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Getting Started with Paint.NET
by Shoban Kumar, Andros T. Sturgeon
Getting Started with Paint.NET
Getting Started with Paint.NET
Table of Contents
Getting Started with Paint.NET
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewer
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Preface
What this book covers
What you need for this book
Who this book is for
Conventions
Reader feedback
Customer support
Downloading the color images of this book
Errata
Piracy
Questions
1. Welcome to Paint.NET
System requirements
Downloading and installing Paint.NET
Summary
2. The Paint.NET Workspace
Opening and saving an image
Work area windows
The title bar
The menu bar
The toolbar
The image canvas
The Colors window
The status bar
The Layers window
The History window
The image list
File types
Summary
3. The Tools in Paint.NET
Selection tools
Rectangle Select (shortcut key S)
Lasso Select (shortcut key S)
Ellipse Select (shortcut key S)
Selection modes
Replace
Add (union)
Subtract
Intersect
Invert ("xor")
Magic Wand (shortcut key S)
Flood Mode
Move tools
Move Selected Pixels (shortcut key M)
Move Selection (shortcut key M)
View tools
Zoom (shortcut key Z)
Pan (shortcut key H)
Fill tools
Paint Bucket (shortcut key F)
Fill
Antialiasing
Blending
Gradient (shortcut key G)
Drawing tools
Paintbrush (shortcut key B)
Eraser (shortcut key E)
Pencil (shortcut key P)
Photo tools
Color Picker (shortcut key K)
Clone Stamp (shortcut key L)
Recolor (shortcut key R)
Text and Shape tools
Text (shortcut key T)
Line/Curve (shortcut key O)
Geometric shapes
Rectangle (shortcut key O)
Rounded Rectangle (shortcut key O)
Ellipse (shortcut key O)
Freeform Shape (shortcut key O)
The Colors window
Retouching a photo
Summary
4. Image Resizing and Editing
Rotating an image
Cropping an image
Resizing an image
Changing the image size
Resizing a canvas
Anchor points
Selecting an area
Selecting with the Magic Wand tool
Moving, cutting, or changing the selected areas
Selecting with the Lasso tool
Summary
5. Adjustments
Auto-Level (Ctrl + Shift + L)
Now you try
Black and White (Ctrl + Shift + G)
Now you try
Brightness/Contrast (Ctrl + Shift + C)
Curves (Ctrl + Shift + M)
The Curves interface
Multichannel adjustments
Hue/Saturation (Ctrl + Shift + U)
Invert Colors (Ctrl + Shift + I)
Levels (Ctrl + L)
Posterize (Ctrl + Shift + P)
Sepia (Ctrl + Shift + E)
Summary
6. Working with Effects
Artistic effects
Ink Sketch
Oil Painting
Pencil Sketch
Blurs effects
Fragment
Gaussian Blur
Motion Blur
Radial Blur
Surface Blur
Unfocus
Zoom Blur
Distort effects
Bulge
Dents
Frosted Glass
Pixelate
Polar Inversion
Tile Reflection
Twist
Noise
Add Noise
Photo effects
Glow
Red Eye Removal
Sharpen
Soften Portrait
Render effects
Clouds
Julia Fractal
Mandelbrot Fractal
Stylize effects
Edge Detect
Emboss
Outline
Relief
Summary
7. Working with Layers
How layers work
Adding a new layer
Merging layers
Adjusting a layer
Moving layers
Summary
8. Supercharging Paint.NET
Plugins in Paint.NET
Getting plugins
Helping yourself if you get stuck
Help
Forum
Tutorials
The top five Paint.NET plugins
Pyrochild plugins
MadJik' all plugins
BoltBait's plugin pack
The Photoshop PSD file plugin
The dpy's pack
How you can improve Paint.NET
Summary
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