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It seems like a useful feature, but I'm not sure how it'd be done without either making surprising UX or doing some work, and I know what time Rick can afford on this project he's spending on higher-priority items.

I like the way Blender would do it, which is to type X or Y for the axis, followed by a number and enter to confirm. It's super-useful, but since that's not an established pattern here, it would be no better and probably worse than setting the size with a button in the tooltip area.

Thanks for the suggestion, that partially works. Grabbing corners changes height and width. Grabbing top and side markers is a bit fiddly to exactly grab, but I can adjust with arrows as you suggest, but the accuracy seems to be 2 pixels - so not perfect but an improvement.

Ego's suggestion to grab corner and use arrows is sometimes useful, but actually lines and shapes change size in increments of up to 3px depending on zoom level. I really want precise sizes to 1px. The only way I can do this is to keep moving the mouse until it is correct. This frequently fails and I have to start again.

Just speaking for myself and my flow here. I also do tons of resizes to get just the right sizes, ratios, perspectives...and I have found manual resizing(often times while holding Shift) easy and quick.

This is something that can be done via g'mic plugin. Only problem is that it is a clumsy solution as it requires loading gmic-qt and not to mention coding(I prefer to code other filters). Your other option is to code up a pdn plugin. It's one or the other, either are clumsy.

I am away from this forum for undetermined amount of time: If you really need anything related to my PDN plugin or my G'MIC filter within G'MIC plugin, then you can contact me via Paint.NET discord, and mention me.

Another thing to do is enable ruler on and draw a series of line with antialias turn off, 1 pixel size, and create different grid of colors, or to save time, use this plugin, to establish position of grid:

This menu provides quick access to a number of online resources like the paint.net website, online documentation and the paint.net forum. There is also a link to send feedback and bug reports to the developer of paint.net.

This opens the default web browser on the section of the paint.net forum dedicated to publishing tutorials. Tutorials run the gamut from easy to advanced, including such effects as "fire text", exploding planets, and how to draw cartoons. A specific section covers tutorials designed to introduce beginners to paint.net's basic features. This is a great place to start learning how to use paint.net.

This is a suggestion for future versions, to give the ability to set a manual location for an image or selection, and using this ability to give precise display of images, photos or graphics of the sorts.

The reason I say this is because I feel it would make precision much more in-depth, and make it easier to manage the graphics on the display. Another feature that marries this concept is alignment, with the ability to make certain objects on a specific layer to have that similar x or y location to that of another object, with the ability to enable/disable alignment.

While alignment is more of a vector feature, it would make graphic drawing much easier, especially if Paint.NET marries some vector features to improve on it's current bezier curve interpretation of line drawing.

Thank you for posting the alignment plugin; however, I still feel that using the arrow keys is not as efficient as setting your own co-ordinates for a specific object as it would take longer to achieve a perfect result.

Edit: In addition, while the object alignment plugin is good, it will not achieve my suggestion that is, as described above, "Another feature that marries this concept is alignment, with the ability to make certain objects on a specific layer to have that similar x or y location to that of another object, with the ability to enable/disable alignment."

Hello and Welcome.

In the first part of this tutorial I will try to explain step by step on how to make a drop shadow. (without plugins)
In the second part of this tutorial I will give examples of using plugins to make drop shadows. (since I am just giving examples of the plugins, I don't have pictures for all of the steps, so if you need more pictures or details, please see the first part of this tutorial.)

If you are new or a beginner to paint.net, plugins are often the recommended way of doing things and they often make life easy, but sometimes manually making drop shadows lets you have more control over the shadow, and not everyone likes to adventure into plugins. So, I will show you how to enjoy drop shadows with and without plugins.

To follow this tutorial easier, I recommend you know paint.net's layers and how to work with them.

For this tutorial I will be using this picture :



Clicking on "show" will reveal the steps and content.

Part One - Making a Drop Shadow.

Updated! Drop Shadow Plugin Examples Added!
I only added two plugin examples, I know there are others but I didn't do my research to remember them or find them. If you want other plugins demonstrated, or if you know other plugins that are good for making drop shadows, let me know about them.

