Please note that plugins are provided by members of the forum. The paint.net team cannot provide support for them. If you require assistance with an individual plugin, visit the paint.net forum and post a question in the thread where the plugin was released.
Plugins are developed and maintained by the paint.net community and not the developer of paint.net. If you are having issues with a particular plugin, please ask on the paint.net forum in the thread where the plugin was downloaded. This location can be found by searching from within paint.net. Open the search URL with the keyboard combination Ctrl + E.
Only ever download plugins from the paint.net forum, or from links posted there by the plugin author. Never download plugins from any other source as malware, viruses and infected files can infiltrate your system.
We highly recommend you perform a virus scan on any plugin prior to installation.
Plugins come as a file with the extension of ".DLL". Some plugin authors may compress these files further in an archive format such as .ZIP or .RAR. If compressed, the plugin will need to be extracted from the archive file to it's *.DLL format before proceeding.
For Effect plugins; the plugin developer should have posted the location of the plugin so it can be found in paint.net's menu system. If the plugin cannot be found in the correct menu, check the Settings dialog under the Plugin Errors tab to see if there was a problem loading it.
For Filetype plugins; the plugin will not be found in paint.net's menus. Instead, the plugin will add the new file extension to the drop-down lists in the load and save dialogs. If the new extension cannot be found, check the Settings dialog under the Plugin Errors tab to see if there was a problem loading it.
You can specify additional directories where plugins will be loaded from. This means cloud-based solutions like OneDrive can be used to host plugins which will then be sync'd to all of your systems. For security reasons enabling this feature requires editing registry entries.
Setting up custom plugin folders, especially cloud-based folders, is advanced app configuration. This configuration is intended for advanced users, administrators, and IT Professionals as it requires administrator privilege and the creation of registry keys. For your protection, we recommend backing up the registry before modifying it.
d0d94e66b7