InteractiveBuddy Posted July 30, 2009 Share Posted July 30, 2009 This tutorial is available as a PDF. Click here to view or download it OK ive seen a lot of people that have tried to explain how to make a shadow on any piece of text. Ive found that a lot of them are wrong so im making a tutorial to teach people that don't know how to make shadows on text or anything else in paint.net: To start you will need 2 plugins. They are... Outline Object Drop Shadow If you dont know how to install plugins go here Ok lets get started: 1. Open Paint.net ( :pdn: ) and create an image of any size. Ill be choosing 300 x 300 pixels: 2.Now choose the magic wand tool ( ) and click on the white area. Then press the cut button ( ) or press Ctrl+X on your keyboard: You now have a Transparent Background 3. Click on text ( )in the toolbar to the left. choose your font, size, color etc. then type your desired text: 4. Go into Effects>Object>Outline Object and change the Width Value to 1 and change the color to black unless your text is black. If it is you can make it white or red or anything else: 5. Go into Effects>Object>Drop Shadow and change the values to the following: Your Done! Heres an example of what it can look like at the end: You can use drop shadowed text in signatures, avatars or just about anything. Just make sure its not over the size limit! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curmudgeon Posted July 30, 2009 Share Posted July 30, 2009 Don't assume others are wrong just because you haven't experimented long enough... You can use either plugin to get the same effect, if you know what you're doing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
InteractiveBuddy Posted July 30, 2009 Author Share Posted July 30, 2009 Don't assume others are wrong just because you haven't experimented long enough... I have experimented long enough. Ive used 20 or so techniques that people said for about 3 hours and only 1 worked but it was in a reply to a question so i decideed to to put it in my own words with pictures and stuff in a tut Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris_Rulez Posted July 30, 2009 Share Posted July 30, 2009 I like the outcome but my drop shadow doesn't work.. But it looks really nice.. Quote The post above probably has crappy art.. Just look past that Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
InteractiveBuddy Posted July 30, 2009 Author Share Posted July 30, 2009 Thanks chris!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris_Rulez Posted July 31, 2009 Share Posted July 31, 2009 Your welcome! And lol @ your interactive buddy avatar. Quote The post above probably has crappy art.. Just look past that Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
InteractiveBuddy Posted July 31, 2009 Author Share Posted July 31, 2009 haha for my avatar i just took the wings from the gohtic font and changed the layer blend mode to color burn then thats what it made. and i see from your signature u watch wwe. i watch it too but i like tna way more Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Onemorelevel Posted August 1, 2009 Share Posted August 1, 2009 Easy and pretty cool way too... Make some text. Add a new layer. Write the same text, but in the color of your shadow. Move it down and right five pixels each. Frosted glass plugin, but not too much. Then gaussian blur, or any blur really. Quote "Being calm can work wonders" ~My gallery~D: Iceberg Tutorial! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris_Rulez Posted August 12, 2009 Share Posted August 12, 2009 I finally got dropshadow and made it.. I love it!! Quote The post above probably has crappy art.. Just look past that Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sokagirl Posted August 17, 2009 Share Posted August 17, 2009 Cool tutorial very simple to follow too , here's what I made . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Supertycoon Posted August 29, 2009 Share Posted August 29, 2009 Hey wait, I've heard nosferatu somewhere... And great tut. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sokagirl Posted August 29, 2009 Share Posted August 29, 2009 And where's that ?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flip Posted August 29, 2009 Share Posted August 29, 2009 This is the same thing as the plugin. It really is. If you experimented with 20 different techniques then you wasted your time. No offense. Quote Gallery Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jordan C King Posted November 9, 2009 Share Posted November 9, 2009 For the outline, I advise using Anti-aliasing and then outline object with your set preferences as... Width: 2+ Softness: 255 - your width = what you must choose. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
