BoltBait's GPU Accelerated Plugin Pack for Paint.NET v5.0 (Updated 2024-04-29)

[Haoto]

Hello. I have a question regarding the "Text Fun Factory" plugin.

 

I really really liked the previous "Outlined / Gradient Text" plugin for its simplicity, especially when it auto-aligns the text to the middle of a selected area.

However, the current "Text Fun Factory" plugin doesn't do that.

It also doesn't allow multiple lines (shift + enter—I don't know what it's called).

A lot of fonts behave strangely with each other. They overlap or spread out when they shouldn't, even after altering the settings.

 

Do you have any plans on adding a fixed alignment feature?
 

 

Spoiler

 

Edited January 26 by Haoto

[Rick Brewster]

5 hours ago, Haoto said:

A lot of fonts behave strangely

You need to tell us which fonts, otherwise our lack of psychic powers prevents us from being able to investigate this

[BoltBait]

10 hours ago, Haoto said:

I really really liked the previous "Outlined / Gradient Text" plugin for its simplicity

 

So, use it. No one's stopping you.

[Haoto]

@Rick Brewster Sorry, I forgot to mention that.

It's practically all fonts. The letters' overlapping has no pattern.

The screenshot I posted shows the letter "o" on top of the letter "u."

 

@BoltBait But isn't your plugin removed for Paint.NET 5.0 and above?

Could it be that you have a separate download dedicated to this plugin?

[ClaireBear]

Hey, weird question
Every since the last few updates the feather's been broken.
Instead of feathering and it shrinking the object, and adding a blur it its place... it just shrinks the thing I'm feathering.

I have no idea what's wrong, and I think it's all done right.
It was working perfectly before, and seeing as this is the only feather plugin, I kinda need it. 
There's like... no "blur radius" I guess it could be called, and instead is acting more like the DPY's AA Assistant. 

[BoltBait]

20 hours ago, Haoto said:

@BoltBait But isn't your plugin removed for Paint.NET 5.0 and above?

Could it be that you have a separate download dedicated to this plugin?

 

Here are the retired text plugins:

 

RetiredTextPlugins.zip

 

Enjoy.

 

Contents:

 

BBOutlinedGradientText.dll

CreativeTextPro.dll

 

Both of these plugins have been removed from my plugin pack and replaced with Text Fun Factory.

 

[JAA]

I am using the fantastic addon Outline Selection (Effects|Selection|Outline Selection).

 

What it does is for the selected area (even kooky strange selections) it will paint a buffer (eg 10 pixels) in a selected colour on the inside border. I do this in my special case in a yellow.

 

This is great. I would prefer 14 pixels in my special case, but all I do is just then select the inner area and do another 4 pixels. The tool only goes up to 10 pixels.

 

However, I really need it to be a dashed border, ie a dashed line of yellow and red.

 

That means I have to then manually go over this border, measuring 12 pixels (with the line tool) and putting a red dash along that border at whatever weird angle that border is at that point. Then I measure 12 pixel length with the line tool and leave the yellow already there.

 

Is there any way I am not aware of to speed this up?

 

Could I get the Outline Selection immediately drawing the dashed yellow/red line (at the dash length of my choice)?

Edited March 14 by JAA

[Welsh Yellow Cheddar]

@JAA Hello, I don't know how to increase or decrease the length of dashes or the gap between the dashes but if you run the plugin on two different layers you don't need to use the line tool. If you want rounded dashes then you can use the median effect.

[BoltBait]

Step 1: Run the outline effect and choose yellow for the color.

 

Click OK

 

Step 2: Run the outline effect again and choose the red color changing the line style to dashed.

 

8 hours ago, JAA said:

The tool only goes up to 10 pixels.

 

You must be using a really old version. The one shipping now goes up to 100.

 

[Lxndwich]

Not sure if you're doing requests for new plugins at the moment (or at all), but I had a potential idea.

 

Something akin to the "Hue/Saturation+" plugin, but for setting the colors within the range to a predefined color.

 

Say you had something like this:

You can't really make a particular area transparent since the gradients would mess with things, and you can't really just make the whole thing black and white before overlaying the color change since the background isn't off-white but rather off-blue.

 

As such, you'd likely wanna pick a range around the pink spectrum before replacing the color... But what if you had a specific hex code in mind, and couldn't replicate it with the HSV slider? In this example, I'm gonna take 00FF90, since I'm the one who created the picture and can modify it due to that (though, in the case of this plugin, it'd be assumed that you're editing a file that was provided to you and/or saved in a state of partial destruction (layers merged, saturation/contrast/brightness/value changed, etc.) and that you lack the original layered (or otherwise unaltered) copy).

