Effects
This menu contains many commands that can be used for applying special effects to your image.
Plugins
Paint.NET supports adding additional effects by way of plugins, which you can download and install. More information can be found at the plugins section of the forum.
Examples
The following base image will be used to show what each effect (except for Red Eye Removal) is capable of:
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Repeat [effect name]
If you have run an effect before, you may use this command to run it again with the same settings.
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Blurs submenu
The Blurs submenu provides several effects for various types of blurring:
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Gaussian Blur
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Median
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Motion Blur
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Radial Blur
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Unfocus
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Zoom Blur
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Distort submenu
The Distort submenu provides several effects for various types of distortion:
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Bulge
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Polar Inversion
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Tile Reflection
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Twist
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Add Noise
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Clouds
The Clouds effect can work in two ways. The first is to completely replace what is on the active layer with a cloud rendering, when the Blend Mode is set to Normal:
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Edge Detect
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Emboss
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Frosted Glass
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Glow
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Oil Painting
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Outline
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Pixelate
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Red Eye Removal
This can be used to correct for red eye in digital photographs. This removal operation works best when you use a selection tool to limit the effect to just the subject's eyes, as shown in the sequence of images below.
1. Before
2. Eyes selected
3. After
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Relief
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Sharpen
This produces something similar to this:
However if you change the Blend Mode selection on this dialog to, for example, Difference, then the clouds will be blended into the image that is already on the layer:
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