Japhasca Posted July 12, 2014 Share Posted July 12, 2014 Forgive me if this has been brought up before, I did search the forum and check the "Popular Feature Requests " thread, and I was actually surprised I didn't see it. (And if the function is there under some other name, please let me know, I couldn't find it.) Basically, for anyone who does not know how skew works, you select an object, and then (depending on the interface) punch in new angles and/or drag the selection to a new shape, and then the selection is mapped onto the new shape. Below is an example I made quickly in an old version of photoshop. Left to right: The original, a pixel art door. The second, skewed 45 degrees. The third, a door skewed for a perspective drawing. Fourth, going nuts! Obviously these are aliased, but anti-aliasing would be a needed option as well. I figure this would be useful at least for people like me who are doing pixel and sprite work, and anyone who wants to make iso tiles. I'm sure others could find a use as well. Cheers! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ego Eram Reputo Posted July 12, 2014 Share Posted July 12, 2014 Here's a few options: 1. Press Ctrl + Shift + Z (Rotate/Zoom). Rotate the roller-ball control about a bit. The outer ring rotates the layer. 2. Oblique plugin 3. Perspective Effect Of course there are loads more options than this quick preview image shows. 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...
Riddley Posted July 12, 2014 Share Posted July 12, 2014 There's already an oblique plugin that does that. Quote Check out my gallery/archive: here Just keep on keeping on. ✌ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Japhasca Posted July 12, 2014 Author Share Posted July 12, 2014 (edited) Thanks for the info. I'll do a look into the oblique plugin as the link is either dead or wrong. The perspective thing looks interesting; I am aware of the roller-ball control and I do plan on using it for something else, but thanks all the same. It really depends what the oblique plugin does; honestly, the main reason I want a skew function is, if you look closely at the 2nd picture of my original post, you'll see that it's not perspective-accurate; it's still a parallelogram (with opposing angle sets of 45 degrees and 135 degrees.) This is actually the effect I'm going for; it's also why I mentioned iso tiles, as they are usually created this way and are not perspective-accurate. I will check into oblique plug-ins and see what I can do. Edited July 12, 2014 by Japhasca Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cc4FuzzyHuggles Posted July 12, 2014 Share Posted July 12, 2014 You might like distort plugins : TR's Distort This -- http://forums.getpaint.net/index.php?/topic/26672-trs-distort-this-plugin-v263-feb-12th-2014/ Quadrilateral Reshape from this pack -- http://forums.getpaint.net/index.php?/topic/13003-evans-effects-open-source-as-of-october-16-2012/ Quote *~ Cc4FuzzyHuggles Gallery ~* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomy Posted July 18, 2014 Share Posted July 18, 2014 I asked the same question before, and searched the same search, but the best answer I got was Quadrilateral Reshape (which is like what you're trying to do but the reverse). It was already mentioned here and probably the best you'll get for the time being. Quote A=C/2*rYes, I am a Janus. Yes, I figured that out myself. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
david.atwell Posted July 18, 2014 Share Posted July 18, 2014 Cc4FH already mentioned Quadrilateral Reshape, tomy. Quote The Doctor: There was a goblin, or a trickster, or a warrior... A nameless, terrible thing, soaked in the blood of a billion galaxies. The most feared being in all the cosmos. And nothing could stop it, or hold it, or reason with it. One day it would just drop out of the sky and tear down your world.Amy: But how did it end up in there?The Doctor: You know fairy tales. A good wizard tricked it.River Song: I hate good wizards in fairy tales; they always turn out to be him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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