Ishi Posted March 21, 2021 Share Posted March 21, 2021 (edited) Hello. I encountered an issue with the Magic Wand tool recently. I tried selecting the bottom white area of the image and suddenly, it made these rectangular patches that appear where I drag the Magic Wand tool, behaving almost like a brush. I also noticed that the Magic Wand seems to take longer to select something, despite me not having a very large image. In fact its just plain colors. Edited March 21, 2021 by Ishi Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ishi Posted March 27, 2021 Author Share Posted March 27, 2021 Has anyone checked on this glitch yet? Thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toe_head2001 Posted March 27, 2021 Share Posted March 27, 2021 Please provide the Diagnostic information found in Paint.NET. Settings -> Diagnostics -> Copy to clipboard Quote (September 25th, 2023) Sorry about any broken images in my posts. I am aware of the issue. My Gallery | My Plugin Pack Layman's Guide to CodeLab Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick Brewster Posted March 27, 2021 Share Posted March 27, 2021 Sorry, just hadn't gotten around to this until now. Does this happen every time you use the Magic Wand? Or only sometimes? Performance is expected to be a bit lower with the changes in 4.2.15 for premultiplied vs. straight alpha. It'll be faster if you select Straight with the button in the toolbar to the right of the tolerance slider. This will change how things work if you have any transparency in the layer, however. Quote The Paint.NET Blog: https://blog.getpaint.net/ Donations are always appreciated! https://www.getpaint.net/donate.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ishi Posted March 29, 2021 Author Share Posted March 29, 2021 No, it does not happen always. But right now, I was able to reproduce the glitch by doing what I did last time it happened. I simply copied and pasted the same image that was from MS Publisher to Paint.NET and it happened again with the magic wand when I tried selecting the white area. I tried switching from Premultiplied to Straight (I don't really switch between these settings before) and the glitch acted the same way. I also tried pasting another image from Publisher to PDN and it kinda showed a square block for a moment, typical with this glitch and the magic wand was slow to process for a while but this one acted better as I was soon able to select portions using the magic wand just fine afterwards. I do not recall experiencing this issue with the exchange of images between Publisher and PDN before in previous versions. This is just strange. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BoltBait Posted March 29, 2021 Share Posted March 29, 2021 I suspect out of date video drivers. BTW, you should update your OS. Looks like you’re running Win7. Quote Download: BoltBait's Plugin Pack | CodeLab | and a Free Computer Dominos Game Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ishi Posted March 29, 2021 Author Share Posted March 29, 2021 Well I don't recall this issue with the last few versions of Paint.NET so I suspect its isolated to v.4.2.15 or its Magic Wand. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toe_head2001 Posted March 29, 2021 Share Posted March 29, 2021 The Diagnostic information found in Paint.NET could still be useful here. It removes a lot of the guesswork. Settings -> Diagnostics -> Copy to clipboard 1 Quote (September 25th, 2023) Sorry about any broken images in my posts. I am aware of the issue. My Gallery | My Plugin Pack Layman's Guide to CodeLab Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick Brewster Posted April 3, 2021 Share Posted April 3, 2021 Could still use the diagnostics info, @Ishi I think I know what's causing this, I've been getting other reports of crashes in the code that renders the selection on the canvas. For now you can probably avoid this by disabling hardware acceleration in Settings. Just make sure to re-enable once you get the next 4.2.16 alpha/beta build! (or final release) Quote The Paint.NET Blog: https://blog.getpaint.net/ Donations are always appreciated! https://www.getpaint.net/donate.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ishi Posted April 28, 2021 Author Share Posted April 28, 2021 I disabled hardware acceleration. Magic wand worked better this time, without the square glitches. Re-enabled hardware acceleration just to make sure, and so glitch came back. Disabled it again and works fine again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick Brewster Posted April 28, 2021 Share Posted April 28, 2021 Also try with the new 4.2.16 update. Might work better, I put in something that should have fixed this (with hardware acceleration enabled). Quote The Paint.NET Blog: https://blog.getpaint.net/ Donations are always appreciated! https://www.getpaint.net/donate.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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