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How To Add PDN Layers HERE. I do it the first way every time. PDN/PSP Plugins that I use a lot are located HERE.

Friday, February 3, 2012

HOW TO: General PDN Plugin Tutorial

Many users say that they prefer Corel PSP because they use a wide variety of plugins, both standard in the program or externally added. But so can Paint.Net users as well!
In this tutorial, I will show you how to find plugins through your program, how to install them, and how these few plugins can open a whole new world for Paint.Net users!
To find PDN plugins, open your program, find the image below in the upper right-hand corner of your screen, click the question mark and then follow the links to the forums. There, you will find many listings for many different plugins to do a wide variety of fun things in your program: like drop shadow, alpha mask, or create text in a circle.
First, in order to use plugins, you'll need to download ONE Paint.Net plugin HERE. Once you unzip this, place it in the Effects folder of your PDN program (see my example below). 
These TWO little plugins just opened your world! With them, you can use ALL brands of .8bF plugins, such as Eye Candy, Flaming Pear and many of the others you see listed HERE.
With each program that you add, make sure you place them ALL under your Effects folder. these style of plugins create "effects" so they will not go to any other folder in your program because they will not work when added to other folders.
Two MAJOR File-type plugins that are a MUST for all PDN users: the Paint Shop Pro plugin HERE and the PhotoShop plugin HERE. These two plugins allow you to change the default settings on your program so that you can open and save in two different formats (unlike before).
Because these are FILE types, please place them in the File Type folder of your program. Placing them in any other folder will not enable them to function within your program.
The Photoshop plugin will open everything BUT *psp extensions so please remember that. If you may get the following message below, there is nothing you can do except find another template or element/kit to use.
The Paint Shop Pro plugin was reversed when it comes to templates. They will NOT open ANY templates in the *psp format that I have been able to find. I tried six different *psp templates and none of them worked.

However, they will save your design in *psp, if directed, and these I have found will open in Paint.Net. If it's created by the program, it opens in the program.

And, if a kit that is downloaded is saved in *psp, the elements can be opened.
When Photoshop or Corel PSP update their programs, sometimes you can find updated versions of both plugins above. Until that time, Adobe and Corel trademark their secrets so it is hard for code creators to get newer versions to build on their existing plugins. This is why some elements, templates or other sundries will not work with either plugin (See Null54's statement HERE).

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