Photoshop is able to do manual shadows but it can also render shadows as an effect much like paint.net's plugins. I personally have not used photoshop to make shadows, but I have seen photoshop tutorials and I have used other paid programs that function similarly to photoshop.

I am very happy that paint.net can do drop shadows, since drop shadows are simple and fun.

I copy and pasted a picture off the internet to a 900x900 file in paint.net. I'm trying to resize this picture exactly to 300x300 because I plan on putting a few more pictures on this file. Problem is, as far as I can tell, there is no way to resize selected pixels (aka a copy and pasted picture) other than manually resizing it with your cursor.

Is there anyway I can set the exact resolution I want this copy and pasted picture? when I go to image -> resize, it resizes the whole file instead of just the picture, despite the fact that I have the picture selected.

Preamble: For many years I have been used to using PaintShopPro and one of the techniques I haven't yet discovered in Paint.NET is how to expand or contract an irregular selection by a specified number of pixels.

I don't think EER's method above will cope with those too well? (but could be wrong!) (angle of edge to direction of expansion, critical?)

Another way:
It's tricky to expand or contract a selection and plugins are not allowed to change the selection.
However if the selected area is copied and pasted into a new transparent layer it then becomes an 'object'.
To expand that object (when that whole layer is selected) there are two plugins both called 'Outline Object' one by BoltBait (above your post) and one by 'Pyrochild'.
To diminish the object the 'AAAssistant' plugin is useful.

Plugins can be found via the plugin index, generously maintained by EER (post above mine). There is a link to it in his signature.

I hope that's what you meant Tomokatu!
Sorry it is not a perfect soloution - there are more complicated variants! (blurring the created object and changing the opacity)
If you meant rectangular selections, stick with EER's method above.

Actually there kind of is (other than Boltbaits solution) - it's hidden under Layers Menu. It's called Rotate Zoom or Ctrl+Shift + Z. Best if you paste into new layer the deselect (Ctrl+D). You can adjust magnification amount numerically. It will keep the height/width ratio intact.

That may be a poor way to ask this. What I mean is I want to select an area, and then make that selection conform to a specified dimension, like 5 x 7, or 8 x 10. I'd also like to move the selected area around before I finally crop it.

To move something, select it, then press the Move button (next to the box selection button) or press the M key on your keyboard. When trying to move something, make sure you drag the cursor somewhere away from the thing you are moving or you might grab the handles that let you stretch/shrink the thing you have selected by accident.

Well, an exact dimension. :!: 5x7, for example, can be any number of pixels. If the size of a selected area could be increased or decreased in a corner, the dimensions wouldn't change altough the size would.

Ok...in the Picture It! Photo manual (from Microsoft's website), it seems that the resizing procedures are the same as in Paint .NET. You can either select an image and then drag the resize handles, or you can go to the menu at the top of the screen ("Format" in Picture It!, and "Image" in Paint.NET) and get then click on "Resize Image". It seems that in both programs, the window that shows up should have the same things on it (a percentage increase box, custom # inputs, and unit selections).

I do not want to resize the image. I want to select an area of the picture, make that selection have a specified dimension, possibly resize the selected area keeping that dimension, and then crop the image.

You can see the area I selected is clear, the rest of the image is kinda blurred. You can see the pull-down menu on the left which gives me a number of dimension options. If I select any of those options, the selected area in the original picture changes accordingly. Now I can alter the size of my selected area by using the resize handles in the corners, which will not alter the dimensions. I can shift the selected area around the original image by moving my mouse-pointer inside the selected area. When I'm satisfied that I've selected exactly the area I want, I click the Done button in the lower left hand corner. Now I can save the results as a new image, cropped to the dimensions I want.

When you have it in the place you want, click the "Crop to Selection" button that is at the top of the Paint.NET window next to the Paste button or go to the "Image" menu and click "Crop to Selection" or press Ctrl+Shift+X.

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