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Jan 23
2007

Out of Bounds with Paint.NET

In my ongoing quest to mimic Photoshop tutorials in Paint.NET, I decided to take another run at one. This time it was for creating an "out-of-bounds" picture in Photoshop where something seems to step outside of a picture.

Here's what I was able to accomplish with Paint.NET:

Guy Falling 

Jan 20
2007

EventScripts Software “Box”

Over on digg recently I also saw a tutorial for creating a fake software box using Photoshop. I don't use Photoshop, but I do use Paint.NET. So I decided to try the same thing using that tool, which is one of my favorite free tools.

There are a few features different from Photoshop, so it wasn't 100% trivial to do, but I did manage to emulate it pretty well. I may write a similar tutorial for Paint.NET users to follow. Take a look: