Many of my plugins utilize tabs for making the UI much smaller than before. Outline Selection and Outline Object got some new features and the outlines look MUCH better than previous versions.īevel now has a shadow angle free choice and a hard edge option.Ĭalendar Creator now has holiday highlighting. *Please post a vote for which of my 'classic' effects you'd like to see GPU accelerated next. This pack also includes 57 shapes and 2 palettes. I will be making a new Drop Shadow plugin eventually. The following effects are classic flavor*Īdjustment > Temperature / Tint (now built-in) Text Formations > Outlined / Gradient Text.Object > Switch Alpha to Gray (This is Create Alpha Mask).The following classic effect now has Tabs in the UI The following effects have been GPU accelerated I have rewritten more than 25 of my plugins so that they will now be GPU accelerated! While I was in there, I also added cool new features. More tutorials on how to implement these things in your own plugins will be written over the coming months. IndirectUI now has a comment control which does nothing except allow you to place text between controls.ĭrop-Down IndirectUI controls can now place text in front of the drop-down list. Plugins can write OUTSIDE of the current selection (although you can still only write to the selected layer).

Plugins have access to layer names, the current layer, and document/layer metadata. Plugins can read a fully merged image of your document (all layers merged together). Plugins can now read other layers within your document (although you can still only write to the selected layer). Plugin authors can hide the dividing line between controls when using IndirectUI. You can have controls outside of tab sets. Here is a short list of things Brewster has enabled in Paint.NET v5.0:Įffects can have tabs in the UI.

Free instals Paint.NET 5.0.9