Author Topic: Two images of Windows (OS) that I made in Paint.NET  (Read 2419 times)

My first attempt on the Windows 7 pearl


Bootscreen of Windows NT 4.0


Compared to original

« Last Edit: November 19, 2010, 10:44:42 PM by Tyler66 »


Why is the yellow part a lime green?

Gradient is bad and it needs AA but it's otherwise good.

It's good for a first.
Gradient is bad and it needs AA but it's otherwise good.
I tried my hand at it, results follow


Grunge-y ubuntu logo.

Because I can. :cookieMonster:

Grunge-y ubuntu logo.
-snip-
Because I can. :cookieMonster:
looks like a circular license plate with the Ubuntu logo on it

Grunge-y ubuntu logo.
-snap-
Because I can. :cookieMonster:
looks like you just discovered the emboss tool

Paint.net has AA on by default. Why the hell did you turn it off?

Paint.net has AA on by default. Why the hell did you turn it off?
Actually, with things like the Brush tool and the Freeform Shape tool, the AA isn't very good, i find it best to use the Line tool if i'm going to use Paint.NET

looks like you just discovered the emboss tool

*Layer styles editor in photoshop.


I know a lot of people swear by paint.net but I think you should try out inkscape, it's probably a better tool for what you're trying to do. Here's a windows logo I made in inkscape: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/11513588/vista%20logo.svg

Firefox, chrome, safari, etc will probably display it as an image. Internet explorer still doesn't have svg support, although it's been partially implemented in IE9 so you'll see nothing or get some kind of error. Just save it to your desktop and open it in inkscape. Try clicking stuff and dragging it around and note the difference between a vector editor and a raster editor like paint.net. If you're interested in learning more, inkscape has a really good basic tutorial here.


I know a lot of people swear by paint.net but I think you should try out inkscape, it's probably a better tool for what you're trying to do. Here's a windows logo I made in inkscape: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/11513588/vista%20logo.svg

Firefox, chrome, safari, etc will probably display it as an image. Internet explorer still doesn't have svg support, although it's been partially implemented in IE9 so you'll see nothing or get some kind of error. Just save it to your desktop and open it in inkscape. Try clicking stuff and dragging it around and note the difference between a vector editor and a raster editor like paint.net. If you're interested in learning more, inkscape has a really good basic tutorial here.
Does that use vector graphics?