BdR Posted October 19 Share Posted October 19 (edited) I've been using Paint.NET for a long time now and it's great. I mainly use it for sprite editing, create text logos, icons etc. so mostly game related. Currently there's no grow/shrink selection option, which would be usefull for many applications. uniformly adjust selections outline/inline letters for logo design outline parts of photos foreground/background separation etc The way I do it now is copy all and switch over to GIMP, do some selection manipulation, mark it with a certain color and copy back into Paint.NET. It works, but not a great workflow. I could do it all in GIMP but that takes forever as it's such a pain to work with. The Paint.NET option "Effects -> Stylize -> Outline" comes close but it's not as flexible, and the plugin mentioned in this other thread doesn't quite cut it. Ideally it really should be a main feature imho. I much rather work with just Paint.NET instead of GIMP, so I feel like expand/contract selected area is a key missing feature at the moment. Edited October 19 by BdR Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Welsh Yellow Cheddar Posted October 19 Share Posted October 19 Hello @BdR, There is a plugin "Edge expander" that I use to increase the size of objects. There is also a plugin to do the opposite, "Erode" will shrink the object. I hope this helps. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BoltBait Posted October 19 Share Posted October 19 If you just want this for text, maybe you just need this plugin: BoltBait's Text Fun Factory v2.2 - Updated April 29, 2024 - Plugins - Publishing ONLY! - paint.net Forum (getpaint.net) @Rick Brewster this issue has already been filed in the official repository as issue number 2959... where I provided some code. 1 Quote Download: BoltBait's Plugin Pack | CodeLab | and a Free Computer Dominos Game Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Solution Rick Brewster Posted October 19 Solution Share Posted October 19 Yes that one is tagged as being for 5.1.x Once 5.1 is released there will probably be a few bugfix releases (there always is). Then I'll tackle some smaller features 'n things like this. 1 1 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...
BdR Posted October 20 Author Share Posted October 20 (edited) @Rick Brewster @BoltBait Nice, good to hear this new feature was already on the radar, thanks. Couldn't find issue 2959 on the official repository, but anyway looking forward to it 👍 Edited October 20 by BdR Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BoltBait Posted October 20 Share Posted October 20 2 hours ago, BdR said: Couldn't find issue 2959 on the official repository, I was talking about the official repository with the source code to paint.NET, which is private. Quote Download: BoltBait's Plugin Pack | CodeLab | and a Free Computer Dominos Game Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick Brewster Posted October 20 Share Posted October 20 4 hours ago, BdR said: Nice, good to hear this new feature was already on the radar, thanks. Yeah, @BoltBait has been bugging me for this for awhile now It's definitely a useful feature, but it does need a little bit of UI design so it can integrate well into the app. I'm also considering making it extensible, with support for "selection transform" and "selection generator" plugins. So "expand/contract selection" would be a transform, while "select all pixels with some criteria" would be a generator. But that'd probably be later. Right now I'm just focused on landing 5.1. 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...
literaldehyde Posted October 31 Share Posted October 31 Seconding this. It would be a huge quality of life improvement for general use, not just for text. Another small thing it reminds me of that would add up a lot is a keyboard shortcut for the Magic Wand Tool (and Bucket tool but less important) that allows you to increment the Tolerance level, similar to how the brush tools can increment their width with the bracket keys. Thanks for all the hard work over the years! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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