qweg33 Posted March 21, 2010 Share Posted March 21, 2010 Thanks. Cool tutorial Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheYoungLogo Posted March 23, 2010 Share Posted March 23, 2010 Nice tutorial,but only if I knew how to get a plugin file. Quote I am The Young Logo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ego Eram Reputo Posted March 23, 2010 Share Posted March 23, 2010 @TheYoungLogo, for information on installing plugins, read this thread: viewtopic.php?f=16&t=2023 Quote ebook: Mastering Paint.NET | resources: Plugin Index | Stereogram Tut | proud supporter of Codelab plugins: EER's Plugin Pack | Planetoid | StickMan | WhichSymbol+ | Dr Scott's Markup Renderer | CSV Filetype | dwarf horde plugins: Plugin Browser | ShapeMaker Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deathdoctor Posted April 6, 2010 Share Posted April 6, 2010 Quote 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aarenlainey Posted April 9, 2010 Share Posted April 9, 2010 This is a nice tutorial but I was looking for a plugin information.Ego I saw the link you have mentioned but some error is coming on that page.Can you post me any other information or link on plugin installation so that I can try this tutorial. Quote Signature edited by Rick: Removed spam link Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ego Eram Reputo Posted April 9, 2010 Share Posted April 9, 2010 All the links are broken in my Plugin Index. I am working with Pyrochild to get them back up as soon as possible. Until then, here is the plugin you are looking for, it's one of this pack by KrisVDM: http://forums.getpai...ted-2010-03-15/ Quote ebook: Mastering Paint.NET | resources: Plugin Index | Stereogram Tut | proud supporter of Codelab plugins: EER's Plugin Pack | Planetoid | StickMan | WhichSymbol+ | Dr Scott's Markup Renderer | CSV Filetype | dwarf horde plugins: Plugin Browser | ShapeMaker Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sarkut Posted April 9, 2010 Share Posted April 9, 2010 HOW TO INSTALL PLUGINS Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pdnnoob Posted April 9, 2010 Share Posted April 9, 2010 OK ive seen a lot of people that have tried to explain how to make a shadow on any piece of text. Ive found that a lot of them are wrong so im making a tutorial to teach people that don't know how to make shadows on text or anything else in paint.net I personally haven't made any tutorials on text shadows, but I still find that offensive. There is no "wrong" in photo editing, just a quality scale from bad to best. This said, I'm placing your tutorial somewhere in the "ok" section. Let's go through your tutorial step by step. 1. Open Paint.net? Even a noob would know to do that. However, if you didn't add that, you would only have 4 steps and five sounds better than four in your title. 2. This is a legitimate step here. I wonder, though, why you used "cut" to delete the white. You don't need the white for anything later, so why not just hit "delete?" I do like how you added the "you now have a transparent background" in there. Recently, I've been seeing some complaints like "I want to delete the gosh darn checkered background, but PDN won't let me" 3. So now, we added our text. You say some things about choosing font, color, etc. Seeing as to how noob the people you seem to be talking to are, you may want to add a little "how to" on changing those options. 4. Why does everyone use outline object on their text? It only makes certain texts look nicer. I'd put an "optional" on this step. 5. So we went through 4 steps so that we could do this one step on some text...To tell the truth, I think you could have just left this with the title and you would have been just as informative as with the tutorial. You have 3 obvious steps and one optional and one that matches the title. Why bother working so hard then? Here's what I got...WITHOUT using anything but the basic PDN tools (layers, text, blur, brightness and contrast, and even the pencil tool). All this tutorial seems to be is an advertisement for the drop shadow plugin. As I said before, why bother? Quote No, Paint.NET is not spyware...but, installing it is an IQ test. ~BoltBait Blend modes are like the filling in your sandwich. It's the filling that can change your experience of the sandwich. ~Ego Eram Reputo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scorpio Posted April 12, 2010 Share Posted April 12, 2010 HOW TO INSTALL PLUGINS This. This aint a tut, your opening paint, putting text down and using a plugin? Quote [center]yoyoyo [img]http://i45.tinypic.com/20p3nyh.png[/img][/center] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EccentricButterfly Posted April 15, 2010 Share Posted April 15, 2010 Thanks for the tutorial. It helps me on IMVU. ^_^ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ego Eram Reputo Posted July 26, 2017 Share Posted July 26, 2017 Added PDF link Quote ebook: Mastering Paint.NET | resources: Plugin Index | Stereogram Tut | proud supporter of Codelab plugins: EER's Plugin Pack | Planetoid | StickMan | WhichSymbol+ | Dr Scott's Markup Renderer | CSV Filetype | dwarf horde plugins: Plugin Browser | ShapeMaker Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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