Re: Paint Image
Bubba Lual
You want to insert the image..... on top of another image? if so open the main image then use Layers > import from file to add the second image. it will be automatically added as a new layer. If the second image is much larger, the canvas might be resized too. Try it and see how you get on. Feel free to report back if you have any problems.
Do you mean you want to load the image? If you open paint.net and click the File tab at the top left, then click Open, you'll get a dialog box that lets you open the image. Navigate to wherever you saved the image. If you got it from the internet, it will be in a folder called Downloads.
OK, I get what your saying, but I can't get the image on the second layer. When I do, it shows the image on the top of the screen in it's own little box. When I make a new layer, and insert it there, it does the same thing.
Then you have to go to another view, called the UV/Image Editor, then click the Image menu, and choose Save Image. Your texture painting will eventually be saved to this separate image file, on your computer (not in the .blend file).
If you want to paint another texture on top of this, repeat all the steps above to create a new, distinct image for it. If you want to texture paint another part of the object or another object, repeat all the above to create a new, distinct image for that, too.
Some of it seems perfectly logical, but I doubt a new user would ever imagine that saving the blender file would actually delete your the texture painting work. I want to help others avoid the pain.
Now, there is a post on rightclickselect.com that asks for a better handling of this, and I gave my thoughts there - like save at intervals to iterations, save it to the tmp folder, save at close to the specified texture path or file path on OS and same for crashes, etc.
This gets really annoying really fast. So I'm asking for a feature that'd let me save each layer as a separate file with a click of a button rather than me having to do it manually. I feel that it may help other game devs who use paint.net as well.
I would really appreciate it if someone could simply tell me step by step how to resize an image. I dropped a photo into my workspace on to an existing larger background. I held down shift-left mouse button-and dragged the image to the size I want. Now what do I do? How do Imake it actually resize or "scale" down the image? I am missing something very simple here. It's just sitting there highlighted in blue.
Have you tried Image > Resize? It will save you manually scaling down the image and cropping the canvas to the new size, as you have been doing*. From the Resize dialog, you can change the dimensions of the image to whatever you so desire; it might be in your better interest to keep the checkbox marked 'Maintain aspect ratio' ticked to keep the proportions of the image the same throughout the resizing procedure.
May I assume that you are wanting to remove the remainder of the background canvas that is left around the image? You have your image on the layer scaled down, and you want to reduce the overall 12 x 12 canvas to the size of the scaled image? If so, maybe the footnote from my last post would be of help here:
I have a 12 x 12 background for a scrapbook page. I dropped a 4x6 photo on top of it. The photo is too large and I would like to resize the entire photo to be smaller. I don't need to crop any of it off, I just need it resized to maybe 3x5. Shift, Left click, drag makes the blue box smaller, but what do I do next to make the photo actually get resized. At this point its just sitting there...the large photo with the highlighted box on top of it. Im sorry to be a pain, but nothing in the help or tutorials has anything as basic as this. LOL
The blue box indicates an active selection where manipulation only applies to the selection, not the pixels within the selection. You will want to use the Move Pixels tool ( ) instead of the Move Selection tool ( ) to adjust the selection. Now the pixels the selection is composed of will be effected, i.e. the image.
I've been able to do it with Vertex, but when I do it with the Image Sequence setting, I'm able to output the .png files successfully, but when I render, I don't see any paint. Could someone walk me through the steps involved?
Hit New to give the plane a texture. For Type, choose "Image or Movie". Scroll down to the header Image, and click on Open. Navigate to the folder where you outputted your images to and select the first image (probably called paintmap0001.png) and click on Open Image. Then look for Source, which you should set to Image Sequence.
Hello, in this tutorial I want to show you a technique that I call Gradient Blending. I will be using gradient blending to blend the object of one image into another image. There are several ways of blending pictures, merging pictures, combining pictures, merging objects, other image manipulation techniques, etc, and this technique using the gradient tool is one of them.
I've tried to write this tutorial in a way that is aimed at paint.net beginners. If you have suggestions for this tutorial, or suggestions on how I might do future tutorials, please send all suggestions through a personal message (pm).
If you have any questions about any of the steps, need help, or want to share your blended pictures, feel free to ask anything or share in the comments area below.
For this tutorial my Main Image will be a picture of a flowery field with a horse, while my Insert Image is a pond, and the pond will be the Object that I blend into my Main Image, the field.
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Field Image :
Pond Image :
Here is the combined picture that I will be showing you how to make. And just for fun I added a faint reflection to the pond using the Water Reflection plugin (and yes, I have bonus steps where I show how to add the reflection.)
Note: For this tutorial, I resized each sample image down to around 800 by 533 to stay within the forum rules (max image size is 800x600). Also, smaller image sizes are easier for me to work with on my low RAM PC. However, normally, if your PC can handle working with larger images, then it is best to keep the images large and later create different smaller sizes at the end of the project.
1) To blend the images, have each image on their own layer, the Main Image as the bottom layer and your Insert Image/Object as the top layer. Then, if it isn't already your active layer, click on the Object Layer.
2) Cut out your object.
Important : When cutting out your object, you don't need to make a perfect cutout, you want to make a roomy and spacious cutout. The excess spacing around your object is what will be faded to blend the edges with the rest of the image.
To cut out your object you can either use the method seen in this other tutorial, or if your object is like mine you can do what I did...
Cc, thank you for taking the time to do this tutorial. The screenshots, the patients...detailed step-by-step info. This is such a TRULY well done tutorial. I've saved this one, too. (I'm making my own custom PDN tutorial 'nerd binder'...complete with plastic page protectors to slide the pages into.)
mtPaint is a lightweight equivalent of Microsoft Paint. It is lighter (requires only 1 MB to install because it depends on GTK which Ubuntu has out-of-the-box) than Pinta, which needs 20 MB disc space on a standard Ubuntu install because of the Mono dependency.
You just need an good introduction. At Meet the Gimp there are many, many comfortable video tutorials. It isn't easy to not get lost in the big number of options with gimp, but sooner or later you need more, than some simple program is offering, so it might be easier to learn one program in depth than first an easy one, and then the more complicated one too.
It captures screenshots, but it also has an edit mode for the screenshots (or some file you can load from your hard drive) with some basic drawing tools, which are well thought-out and quite usable for inserting arrows and numbers into images, cropping, etc. Things you do to images to cut +paste them into presentations, after editing.
It used to work fine until a couple of weeks ago. Now I get the following popup "Adobe Acrobat cannot start the image editing application you've specified. Verify the image editing application location on the Content Editing panel in Preferences". I did as instructed...and added the path to MS Paint program. I restarted the Adobe DC several times, but keep getting the same popup. Every time I go to check the Preferences, it shows the correct path. Adobe just fails to open MS Paint.
I get the same message, but I am using Adobe Illustrator. Up until a few weeks ago it worked, now recently it doesn't, nothing in the help files. I have uninstalled several times and repaired installation at least 3x, but nothing helps. Is this a recent defect? Version 2023.003.20284
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