![]() While you get a good result if you follow my tutorial, sometimes you can tweak some settings around to see how it works out. This advice basically applies to everything you do at a computer, but I'm just repeating it to be on the safe side. Nothing sucks more than have 3 hours of mapping ruined by a power shortage or blue screen. While PDN is extremely stable (so far I haven't had it crash on me once), always make sure you have a copy of your stuff. That will save you a lot of time wondering why the heck your Blur or Render effect did nothing to the image. Just make sure you're always checking which layer is currently selected (the one that is highlighted blue in the layer selection box) before doing something. I use one layer for water bodies, one layer for the outlines, one layer for land masses, one layer for forests, one layer for mountains, one layer for text. That means that you could end up undoing a lot of stuff just to revoke a single operation on a specific layer. You only need to remember that Undo is used globally for each picture and not on a layer base. For as long as you didn't close PDN you can always hit the Undo button. You cannot ruin your map by doing something "wrong". Post 4 - Glaciers, Finalizing, Aging (optional) Post 3 - Water bodies, Forests, Mountains Post 1 - Basics, Tools of the Trade, Basic Layout, Getting Started ![]() T he default is 50%, 100% will fill in everyt hing, and zero will only fill in one color (like in MSP).Noticing a distinct lack of material for Paint.NET (from now on called "PDN") - and being dared by RPMiller - I decided to put together a short tutorial on how to create a map with PDN in a few simple steps.įirst, this is what the final map is going to look like: It can make t he paint bucket tool also fill in similar colours and not just t he exact color you click it over (as it is in MS Paint). ![]() Tolerance is s hown in a bar at t he top of t he screen (see fig. It functions here just as it does in MS Paint, with 2 exceptions: I'll cover t he selection tools w hile I cover selections.Ī h, paint bucket is suc h a nice tool. It looks like 2 circles a red one and a blue one. It looks just like the line tool in MS Paint. Just know it's the one with the two lines on it. The colours used in it are switched from MS Paint the colour you want to replace is secondary, while the colour you want to replace it with is primary. It will replace one colour with another colour and uses tolerance. The Recolour tool:This functions a bit like MS Paint's eraser. jpeg), and at 100% tolerance the entire image will be selected. Note that at the top is a tolerance bar (this works for the paint bucket tool as well) at 0% tolerance the tool will only select one color, but as you increase the tolerance, similar colors will be selected (useful if the image is a. If you hold down Shift and select an area, all area with that colour will be selected. If you select one area, you can hold down Ctrl and select another one, which will add the new selection to your previous one. It can select a contiguous area that has all one colour. As a member of the Cartographer's Guild, I have decided to make a tutorial on Paint.NET (being the member who has used it the longest (unless Phillip has been using it longer)).
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