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@Rick Brewster Thanks for the update!

After installing PDN 4.3 and running the plugin errors, I have the following errors: "PaintDotNet.Effects.dll" I have moved all plugins out of the effects file onto a desktop folder called Temp. My computer spec is below.

Update: Since I deactivated the original Google account, I didn't realize that the tutorial video was gone. So I went ahead and made a new tutorial video using two open source software, a desktop recorder and video editor. Hopefully this tutorial will continue to help folks realize the magic of utilizing two applications using workaround.

For the first picture, if you look at it analytically, you would note that Jennifer Aniston's eyes was highlighted with some contrast and the cherry was clearly manipulated to give the effect it is shown. There is a lot of masking that is going on and the end result is stunning. While other gave you some tips on the tinting, they didn't really touch up on the subtlety of the effect. For the 2nd picture, you can use the Dreamy effect that others linked in to BoltBait's plugin pack, or you could duplicate the layer and run a Gaussian blur, play with the setting, but I would keep it under 10 and play with the blend modes to achieve the effect you are after.

@Skittles In your screenshot, it does not appear that your Selection Tool is not set to Fixed Sized or Fixed Ratio. See this documentation.

@digital_oatmeal The techniques described in this tutorial will help you even though it is a roundabout way until a custom brush engine is finally bundled with a future version of PDN.

Apologies to the moderators... I would like to know if Paint.NET will work seamlessly on Microsoft Surface. What would be the recommended specs for PDN to run smoothly? Thanks.

One technique I learned from a tutorial on this forum, that is unfortunately in the tutorial graveyard, is to expand the photograph by 100 pixels and fill it the new edge around the photograph with either light or dark grey. Then use Levels to tweak the color slightly, and revert your photograph back to its original size. So for example, let's say you have a 1200 x 900 pixels photograph, I would change the photograph size to 1300 x 1000 pixels. There will be a white border around the image, then I will fill the white border with either light or dark grey color, run Level (without using Auto level) and playing with the setting until I am satisfied with the change. After that, I revert the photograph back to 1200 x 900.

Update: Made an executive decision to remove tutorial for using Paint.NET and Q'Mic. Perhaps in the future a better video tutorial for using Q'Mic will be made.

If you pause the video at 16 seconds, there is an interface with how to use Extract Foreground in Q'Mic, and it says to use "Backspace" to delete last point. To be honest, I need to redo that video because it is probably my worst tutorial and I should have uploaded a picture of the screenshot so people can use it as a reference.

I like what you have done to the place, it smells of fresh paint and looks clean.

Use selection mode: Fiddle with different setting: Normal, Fixed Size, and Fixed Ratio. Change scale from pixels to inches or MM, and backfill with color of your choice. Another thing to do is enable ruler on and draw a series of line with antialias turn off, 1 pixel size, and create different grid of colors, or to save time, use this plugin, to establish position of grid: While I would love to have the ability to "snap to grid" similar to Photoshop with alignment lines that shows up on the fly, this is probably the best solution I can think of to work in PDN.

I wanted to make a plugin very similar to this at one time. Awesome plugin!

Under 'Search Option,' type in align and you will be presented with several choices.

I know what you are referring to but something like this isn't available in Paint.NET. You will be better off using the Align plugin and there are several.

You have 3 different options: Alpha Cutter A video tutorial by me that shows two different methods on how to select and extract foreground object from background. This may not be part of your query, but I think you can figure out how to do this. Best of luck.

While I appreciate the kudos, the real kudos should go to @dipstick who found it first. Taking his tip and @welshblue suggestion to use alpha-mask, presto the tutorial was born. The tool of G'Mic was found when watching a video on YouTube about G'Mic in Photoshop, Gimp, Krita, and Paint.NET. I had no idea that G'Mic had the tool to remove background as well until that video on YouTube. Speaking of video, I really need to redo the video on using G'Mic. It is bloody potato, IMHO.

Yes. Here are two options that I highly recommend: Unsplash and Pexels. Edit: Here's a quick and dirty example. Stock used.

Does your lightsaber cut through anything? I am fascinated by how you could have constructed one.

Thanks, man. Thank you. ____________________ New on page 1, decided to create a simple spacescape. Been a long time since I've dabbled in space art.

@Woodwalker while I don't use Instagram, you could recreate some effect seen in IG by downloading and installing @BoltBait plug-in.

Dumb question but feel like it needs to be asked. Why are you using JPG? It erode over time since it is a lossy format. Have you tried saving in PNG instead?

I think your best bet is to 1) purchase a license to run Windows, and 2) download and install VirtualBox. Best of luck.

@lynxster4 & @welshblue, well done on a fabulous Tiffany lamp.

@lynxster4, @Pixey, @welshblue, & @Vagabondi Thank you all for your kind words. New on page 1, inspired by a similar photomanipulation on YouTube, decided to give it a whirl.