000 x 5000 pixels (52.09 x 52.09 inches), at 96 dpi and a bit depth of 32. When I save to a TIFF in Paint.NET, I get a file that is ~ 3 million bytes. When I save the same image as a JPEG with a bit depth of 24 (at 95% compression) it is half that size. When I save it as a PNG with a bit depth of 8 it is about the same file size as the JPEG. If you need to have a small JPEG file size you will have to increase the compression to ~ 50%. When I save the same file as a 50% compression JPEG, I got the file size down to ~ 0.5 million bytes. Is there some reason that the bit depth must be 8? If you need a bit depth of 8; you may want to save the file as a GIF. (The Paint.NET JPEG compression is defaulted at 95%). Remember to set it back if you are going to do other projects during the same session. I will often just close out one session and start a new project in PDN rather than restarting. Also, JPEG file compression is a lossy file format! Each time a JPEG is open re-worked and saved again, you run the risk of losing image data to each iteration. As I attempt to live up to the name of "HyReZ", I shoot all of my photos as RAW and convert copies to various file formats depending upon the project or purpose.

Do a wildcard search of drive C by typing *.log in the search box. It will locate all of the files that end in the .log extension. It will reveal the paths of those .log files.

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The strange thing in Libre Office Write & Draw is that I can place shapes behind the Fontwork object and it shows that its background is transparent, but when it is copied to the clipboard it is converted to white when it is pasted. I went to Fontwork help to see if there was an option to set the background to a color. No luck yet! It appears that it is being converted to a bitmap format that does not support transparency. Since the Microsoft Office apps use the same graphics engine ( even Excel ); you should be able to use any of the apps to create text and graphics that can be copied into PDN. These MS Office apps can do both raster and vector graphics.

I tried Fontwork in LibreOffice but I didn't find a way to enable transparency for the background of the Fontwork graphic.

Greetings amadeus, RAW is a FileType. Goto the plugin index for FileTypes and look for RAW. Once you install the RAW FileType reader you can open the RAW file and save to any of the available file types.

@hanspeter You can also use Microsoft Word's 'Word Art' feature to create text. After creating the Word Art text , highlight the Word Art and make a copy while it is highlighted and paste it into a Paint.NET layer. ( Do not copy the Word Art as it is within the box anchored frame or it will paste with a white background rather that a transparent background! )

Great Work null54! It works just fine and up to the 4096 pixels square resolution for my project to Render a 3D Image Object Cube. Thank you!

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@ScrapbookWithPDN, I have been a user of Paint.NET for 10 years and I love it! Back in 2010 I bought the Academic version of the Adobe Creative Suite 5 because teachers got an 85% discount. Learning Photoshop took an lot of hours. Today I use Paint.NET for most of my graphics works. It has most of the tools I need and with the Effects and File Type plugins; I can handle most of my creation and editing requirements. I have an assortment of graphic creation and editing apps and I don't hesitate to use them with in the execution of a single project. Paint.NET does not have to do everything! It does many great things for a price that is unbeatable!

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Greetings Rodger the Dodger, Your crack in the street has created a mystery that needs to be further explored! I created a "What will happen next?" possibility.

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Greetings Mackenzie, Drafting an object in Paint.NET is comparable to drafting an object in any other medium, wither it is digital or traditional! The level of style and precision would depend upon the artist executing the project. Pixey's link is a great starting resource!

@dipstick I have to figure out the correct outputs for the settings and try again. I used the G'MIC version that came in the plugin zip folder. It Appears that your image uses the same version.

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I have attempted to work with the Paint.NET G'MIC plugin by null54 using the 3D Image Object of the Rendering option to create a cube using a tile that I made as its surface. The softeware shows an image of the desired object, but when I click on Apply or OK, the plugin closes and no image was created.