I have scoured dozens of web sites and forums online to bring you a compilation of all Paint.NET Plug-in effects I have found from the various forums and sites. All of these were found offered for free, and I am basically giving my fellow Paint.NET artists access to the same plug-ins so they don’t have to spend hours trying to find them on their own.
I found plug-ins to provide shadow effects, curve text, render all sorts of patterns. These plug-ins make Paint.NET much more efficient and useful at doing graphic art work, but still are shy of being as full featured as Adobe Photoshop, still for a free paint program based completely on .NET framework you will be surprised at just how powerful this paint program is.
To install these plug-ins, make sure you first download and install Paint.NET
then open the “Effects” folder where you Paint.NET installation directory is.
Unzip all of the .DLL files directly into your Paint.NET Effects folder and restart your program, and you will see all of the new options in your drop downs.
Enjoy, and let me know if you find any that I haven’t found yet, you can click here to download the Paint.NET Plug-ins
Here is just a screen shot of some of the plug-ins in the Render Dropdown:
-Dragon Blogger
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September 19th, 2009 at 2:10 pm
That’s a nice bunch of plugins. Does it work without any errors?
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September 19th, 2009 at 2:35 pm
They all work without any problems or errors, I have installed on 2 Windows XP machines and 2 VISTA machines.
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November 10th, 2009 at 8:48 pm
I tried putting all of these on and it wouldn’t go. Is there any way to get it to work?
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November 10th, 2009 at 9:16 pm
I have done these same install on Windows XP, Vista and Windows 7 64 bit without any issue? Can you describe your problem?
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February 28th, 2010 at 3:33 am
[...] Lots of Paint.NET Plug-ins on Dragon Blogger – great plugin compilation for nice additional effects [...]
July 12th, 2010 at 11:22 am
Have downloadedd plugins and installed all the .dlls in the paint.net effects folder but when I start the program they don’t show up.
I am currently running running Win7 Ultimate 64-bit
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July 12th, 2010 at 12:15 pm
Check under the subfolders of effects like the Photo Effects, Render and Selection sub menus. The plugins don’t add directly into the main “Effects drop down” but get added to several sub categories.
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August 1st, 2010 at 12:35 am
I can’t find the curved text effect, do you know where it’s at?
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August 1st, 2010 at 9:32 am
I usually use this method: http://forums.getpaint.net/index.php?/topic/15571-curved-text/ to manually curve / rotate text, or the tubular effect on the selected text as an image.
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August 3rd, 2010 at 11:52 pm
Where do you find the curve text effect and how do you use it? I downloaded the plug ins and think I put in the right place. Thanks for the info and download but I need to know how to use it!
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August 4th, 2010 at 6:54 am
I can’t find it either. I asked earlier he pointed me to the manual method( tilt on character at a time ) , which I hoped the addon would allow me to avoid having to do. Text curve effects generally let you set a pivot point around with the text bends. At least that is how photoshop does it.
I haven’t tried the tubular effect.
I guess I will have to get photoshop.
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August 4th, 2010 at 6:58 am
I will continue to try and find a plugin that will work, specifically one for curved text effects. If I find one I will link to it.
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August 4th, 2010 at 6:59 am
Did you guys see this link to do curved text effects? http://forums.getpaint.net/index.php?/topic/14014-3d-advanced-curved-text/ Let me know if this helps.
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August 6th, 2010 at 8:56 pm
That’s actually where I started at when I was searching, but its 3d only. my original design was 2d with text curved like the arch in an archway, because the logo’s main part is inside of a circle. The text needs to either be inside or outside the cirlce, and it looks a lot better if follows the circle’s curve.
August 7th, 2010 at 9:26 am
When I need to curve 2D text I use the tubular effect to make the text curve, it doesn’t convert it to 3D, but have to have text on separate layer and takes some adjusting.
August 4th, 2010 at 1:44 pm
Ah that may just work. Thanks again
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