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How to-s for the rest of us

We all need a little inspiration now and again. Sometimes, it just helps to follow a tutorial or two to get the juices flowing. There are these here, and more available on the Paint.NET Forum.

Glass Orbs

Posted by Crazy Man Dan on 2007-03-04

Make shiny glass orbs with this centuries-old tutorial. Updates using PDN 3 features are coming, but for now, it's a straight transfer of the old tutorial, spelling errors and all.

Alpha Masking Overview

Posted by Crazy Man Dan on 2007-06-15

A brief overview of Alpha Masking and what it's good for.

Alpha Masking - Cutouts

Posted by Crazy Man Dan on 2007-06-15

Cut out people, cars, flowers, whatever! Cutting out pieces of images with layer masking results in naturally anti-aliased edges, allowing for easy compositing.

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