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After the .zip archive is downloaded, you 'right click' on it to open a menu that gives you options to 'Extract' and 'Open with', along with a few other choices.

That is how it should be in Paint.NET. Put your image on a new layer and all is well. You don't have to cut just using copy is enough.

Greetings, Goto the Paint.NET Plugin Index and do a keyword search for 'border' and you will be directed to a few possibilities that may serve your purposes.

FYI: In Paint.NET the maximum font size is 2000 points. The font size box will 'red out' if you type in a larger number. In the Creative Text Pro plugin the largest font size is 500 points, also the plugin is extremely slow on large canvases. You have to stretch the text out side of the plugin. I recommend holding down the shift key while stretching to maintain aspect ratio and limit anti-aliasing distortion to the text!

Greetings, There are many free fonts that are available for Windows. Paint.NET does not use exclusive fonts but uses the fonts that are or can be installed into Windows. Recently there has been a plugin developed that applies graphic design elements upon the fonts:

Roy Lichtenstein used the representation of the halftone effect in his serigraph, painting and sculpture works of the 1960's thru the 1990's. https://youtu.be/6jowA-pH-Y8 I was in college studying art in the 1970's. The use of Ben Day patterns and products like Zip-A-Tone, Letraset, and Chart-Pak screens were very often used in graphic designs of that era before desktop publishing and computer graphics. I used them in my drawings and prints at that time and have gone back to using digitally produced screens in my works today. My favorite comic book illustrator of that period was Jim Steranko and Jean Giraud

Wow! Even though my contribution is quite small I am glad that I can contribute! 🙂

That is indeed what the halftone process is. In printing, images are produced with 'dots', strips, concentric circles, or some other screening/filtering effect and not in pixels! As far as I am aware of, Paint.NET does not have a one click solution for producing this effect, so as in the printing industry, CMYK halftone layer color separations are overlaid to produce the effect. It is a multi-step process in most software. Here are video links as to how it's done in apps like Photoshop and CorelDraw. CMYK color halftone effect

What do you mean by comic book effect? Are you thinking of halftone screens/filters that are applied to images before printing?

The current version of Blender does character rigging as well as 3D, 2D animation, as well as video editing. It is free and open source! BTW: For 2D animation, Synfig Studio does character rigging! I use an older software similar to Adobe flash/Animate for 2D character rigging called ToonBoom (now Harmony)

It has never happened for me! Every time that I have downloaded the .zip update, it had a single file that was the Paint.NET executable install inside. https://www.getpaint.net/download.html#download

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Did I read this correctly this time? BTW: This is a quote from my previous comment, "I produced an illustration to aid others that may have a similar query."

I think that you are correct! It is unfortunate that they felt justified to bale rather than provide clarification, but I produced an illustration to aid others that may have a similar query:

Using a simple text mask in Paint.NET:

Your resolution or pixel to inch ratio was established when you created your canvas or when the image that you are trying to crop now was loaded to be worked on! Cropping should not alter the resolution, since resolution and image dimension are not the same thing. Example: If your PPI (pixels per inch) was set to 300 and you image dimension are 8 x 10 inches, if you cropped out a one inch square from that image the resolution of that one inch square would still be 300 ppi, but the dimension of that square would be 1 x 1 inch. I would not worry about the resolution vs dimension issue. It is handled by the drivers during printing. A 15k x 21k image file will print to 5x7 just fine, but if you are trying to make a 5 x 7 fit into a 4 x 5 format, there will be no perfect fit for those are not proportional aspect ratios, and no amount if tinkering with dimensions and ppi settings will make that fit work precisely! BTW: Cropping and resizing are not the same thing either!

I think that the ability to have variations within the stroke width was added to Paint.NET in version 4.2.6, but you must be using a pen or graphics tablet. Pressure sensitivity is to suppose to be added in version 4.3!

I am not a coder so my thoughts about this potentiality would not be reliable.

Greetings, The short answer is no!

It may be that you have an infected copy of the .dll. Where did you get the .dll file? I think that it would be best practice to remove all traces of Paint.NET and then reboot and reinstall the app. https://forums.getpaint.net/topic/113764-i-cant-uninstall-paintnet/

Greetings, Is your Windows 10 Pro x64 version 1607 or higher? Windows 10 is 5 years old and up to version 1909, you may have to update Windows 10 before the current version of Paint.NET will load. The first version of Windows 10 was 1507 of the year 2015. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_10_version_history

There is a 'live' histogram feature built into the Curves+ v2.10 plugin.

That is good news! The puzzle remains as to why the dependency did not load or was somehow removed from its install location?

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