Sarkut Posted March 2, 2011 Share Posted March 2, 2011 Yes, you can make a Custom Brushes folder in that location. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mitzumikare Posted March 2, 2011 Share Posted March 2, 2011 okay...put the plugins in the proper folder...restarted....uninstalled paint.net...reinstallled paint.net...and my brushes/effects are STILL missing. I have paint.net v3.5.7 and windows 7 os. what am i doing wrong this time? Quote "Even the Gods wish to not be alone..." My Deviant Art Page/Fanficts and Other Links/My Gallery/Personal Website @MitzumiK [And yes, I did draw my Avatar. see it full-sized on my deviantart page.] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sarkut Posted March 2, 2011 Share Posted March 2, 2011 (edited) What is the format of the brushes? If they are .abr files they need to be extracted before they can be used. Post #62 Edited March 2, 2011 by Sarkut Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ego Eram Reputo Posted March 2, 2011 Share Posted March 2, 2011 ...and my brushes/effects are STILL missing. ....what am i doing wrong this time? If you are having trouble with a specific plugin, like Custom Brushes, please post your problem in the thread related to that plugin. Please also read through the entire thread relating to that plugin as you may find that your problem has cropped up before and the solution has already been posted. 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...
mitzumikare Posted March 2, 2011 Share Posted March 2, 2011 What is the format of the brushes? If they are .abr files they need to be extracted before they can be used. Post #62 http://forums.getpai...post__p__315365 they are all .dll i just copy and pasted them into the proper folder like everyone said and...nothing. @Ego Eram Reputo: and i don't mean just brushes, i mean any effects i've downloaded so far. Quote "Even the Gods wish to not be alone..." My Deviant Art Page/Fanficts and Other Links/My Gallery/Personal Website @MitzumiK [And yes, I did draw my Avatar. see it full-sized on my deviantart page.] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sarkut Posted March 2, 2011 Share Posted March 2, 2011 (edited) Are you referring to CustomBrushesMini.dll? That's a plugin that allows the use of custom brushes in Paint.NET. Any brushes that go in the Custom Brushes folder, to be used by Smudge, need to be image files. Like .png preferably. ============================= What are the .dll file names, specifically? Edited March 2, 2011 by Sarkut Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mitzumikare Posted March 2, 2011 Share Posted March 2, 2011 its the pryochild basic pack with smudge and metalize and liquify and twist....none of those work. I even got the custombrushesmini.dll and did as the readme.txt said....that doesn't pop up either. Quote "Even the Gods wish to not be alone..." My Deviant Art Page/Fanficts and Other Links/My Gallery/Personal Website @MitzumiK [And yes, I did draw my Avatar. see it full-sized on my deviantart page.] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sarkut Posted March 2, 2011 Share Posted March 2, 2011 (edited) OK. Those aren't brushes, those are effect plugins. And they do belong in the Effects folder, not the Custom Brushes folder. If you have them installed in the Effects folder already, close and open Paint.NET. If they still don't show in the Effects menu or a sub-menu, make a full-size screenshot of your open Effects folder showing the contents and the full path in the address field. Post the direct link of the screenshot here. ============================================== http://www.take-a-screenshot.org/ http://imageshack.us/ Edited March 2, 2011 by Sarkut Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mitzumikare Posted March 2, 2011 Share Posted March 2, 2011 (edited) effect folder. [had to use photobucket] http://i656.photobucket.com/albums/uu287/mitzumikare/effects.jpg Edited March 2, 2011 by mitzumikare Quote "Even the Gods wish to not be alone..." My Deviant Art Page/Fanficts and Other Links/My Gallery/Personal Website @MitzumiK [And yes, I did draw my Avatar. see it full-sized on my deviantart page.] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sarkut Posted March 2, 2011 Share Posted March 2, 2011 (edited) http://img638.imageshack.us/img638/8140/rdhaaacq.png Clickable thumbnail. Delete the ones inside the red outline. Do so with Paint.NET closed. Edited March 2, 2011 by Sarkut Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sarkut Posted March 2, 2011 Share Posted March 2, 2011 Also, from the appearance of the icons in your screenshot, your computer's file association for .dll is now Paint.NET. That is not normal. If you want to restore the .dll file association to normal default, you might want to make use of this tutorial: http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/19449-default-file-type-associations-restore.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mitzumikare Posted March 2, 2011 Share Posted March 2, 2011 wait, red outline? huh?? Quote "Even the Gods wish to not be alone..." My Deviant Art Page/Fanficts and Other Links/My Gallery/Personal Website @MitzumiK [And yes, I did draw my Avatar. see it full-sized on my deviantart page.] