TrevorOutlaw

Final 2018 photomanipulation up! As I ring into the new year, I wish to convey my gratitude to the Paint.NET community for being an awesome bunch. To those who have stopped by and commented on my photomanipulations, thank you. To Rick Brewster, thanks for making a great software that is FREE, easy to use, and did I say FREE? To the plug-in authors, thanks for making PDN accessible and possible for me to do all my photomanipulations. Happy New Year to you all!

Well, Rick, it sounds like you are truly engaging in ground breaking works for PDN. I am truly excited about what's coming through the pipeline.

Thanks for the response, Rick.

My reaction to this: What about expanding the layer blending modes to include more options as @ReMake post had all the algorithm necessary to pull it off?

That reminds me, I need to update that tutorial now that the Brush Factory supports Photoshop brush file. //adds to do list Done.

Thank you, BoltBait. I also appreciate the source code so I can look at it and study it. I'm about to take C++ for my last Computer Science class (engineering management major) requirement, so...

Huh? Look at what Brewster said:

May I ask how you decided on the three numbers? I mean, why those number? Were they arbitrarily selected?

+1 for the Alpha Cutter. Use it extensively for photo manipulation. Pro-tip, scale down the photograph if big as it will bog down the plug in. Pro-tip #2, zoom in as close as you to get the line as close as possible for cleaner cut.

@Ruze, what you can do, though, is use what BoltBait suggested. In the Shape option drop down menu, you can select Draw Filled Shape With Outline.

Good job. Looks like the crashes has been fixed, @null54

@null54 Nope. Crashes again. It looks like it is looking for a directory that doesn't exist.

This is fantastic work! However, I made it crash. What happened was I painted a bunch of gibberish using two different ABR files in Brush Factory on the default layer. Then I made a new layer, and tried to run Brush Factory again.

@Ruze Does this video help you?

@null54 and @Joshua Lamusga One thing I have observed since updating the Brush Factory with the pull and released version of the plugin is this behavior: When I load the ABR brush for the first time, the pluging goes through the conversion process of the ABR file, and when that does, the plugin window disappear for a second or two and reappear again. I don't know if this a normal behavior, but I thought I would bring this up. If you aren't understanding what I am talking about, I can record a screenshot of it using Parallel tool.

Perhaps I should be clear. I was refering to a request to have CTRL + brackets to control the brush size. Now, I didn't know about the other combination. I don't recall seeing anything about those shortcut, so more to play with!

That was a request I made on the previous page, and Null added that. It made a huge difference as I didn't have to spend time fiddling with the slider.

Yeah, Parallel is not passing through CTRL + brackets. The weird thing is when I hold down CTRL and press the brush size buttons, it works fine. That's why I have been scratching my head on this.

Same issue with PDN v4.1.2 where the shortcut combo of CTRL+brackets aren't changing the brush size. Pressing bracket will work but not with the CTRL and bracket combo. Here are my specs:

Thanks for the update. However, I hate being a pest, but I really appreciate having the shortcut for CTRL+bracket to increase/decrease brush size by 5 pixels (like it used to) without having to leave the canvas and hold down CTRL and repeatedly click on the plus or minus button. I hope this shortcut could be added back as I really miss this feature a lot.

@kevincrans, here's a hint on how to work in BlendModes+. Copy Layer A to clipboard (Ctrl+A to select all, then Ctrl+C to copy to clipboard), then on Layer B, run BlendModes+ and choose "Copy From Clipboard" and select your blend mode. I have been waiting very patiently for Rick to expand PDN's default blend mode library to incorporate the other blend modes since v 3.5.11.

For now, use this plug-in by @toe_head2001

Actually, Joshua, I would like to have the PDN's control for increasing/decreasing brush radius by using the brackets. I want to be able to paint on the canvas without leaving it to tweak with the Brush Size slider. Use the bracket to increase/decrease by 1 pixel and when ctrl+bracket are used, increase/decrease by 5 pixel.

@null54 My current reaction after loading the ABR file in your modified version of the Brush Factory...