Distort This! v2.10 (Dec 27, 2021)

[toe_head2001]

Version 2.10 has been released.

 

This version adds the ability to move a Side (two adjacent corners together).

I also made some minor improvements to the Mirror option(s).

 

See first post for download.

[Rle]

☺️👍

[NSD]

Thanks for sharing the code.

I downloaded the source code of this plugin and opened it with VS 2022.
Loading Designer for first time took 25 seconds!
In previous versions of VS things were going faster.

[Peter1]

I dont' understand why distort this! does move vertically, when I set the nubs to distort only horizontally! (what is what I would need).

 

I made a simple example. Even the thin lower line of the rectangle gets moved up and made thick. The shape has changed to a triangle, but the proportions of the parts are not even kept. Pls note that I turned off Perspective, it is not checked. Questions:

(2) What is the sense of this?

and

(1) how do I stretch (or minus-stretch) something  hor-wise or such in any direction that I want to specify. For example stretching a foto horizontally, but trapezally (lower part more than upper part). (opposite to what I have drawn examplywise here.)

Edited February 15, 2022 by Peter1

[Peter1]

but when I set Perspective and V ~50 percent I get the effect I wish, but don't understand.

And don't understand where my previous post (topic in forum Paint.NET Discussions and Questions, a few minutes before this post) has disappeared to

Edited February 15, 2022 by Peter1

[Peter1]

and here are the images that correspond to the first "reply" (triangle)

(i'll also try to extend the distortion, surrounding the image with a larger canvas and post)

 

Edited February 15, 2022 by Peter1
trying to scale the original screen shots, when including in the post.

[Peter1]

It shows V 100, although the thumb is at 50 percent. This happens when I reopen Distort This! (and had it at 50 before.). I did not investigate whether committing with OK is necessary to reproduce it, or it also happens on Cancel.

[MylarDaleTolo]

Now I don't have to use Photoshop.

[Ron367]

Hi, I can't get the DistortThis pluging function to show up in Paint.net Effects-Distort dropdown menu. I downloaded the Distortthis.zip and unzipped it and copied DistortThis.dll (only file in the zip) to C:\programfiles\paint.net. I restarted Paint.net but find no means to select the effect. I suspect there is another step I must do, but don't know what. Please help? This is my first Plugin download attempt, I am a newbie in this arena. Thanks

[BoltBait]

9 minutes ago, Ron367 said:

C:\programfiles\paint.net

You need to put it into the following directory:

 

C:\programfiles\paint.net\Effects

[Ron367]

That works. thanks so much!!!

[Pyrian]

Just dropping in to say thanks for this plugin, very helpful.

[Admur Kleromov]

This is so much awesome. I've spent 2 hours with other perpective plugins to fit an image onto a laptop's screen (well, I thought it was a basic feature in Paint.net, but I could not reach the desired effect in the built-in tool, which is not bad anyhow). With DistortThis! it took under a minute. Work area is also an excellent idea! Hands down!

 

 

[Demexis]

It's sad that the plugin doesn't have an option with "Nearest Neighbors". The resulting image is blurry, which is why I can't use it in pixel art.