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sarkut Posted March 2, 2011 Share Posted March 2, 2011 Click on the thumbnail in my previous post. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pyrochild Posted March 2, 2011 Share Posted March 2, 2011 wait, red outline? huh?? He posted a picture and outlines some files in red. You need to delete those files. Quote ambigram signature by Kemaru [i write plugins and stuff] If you like a post, upvote it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mitzumikare Posted March 2, 2011 Share Posted March 2, 2011 okay...restored file assocations....deleted red outlined stuff.... finally got it! thankies so much!!!!!! Quote "Even the Gods wish to not be alone..." My Deviant Art Page/Fanficts and Other Links/My Gallery/Personal Website @MitzumiK [And yes, I did draw my Avatar. see it full-sized on my deviantart page.] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
artaxt Posted March 6, 2011 Share Posted March 6, 2011 I seem to be having a problem with plug-ins not being accessible as well. Below is the contents of my Effects directory: I have "unblocked" the DLLS. Reinstalled Paint.Net. Tried creating an Effects directory in the Paint.NET User Effect directory and everything else I can think of. What am I missing? Thank you very much for the help. ***Eventually a cool sig will go here *** Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sarkut Posted March 7, 2011 Share Posted March 7, 2011 What version# of Paint.NET are you using? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
artaxt Posted March 7, 2011 Share Posted March 7, 2011 What version# of Paint.NET are you using? Latest and greatest, 3.5.8. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sarkut Posted March 7, 2011 Share Posted March 7, 2011 (edited) If you are also using the latest version of pyrochild plugins, then I don't know. Maybe run PdnRepair.exe Typically: "C:\Program Files\Paint.NET\PdnRepair.exe" Edited March 7, 2011 by Sarkut Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
artaxt Posted March 7, 2011 Share Posted March 7, 2011 If you are also using the latest version of pyrochild plugins, then I don't know. Maybe run PdnRepair.exe Typically: "C:\Program Files\Paint.NET\PdnRepair.exe" Thank you for the suggestion. Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to have helped. I'll see whether I can get the program to work on another computer. Hopefully, it's just some interaction with something else I'm running. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pyrochild Posted March 7, 2011 Share Posted March 7, 2011 Open the Utilities menu and select View Plugin Load Errors. If it's not grayed out, post what you see. Quote ambigram signature by Kemaru [i write plugins and stuff] If you like a post, upvote it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
artaxt Posted March 8, 2011 Share Posted March 8, 2011 Open the Utilities menu and select View Plugin Load Errors. If it's not grayed out, post what you see. Unfortunately, it is grayed out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sarkut Posted March 8, 2011 Share Posted March 8, 2011 You could try this: Delete all DLLs in the Effects folder. Delete the plugin zip that you downloaded. Clear your browser's cache. Clear Browser Cache Re-download, and re-install the plugins. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SmokingReb Posted March 25, 2011 Share Posted March 25, 2011 I'm an intermediate newbie;-), means I get there on the 3rd or 4th try. Maybe the 5th or 6th try. Just installed several plugin pac's for the first time. Couldn't find some of the effects where they should of been in the drop down menus, then noticed I had put a folder containing some of the plugin's in the effects folder. Went back, moved the DLLs files from the folder to the effects folder, deleted the old folder, aha the new effects were now on the menu. So, for all of you who can't find an effect after you have installed the plugin, make sure you only put the DLLs files in the effects folder. I know, simple thing, but..............we're newbies.:-) Another general suggestion I've found useful after using Paint 2 or 3 years is build your own help file. Make a folder in your documents section or where ever, name it Paint Tutorials or some such thing, the when you come to the forums, find your answer, copy/paste into a note and save to your folder. In 6 months it will save you a trip back to the forums, trying to remember just where you found whatever you needed. The guys who create all these neat things put info on where to find stuff, how to use it and so on which I have copied and pasted into my Paint folder for the plugins I nabbed. Great reference. Thanks for all the hard work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ego Eram Reputo Posted March 26, 2011 Share Posted March 26, 2011 Just remember that not all plugins go in the /Effects/ folder. Plugins that extend Paint.Net's ability to load/save certain types of files (we call them filetype plugins) go in the /Filetypes/ folder. 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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