Humility

well it won't do everything the plug-in I described would do. Like help recolor noise. But worth trying.

I don't understand the significance of 'not a code lab plugin' does that mean it could blow up my computer or something?

I know its purpose isn't the kind that is really focused on here. Virtually all plug-ins and stuff focus on helping improve the end result. The quality of my own 'artwork' depends on how much time I put into it with the time being the limiting factor. Something like this that will work, will save me a lot of time and consequently improve my artwork. And I'm sure I'm not the only one. Its a plug in that will likely have no unique effect but if it works like I hope it should act as a short cut for a few things. Other then clean up, mostly in editting the colors of textures. Like when creating noise over say a light blue color when trying to make ice, one ends up with a lot of black and dark blue no matter what. Currently to deal with that one has to copy the area one is about to noisyfy, paste it to another layer, noise it up, wand the offending pixels, and then paint bucket them with global 100% and a transparent white. (Or fiddle with the cloud generator though I find its coverage not as satisfactory as pure noise) This would reduce all that to one step. And of course it would help deal with noise or textures you don't have the luxury of pre-seperating into layers. And would help fix jpgs.

Took me two hours to make this post, I missed yours.

There are two things I want to do with it. Yes as a speckle cleaner as my needs are mostly mechanical not artistic. But on the artistic front it should help with making the resulting colors from noise more appeasing. But its not working. The size slider is having no apparent effect. Here let me give some images to help show what I mean. Though please don't laugh at how bad they are. This is the base image. http://i268.photobucket.com/albums/jj38/Humility1/The%20Unvieled%20Skirmishers.jpg Here is the image with the default settings of the speck tool. Notice is has very little effect. but it effects everything. Reducing a little bit on both the small black specks and the primary lines. http://i268.photobucket.com/albums/jj38/Humility1/The%20Unvieled%20Skirmishers%20Example%201.jpg Here is a version with the size variable moved to max. There is no increase in effect, just a shifting of the targeted pixels. http://i268.photobucket.com/albums/jj38/Humility1/The%20Unvieled%20Skirmishers%20Example%202.jpg And here is the final result. I show you this because you might want to see what the end goal was. Also I recall in this image in order to rapidly place the spikes on the flying creatures I had used the custom brush tool. Now one problem that tends to plague my drawings is that I have no good way of, well getting rid of that feathering effect that happens when I rotate stuff, resize and so on. And since I make lineart. they look really bad against the otherwise crisp black lines I make. http://i268.photobucket.com/albums/jj38/Humility1/The%20Unvieled%20Skirmishers.png And for a second example, these follow the same pattern with the same issues. My ice effect would have also been better with this tool I think. I forgot to remove the dark spots from my noise so I wasn't able to get the ice to gleam. And I didn't feel like undoing everything I already did. http://i268.photobucket.com/albums/jj38/Humility1/Balok.jpg http://i268.photobucket.com/albums/jj38/Humility1/Balok%20ex%201.jpg http://i268.photobucket.com/albums/jj38/Humility1/Balok%20ex%202.jpg http://i268.photobucket.com/albums/jj38/Humility1/Balok.png I do have images that a are far denser with so many splotches from eraser marks, sweat drops, smears, pencil burns ect that can take days to clean up. But they are fan art and I don't feel comfortable showing fan art. Even though the vast majority of what I draw is fan art and fan comics.

@ego Oh I guess my use of the word contiguous was misleading. If What you describes works, but I would have to repeat that thousands of times. I meant something that could do all the the spots that are 20 pixels or less, at once. And thanks techno.

I want to post a request for a plug in that would be able to identify contiguous colors and their size then recolor them based on a set of paremeters. Like say I might ask the plug-in to find contiguous areas of black, with a 1% tolerance and recolor any of these contiguous black areas comprised of 20 or fewer pixels into white. This would be really useful to me and I would like to know where I would post a request for a plug in like this.

I figured out how to use it. Its just for something like this I wouldn't want to spend more than half an hour at it. And with that as my metric its slow.

This easy way is very very hard. And even slower then it is hard. I guess I can see why. But I think I personally am just going to wait for people to post shapes they make.

Thanks.

Oh a variety of tree and building shapes useful also. I hate backgrounds but If I had a bunch of tree and building shapes and maybe a variety of car shapes they would be easier. Yes thats it! And maybe shapes that include full people, head, torso legs and arms. Like stick figures I can color.

never mind

Hi I was thinking about what use I personally could use for the shape tool and realized I use the shape method anyway. So I am requesting human body shape outlines. Unfortunately I suck at remembering shape names. First off there are like a dozen head shapes, they have the names of basic shapes like a heart face, star face and a round face but they actually all into subtypes of each so having a custom shape for each sub type might be useful. And when drawing people's bodies, Having an upside down four sided triangle for a man's torso and an adjustable hourglass for a woman would also be useful.

Is there a thread to request shapes?

Any place I can post an image to get advice on how to generally improve and better use paint.net? I thought the pictorium but that says best of the best. And mine are far from the best.

I upgraded and loved windows 10.

What are custom shapes used for?

In case anyone cares. It didn't work at first but after applying a light Gaussian blur it did. Well enough for my needs though any real artist wouldn't accept it.

I have to agree with Damaris, the free form tool is much, much faster for making organic shapes then the paintbrush and super duper more faster for making organic shapes then the multi step process that is the lasso. Its an accessibility issue. Organic shape by the way are shapes without the straightness. Another reason for the freeform is that, its a simple tool for beginners.

I was putting together a collage of the things I've tried and failed. And I uh... noticed one of the main problems I had with the basic motion lines ,you know, three lines streaming out behind an object. Was that against a colorful background they just didn't work. Then I remembered a rule I heard that white text with a black outline works on all backgrounds. And today I just learned how to outline a white line with black in another thread. And embarrassingly it gave me the idea to make a white motion line outlined with black to see if that works. I don't know if it will until I finish a new page, but if it doesn't I'll finish the collage and get back to this thread. I definitely don't think that the cutting out process is worth the time. I'm not an artist, I just draw some fan art and monsters and characters and some scenes for my weekly D&D games I GM. So I have serious time limits to finish what I do. So any new techniques I add to my repertoire do have to be time efficient ones.

Ok well I'm a terrible craftsman, so thats that I guess.

I don't have separate objects as I hand draw things out, scan them, then color them in.

You know how sometimes in animation and comics you'll see these blurry whiteness behind them as they move? I can't seem to replicate that. I've been just doing without any evidence of motion, but I just well twenty minutes ago had someone ask why something that was supposed to be tossed through the air, was instead floating. So apparently I need those motion lines.

Holy expletive! That very first thing I tried. The boltbait thing worked not only pretty much perfectly, but it worked better and even more unexpectedly, faster then the freeform shape tool! Thank you! Now I'll just delete all these plugins that came with that one. Which also makes it the first plug-in I have ever kept.

Okay thanks. I'll delete the rest of these plugins I downloaded first. No telling how Boltbait's third party software will interact with other third party software,