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Paint.NET 3.0 almost ready
#109009
01/25/07 11:33
01/25/07 11:33
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Orange Brat
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Paint.NETRelease Candidate 1 was recently released, and the final might show in February. I like this package much more than GIMP, and I've watched it mature and improve by leaps and bounds for over a year. It has been featured in my Starving Developer's Quickstart Guide for sometime, and I recently elevated it on the list above The GIMP because of all of the improvements and for what is to come (based off the old Roadmap link). It still lacks a few things, and some essential and/or handy features are in this new update. Anyway, I thought I'd do a little bit of spreading the word. It's free and requires .NET Framework 2.0 or 3.0 and Windows XP (SP2 or later), Vista, or Server 2003 (SP1 or later). It also supports and/or takes advantage of 64-bit and dual core processors if you have them.
My User Contributions master list - my initial post links are down but scroll down page to find list to active links
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Re: Paint.NET 3.0 almost ready
[Re: Orange Brat]
#109010
01/25/07 11:48
01/25/07 11:48
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Posts: 7,121 Potsdam, Brandenburg, Germany
Machinery_Frank
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Above GIMP? That is a joke. This is only a small share of functionality of TheGIMP. I created a SCI-FI Texture pack with height and normal maps and painted all of it in GIMP. I never could do all that in Paint.NET.
What could be the advantage of this? Maybe they aim toward natural paining? But then Corel's painter or DogwaffleProjects tools are still better with more natural medias.
At the end Paint.NET is just a better PaintBrush and never becomes a Photoshop, GIMP, Painter or PaintShop. At least not in the next time.
But it is a nice tool for beginnner, clear interface and nice GUI.
Models, Textures and Games from Dexsoft
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Re: Paint.NET 3.0 almost ready
[Re: Orange Brat]
#109012
01/25/07 12:43
01/25/07 12:43
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gri
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hi,
Try to flip a Selection (vert/horz.) and you stand already on the border of this tool. (I know there is a plugin for that!)
I use paint.net as fast imageviewer and for quick changes.
Gimp is mighty and I use it in most cases. But the best for Textureworks is DeepPaint2D (free but a little outdated). I wish that gimp had such brushes like DP2D.
,gri
"Make a great game or kill it early" (Bruce Shelley, Ensemble Studios)
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Re: Paint.NET 3.0 almost ready
[Re: Orange Brat]
#109014
01/26/07 08:56
01/26/07 08:56
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gri
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hi orange, Quote:
Selection flipping has been in the program for many months. It works as expected and requires no extra plugin...
Wow! So please tell me how.
,gri
"Make a great game or kill it early" (Bruce Shelley, Ensemble Studios)
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Re: Paint.NET 3.0 almost ready
[Re: Orange Brat]
#109016
01/26/07 10:54
01/26/07 10:54
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gri
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No..no..no!
this flips the entire image!
I make a selection with the rectangle/lasso tool and want to flip this selection. This is what I mean.
So tell me again.
,gri
"Make a great game or kill it early" (Bruce Shelley, Ensemble Studios)
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Re: Paint.NET 3.0 almost ready
[Re: Dan Silverman]
#109018
01/26/07 23:22
01/26/07 23:22
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laethyn
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I'm not sure what is meant by "flipping" the selection, but I did the following:
1. Make my selection 2. Copy the selection 3. Create a new layer 4. Paste my copied selection into the new layer 5. Layers >> Flip >> Horizontal/Vertical
Selection has now been "flipped". Took all of 3 seconds. And that's the first time I've ever opened the software.
Read the manual, it's a good place to start learning ~ ulillillia
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