 

With an ideal result, you'd receive an output like this:

Obviously this won't happen every time, since you'd need understanding of how the "Hue/Saturation+" plugin works to begin with, but this could prove helpful to quite a few people.

[Mac]

@BoltBaitThank you very much all these wonderful tools through the years.  What an outstanding contribution you have made to the community!

[Hellohello]

Thanks thanks thanks so much for these tools!

 

Regarding 'Text fun factory' (i have paint.net 5.0.13):
 

A.

This is the original text without the plugin, Font is 'Calibri'

This is the Text with the plugin, Font is also 'Calibri'

I wonder why are the letters much closer together? Is this supposed to be this way and is just the way this plugin works?

Any way i can get normal Calibri-Font like in the original text?
Or somehow have the letters not that overlapping touching? -> i only use the plugin to create a black border around the white text (to make Text clearly visible on top of a chaotic picture), like this (i think there is no other solution in paint.net that brings me black borders around white text, is there?) 

 

 

Thanks a lot for tips

 

EDIT: 

Answer, obvious solution: make a space between every letter! Works great

Edited April 28 by Hellohello

[BoltBait]

1 hour ago, Hellohello said:

I wonder why are the letters much closer together?

 

The default is to overlap the letters slightly.

 

1 hour ago, Hellohello said:

Is this supposed to be this way and is just the way this plugin works?

 

Yes.

[worldstar666]

Where is the Align Object plugin?

[worldstar666]

whoops forgot that isn't a part of this pack

[44Nifty]

Hey, my outlined text generates erroneous spikes with most fonts. Any idea why? I haven't updated the plugin pack so its possible that this is just an issue with the version I'm not, but I'm not sure

 

[BoltBait]

14 minutes ago, 44Nifty said:

I haven't updated the plugin pack

 

You just need to update this plugin here: https://forums.getpaint.net/topic/121343-boltbaits-gpu-accelerated-plugin-pack-for-paintnet-v50-updated-2024-04-29/?do=findComment&comment=621180

 

 

Then, adjust this outline style:

Miter causes the spikes, Round or Bevel will eliminate them.

 

BTW, the same function exists in my Text Fun Factory plugin, as shown here:

 

[biskitts]

hello, virus total only detected 1 bad flag out of 71 by MacSecure Acronis (Static ML) as a trojan malware. Why is this? is it safe to download?

[Tactilis]

4 hours ago, biskitts said:

virus total only detected 1 bad flag out of 71 by MacSecure Acronis (Static ML) as a trojan malware. Why is this?

Because that's a false positive report by Acronis. It will likely eventually stop flagging it as 'bad' once its ML catches up with reality.
 

 

4 hours ago, biskitts said:

is it safe to download?

If you are downloading from this forum, i.e using the Download button on the 1st post in this thread, then yes, it is safe.


 

[kitfi]

hey,,, i wonder if you could add a subtract mode for ApplyMask.dll? ^_^

[buranir]

I actually hadn't noticed that I was posting on the wrong thread, as I had gotten there by searching up the exact error. Yes, I do have the latest version of Paint.Net (5.013) installed, and not the Microsoft Store version. The error was the same as the user which I had accidentally failed to quote: when the installer runs, it simply shows a small window with the text, "Sorry, I can't find Classic Paint.NET in your registry under LocalMachine. If you're running the store version, this is fine."

[BoltBait]

22 minutes ago, buranir said:

I do have the latest version of Paint.Net (5.013) installed, and not the Microsoft Store version. The error was the same as the user which I had accidentally failed to quote: when the installer runs, it simply shows a small window with the text, "Sorry, I can't find Classic Paint.NET in your registry under LocalMachine. If you're running the store version, this is fine."

 

When you install Paint.NET, it puts a path to itself in the registry under LocalMachine.  Your computer doesn't have that link. So, something is strange about your setup.

 

For you, the best thing may be to install my plugin pack manually by downloading the zip file of all the plugin DLL files at the bottom of the first post (in small letters). There is a link there to show you how to install it.  Good luck!

 

[buranir]

23 minutes ago, BoltBait said:

 

When you install Paint.NET, it puts a path to itself in the registry under LocalMachine.  Your computer doesn't have that link. So, something is strange about your setup.

 

For you, the best thing may be to install my plugin pack manually by downloading the zip file of all the plugin DLL files at the bottom of the first post (in small letters). There is a link there to show you how to install it.  Good luck!

 

I couldn't figure out what the issue was with my Paint.NET setup, but installing the plugins manually worked. 

[Tactilis]

1 hour ago, buranir said:

Sorry, I can't find Classic Paint.NET in your registry under LocalMachine.

Are you perhaps using the Portable version of paint.net?