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Re: A few Paint.NET tips for ROBLOX artists.

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Splecki is not online. Splecki
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10 Mar 2012 10:26 AM
I know a lot of ROBLOXians use Paint.NET to create ads, clothes, group logos, decals of any kind, etc. I also use Paint.NET, and nothing else. It really is a great program once you know how to use it.

A few tips for using it to its best ability:


1. Download the plugin 'Lightrays.'

A lot of people use it. I see it all over ads, especially, all the time. Just Google it and download it. Then install it by putting the file in Effects under the Paint.NET file (I'm pretty sure this is how you do it. I haven't done it for awhile.)

I personally don't use any plugins besides Lightrays. I have a few installed, but they're not that good. In order to be able to use Paint.NET well, you don't need lots of plugins.



2. Know what format to save it under.

This is probably a given for a lot of you, but, if not, I hope this helps. When I first started using Paint.NET, I had literally no idea what I was doing. So, I would save everything I made as a JPEG, which, for one, changed transparent parts to white and didn't allow me to save files with layers.
To save projects with layers, save it as .pdn, and to save something with transparency [for uploading to ROBLOX, at least], save it as a .png.



3. Glow.

Glow is one of the best, most used Effects on Paint.NET. Found under Effects>Photo, it adds a soft 'glow' around the edges of any image (if it has a transparent background or is on a separate layer). To make a thick, smart black glow, put its Radius to 2, its Brightness all the way down to -100, and its contrast all the way up to 100. No matter the color, except like gray or white, the glow (once repeated 2-4 times--the shortcut key for "repeat is Ctrl and F) will appear as a nice black outline. (Like this: http://www.roblox.com/---item?id=74436764) Glow is also great to add around the edges of text.



4. Fonts

The only fonts I use come from a site called "dafont". Just download them and install them by, if you use a PC like me, dragging them into your Fonts folder. Here's a list of names of the ones I use most and like best from dafont, so you can go there, search for them and download them. As a creator of war clan logos, uniforms and ads, they're all a bit militaristic):

-28 Days Later
-American Captain
-Base 05
-BIRTH OF A HERO
-Bitsumishi
-BLACK CAPS
-Capture it
-Capture it 2
-Chicacgo House
-Chintzy CPU BRK
-Coalition
-Continuum Medium
-Conviction
-DeFonte
-Defused
-Dock 51
-Elliot_Swonger
-Fear of a Punk Planet
-Franchise
-Leaf
-MacType
-Skin & Bones
-Soldier
-Starcraft
-Steak
-TRASHED
-Zekton Rg


5. Be familiar with all your tools.

For awhile, I would figure out how to do one thing on Paint.NET, then do that and that only for the next 30 things I made. If you're just starting out with Paint.NET, try Brush Tool as well as Pencil (I only used Brush Tool for a long time when Pencil is way better for what I do now).


Have fun designing. :D I hope I helped at least a bit, and wish I could help more, but I know it's hard explaining over this.


-Splecki
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Shagabash is online. Shagabash
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10 Mar 2012 10:28 AM
i love using paint.net. :)
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highslappy is not online. highslappy
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10 Mar 2012 10:31 AM
Very helpful! I haven't used Paint.NET for awhile now and I forgot most things about it....
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10 Mar 2012 10:32 AM
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10 Mar 2012 10:32 AM
Thanks! I'm tracking this thread.

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Shagabash is online. Shagabash
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10 Mar 2012 10:32 AM
I'm definitely going to download some of those fonts. :3
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Fuutuu is not online. Fuutuu
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10 Mar 2012 10:32 AM
Just download a whole plugin pack.
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Shagabash is online. Shagabash
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10 Mar 2012 10:33 AM
@Pwned:

It's useless for useless people.

^.^
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pokesal is not online. pokesal
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10 Mar 2012 10:33 AM
Very helpful. Thanks.
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Splecki is not online. Splecki
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10 Mar 2012 10:36 AM
@Pwned, it depends. It's not an illustrator and obviously it's not Photoshop. But, really, it can do a lot.

@Fuu, yes, people could do that, but a lot of the plugins I've installed are stupid and basically worthless. Lightrays and Clouds are really the only good ones I've found.
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Splecki is not online. Splecki
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10 Mar 2012 10:37 AM
Oh, for the font, it's *Chicago House, not Chicacgo House.
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10 Mar 2012 10:39 AM
tl;dr
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10 Mar 2012 04:15 PM
I was right! Capture it was the font you used for the Exodus Army logo, correct?
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Splecki is not online. Splecki
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10 Mar 2012 04:17 PM
Yes, it was, charlotte.
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12 Mar 2012 07:54 AM
Very helpful.
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12 Mar 2012 07:55 AM
kewl :33
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12 Mar 2012 07:58 AM

kewl :33


-RT HUSKY
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12 Mar 2012 08:00 AM
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12 Mar 2012 08:02 AM
Photoshop > Other art mediums.
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Splecki is not online. Splecki
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12 Mar 2012 02:40 PM
@Storch, yes, it is. But it's expensive.
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12 Mar 2012 02:42 PM
F5 spam.

LOLOLOLOL.
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12 Mar 2012 06:58 PM
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AgentJazzyJ is not online. AgentJazzyJ
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13 Mar 2012 03:02 PM
A few superclans use my logos created on PDN. It's pretty good peeps.

http://www.roblox.com/Forum/ShowPost.aspxPostID=63627448
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megatrion is not online. megatrion
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13 Mar 2012 09:58 PM
This is great information. Thanks, I plan on giving people some lessons with paint.net and gimp since most people that I try to teach don't have photoshop so I have a hard time.
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