Archive for the ‘Community Spotlight’ Category

Ed Harvey’s Effects updated for Paint.NET v3.20

Thursday, December 20th, 2007

Ed Harvey has made quite a name for himself on the Paint.NET forum by consistently releasing some of the best and most comprehensive effect plugins. He has just released an updated version of his effects plugin pack that supports Paint.NET v3.20 and uses some of its IndirectUI capabilities. I highly recommend ...

Paint.NET Tutorial Spotlight: Make Realistic Eyes, by Ash

Monday, July 30th, 2007

"Ash," a member of the Paint.NET forums since December, has been impressing everyone with what he's been capable of doing with Paint.NET. For starters, his avatar picture is this image: And yes, it was made completely in Paint.NET! You can find the full size version, along with several other of his ...

Paint.NET Plugin spotlight: Curves+

Sunday, June 24th, 2007

Paint.NET v2.6 added an adjustment called Curves. A member of the forum, pyrochild, has recently released a new plugin called Curves+ that takes the source code for Curves and builds on it to add several cool new features. In fact, this is the first plugin I've seen that copies code ...

Paint.NET Forums and Plugin spotlight: Shapes 3D

Sunday, June 17th, 2007

I'm hoping this will be the first of many "spotlight" blog posts. I think the forums have become, interestingly enough, an integral feature of Paint.NET ("Web 2.0 meets Desktop 2.0?"), where a large selection of user-generated tutorials and plugins have been made available for free. Free is always good, and ...