The Open With approach seems to work for what it does, but lacks what I consider to be ideal proximity. I have scanned the "Change default program editor" with Avira and "Microsoft Security Essential", then I scanned it online with and and found nothing, but this means only that perhaps it doesn't contain a known virus or malware. So either I run them in a virtual machine or in a sand box but in this case I can't because they have to access the registry. Edited Januby delpartĪnd at the end I have also rebooted the computer but the gif files are still edited with ms paint.Ībout the " Change default program editor" application, I normally don't trust those type of software. Simple and easy without having to play registry editing navigation nightmares. tested safe by me and various scanning programs (and I'm not associated with this freeware/donation-ware in any way mind you): Change default program editor **EDIT Heh, one of the applications in that thread actually works pretty quickly and easily. Everything else is just what you want to see when you right click on the first layer. The Open with above is a guarenteed to work solution. Oddly enough on Technet there is a really long thread discussing methods of making these modifications that will give you all the specific edits to try: Technet Social discussion on chaning. Getting the Open with subcontext menu to show PDN is really simple, but requires two layers to navigate to when right cliicking and may require using Shift at times: Modify HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.gif\OpenWithProgids and add the value Paint.NET.1 Re-asssociating the default edit command is a real quagmire with Vista and Windows 7 especially. If your needs are simple and this isn't being rolled out to thousands of client machines, you may want to try that first. gif images when you click edit? Edited Januby pdnnoobĪdding "EDIT with (application name)" is a simple method but it will be on any file type. gifĮDIT: I just finished reading the entire thread (shoulda done that earlier). Once you are done with the image, save it (as the. agif files with for you after you do it once. To open an animated gif file after you install the plugin, just rename the extension to. It's a filetype plugin, so make sure you put it in the filetype folder rather than the effects folder. Here's an animated gif image plugin for you. Right click the file and look for the "Open with" section and scroll down to "choose default program" Normally for gifs, the default programs be your default browser You do it the same way as any other file format. The other part to your question, how to set default program status. agif and thats it.Unless your using a plugin im not aware of, Paintnet cant display or create animated gifs so sortof pointless using to edit them otherwise. If rotating by 30 degree intervals, you should have 11 layers.) Save as a. If by intervals of 20, you should have 17 layers plus one layer that has been rotated by 10 degrees. Repeat the process of duplicating and rotating until you rotated the layer to 360 degrees (If rotating by 10 degree intervals, you should have 35 layers. Go to Rotate/Zoom (Ctrl+Shift+Z) and rotate it 10-30 degrees. Then use a transparency gradient to fade it out on one side. agif file when you're done.Īnother alternative: Duplicate the layer of the button, go to Adjustments > Brightness and Contrast (Ctrl+Shift+C) and set it to make it darker. Fade out the gradient on the edges to your liking. Then switch to Transparency Gradient mode ( :AlphaChannel: ). Set your primary color to white and your secondary to any color with an Alpha value of 0. On a new layer (Ctrl+Shift+N), go to the gradient tool ( ) and put it in linear gradient mode ( :LinearGradient: ). You should now have an option to save as a. Place it under C:// > Program Files > Paint.Net > Effects (I believe that is the correct filepath). Download Simon Brown's plugin pack here:
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