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its choppy when i move things on the canvas and also when resizing

im mr frog this is my show i paint the plane

I am one of those people who have been surprised that Paint.net didn't have a way to skew, or distort an image. I was lead to the plug-in Distort This!. But I found it difficult to understand how to use it. Now that I have a solution, I thought I would let others know how I use it.

I am taking photographs of some of my artwork, all of which are painted on rectangular canvases, and hanging on walls. I do my best to position the camera at 90 degrees to the canvas and over the centre. Then I get well back and use the longest focal length possible to try to eliminate barrel distortion.

But there is sometimes perspective distortion no matter how carefully I proceed.

It took me a long time to learn how to use Distort This! to correct the problem of distortion. What I eventually did is to use the plug-in on the entire photograph, unwanted edges and all. clicking on the "reset nubs and work area" puts the nubs in the 4 corners of the photograph. I found the handles (nubs) can only be used to pull the 4 corners inward as needed, and can't move outwards past the edges of the photograph. In this way, the sides of the art in the photograph can be made perfectly vertical, and the top and bottom of the art can be made perfectly horizontal as well.

How can one determine when the art is squared up? I've not found a way to put a grid on the screen, but an easy solution is to use the top, bottom, or either side of the Distort This! dialogue box as a movable ruler. Just slide the dialogue box very close to the canvas edge on the photograph and move the nub to create a perfectly vertical or horizontal edge.

I hope this is of some help.

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I downloaded Paint.net today and it has this glitch for some reason. This isn't exactly new but it happens with Medal as well.

I'm trying to make an iron on print for a shirt. In paint.net, the darken tool for blend layer works perfectly, like the first image. But, when I try to save or copy that image, I lose the transparent background the darken tool created, as the second picture shows on the arms and face. I need a way to extract the transparent result I get on my top layer that comes from the darken blend mode - how do I do it? If not, maybe I can layer down and magic select my image but I'd really prefer to get the image of the thinker with parts made transparent

This app works so well for pixelart

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I recently built a c# based .net library that can read/write the new .paint file formats used in the newer versions of MS Paint- and then added a plugin to it for Paint.net to enable import/export of the .paint files.

Quick background- MS Paint added layer support to MS Paint some time back (I think 2024 era), but the initial release didn't have a way to save the layers to a file- so it got flattened if you wanted to save your work. Pretty laughable.

But in a more recent release, MS Paint added a new project file that would let you save your full layer stack to a project file, so you can now save and reopen them later. The new file type/extension they added is .paint. And with the plugin, you can work with these files directly in Paint.Net as well.

One caveat with the import/export- the "background" layer in ms paint is not a real image layer, just a single-color fixed layer at the bottom of the stack- and so this layer is stored as a single color setting inside the .paint file. The current plugin keeps this layer info in the .paint file but does not show this layer in the imported Paint.Net project-- so your background will appear transparent instead of a solid color. I'm open to suggestions for other ways to address this and have some ideas, but would like to hear any suggestions the community has.

It's also an initial/early release so please let me know any feedback or bugs if you find any.

It's hosted here- https://github.com/setiri/mspaintlib

i assume this would be easy to look up but i actually didn't find much, so i'm asking here. please and thanks

I'm working on a game project and I want to add this effect to my map, but Paint.NET doesn't have many good options to create it. I know there's the diagonal fill using the paint bucket, but it's too thin and too spaced out. There's also another way using the gradient with repetition, but it's kind of annoying because I can't choose the exact thickness and angle I want.

Does anyone know any plugin or method to create this effect in Paint.NET v5?

I found this texture from Roblox Transparent but I don't know how does anyone know and if so how do you do it?

If it's not possible in paintdotnet what should I use

Cause these are my best with the oil painting

I'm trying to convert the black hex sides to the aqua color.  As you can see, when I do that, shadows remain.  I've tried all sliders and settings with the Recolor tool, what am I missing?

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The latest work i've made. Nothing deep, just some color correction and a sprinkle of improvised montage for soul.

I am attempting to change some simple textures in a game. I have done this in the past but now it seems the texture files have changes somewhat and as you can see are barely visible. Changing the opacity does not increase the image or does there appear to be any layers to turn off. How does this all work when in game they are bright as any other image? Is there a way to view the file fully? Thanks for any suggestions I receive.

Hello, I'm new to the subreddit. I've been using paint.net for about 6 years now and I just wanted to share some of the posters I've made using it. I have LOTTSSSSSS more so let me know if you would be interested in seeing more!