Today, I will show you another way to crop an object from its background with paint.net. I have already explained the contrast method which is quite fast to implement but unfortunately not applicable to every situation, especially when the contrast difference between the object to outline and the background isn’t clear. In that case, there…
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Paint.net : Smoke effect
Today, I will show you how to add smoke on top of a chimney thanks to paint.net and few plugins. First, here is the starting picture : As you can see, it has a very nice chimney from which we will make smoke emerge. Here are the steps to add smoke on this picture :…
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It has been a long time since I hadn’t performed a paint.net tutoriel. I have received a request through the contact form to assist with the creation of a rose window. I have decided to write a tutorial based on this work as it is very interesting from a layer manipulation prospective. The final render…
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Again, another tutorial for paint.net. I will teach you how to easily crop a picture. We start from this nice picture representing arms linked over a lawn. Thanks to the technique exposed below, you will be able to isolate arms. This technique can be reused to crop objects and people from the background on a photo. To perform…
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You will find here a new tutorial for paint.net. I will teach you how to add a nice frame to a picture. In order to achieve this, you need a frame and a picture to frame : It is better to have a frame a bit larger than the picture to frame. If you don’t…
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I have decided to create another tutorial for Paint.Net! It has been a long time since I haven’t provided one. So today, I will teach you how to age a photo thanks to few mouse clicks. Based on the result, we can say that we can achieve miracles with Paint.NET. When you know Photoshop price, it is just amazing…
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Here is another tutorial for paint.net that will show you how to perform a well known effect : the fade edges effect. This is a nice effect for pictures, especially if you want to embed these into a website. Here are the different steps : 1/ Start from the picture to modify; 2/ Add a…
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Here is a new paint.net tutorial that will teach you how to add rays of light to picture, as of the sun rays within the sky. Here are the steps : 1/ Start from a blue screen; 2/ Add a new layer (Ctrl + Shift + N); 3/ Select the top layer and fill it…
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Here is a new paint.net tutorial : the addition of a stormy sky on a picture. Here is the starting picture : And now, here are the different steps : 1/ Select the clouds area (S key with 50% tolerance); 2/ Create a new layer (CTRL + Shift + N) and select it; 3/ As primary…
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Here is a new paint.net tutorial where I will explain how to create a parchment paper as the ones from the Middle Ages. Then, you could use it as a start for medieval style creations. It is quite simple to realize this effect with paint.net. I am quite sure you will be impressed by what…
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