ninap1979 Posted February 20, 2021 Share Posted February 20, 2021 (edited) Hi All, Im trying to create a file to print on a tshirt and it has faded edges.. so imagine a sunset image with the edges blurred and faded so that it fades into a white tshirt Now while i can fade easily in paint.net, transparencies don't print on tshirts. Theres this awesome tutorial on youtube (below) but its for adobe.. but i want to use paint.net and not sure if its possible. It seems the key missing step is that in this photoshop tutorial they convert to pure black and white bitmap, select the blank space and delete.. so this captures only some of the pixels creating a fade effect. However on Paint.net i cant create a bitmap and have this black and white pixelated effect on which to use apply the magic wand so that it doesnt capture the full density of pixels. Is it possible? If so, how... Just spent the better part of 12 hours trying to figure this out.. fingers crossed theres a way.. Edited February 20, 2021 by ninap1979 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pixey Posted February 20, 2021 Share Posted February 20, 2021 Hello @ninap1979 and welcome to the forum Perhaps try this. 1. Have a black background layer. 2. White smoke on a new transparent layer. 3. Select the white smoke with the magic wand on flood mode, and take the tolerance really low. (I used 4%) 4. Deselect the white smoke and copy to clipboard. ( Ctrl + A, Ctrl + C) 5. Merge smoke to black background. 6. Use Paste Alpha found in @BoltBait's pack, on default. 7. Then use your favorite soften edges plugin - I used Alpha Blur. 1 Quote How I made Jennifer & Halle in Paint.net My Gallery | My Deviant Art "Rescuing one animal may not change the world, but for that animal their world is changed forever!" anon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ardneh Posted February 20, 2021 Share Posted February 20, 2021 (edited) Something like this, where every pixel is either full alpha or fully opaque. This not the same as what is done in the video, but it might be an acceptable alternative. Edited February 20, 2021 by ardneh Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ninap1979 Posted February 21, 2021 Author Share Posted February 21, 2021 Thank you Pixey for the tips and for the welcome. I will try this tonight, it looks good! Havent used any plugins yet but will explore this alpha one Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ninap1979 Posted February 21, 2021 Author Share Posted February 21, 2021 Ardneh, that looks good! that could def work as it would avoid the printing of a full colour block. How would i go about doing that? thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ardneh Posted February 21, 2021 Share Posted February 21, 2021 Cut out the image portion that you want to keep, with enough extra so that the dispersion won't enter the part of the image you want to leave unaffected by the dispersion effect. Apply Alpha Blur followed by Alpha to Dots. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ninap1979 Posted February 22, 2021 Author Share Posted February 22, 2021 thanks everyone, both great solutions! Ive actually combined them both to get a great effect. So appreciate you both took the time to respond. Thanks nina 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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