Billy Pilgrim

Just want to say thank you. This is my first look at your videos but I'm just delighted. Well done! EXCEPT I CAN'T GET IT TO WORK! I've followed the steps exactly, using blue, setting the Glow to 1 and 100, and CTRL+F'ing over and over, and nothing. I've tried it with and without first selecting the text with a dotted box (normal select tool) - doesn't make any difference. Run CRTL+F like ten times, and just nothing. Grrr. Please help

Do I really have to subscribe to WinZip to download and use this effects package? What happened to a simple downloadable file? I just want to skew a photo of a poster wth a reflective surface that made it impossible to photograph straight on without reflections. And even straight on, there's distortion from the camera lens. Paint.Net should have tools readly available to correct this kind of distortion. I've already spent like 10 minutes going through WinZip and haven't even gotten to what I wanted to download yet. I'm not subscribing to Win Zip and letting it take over my computer.

I been very busy with other things, and haven't used Paint.net to compose a picture of my own for at least a year, and when I tried to create an image with just simple background and a lot of weird little cartoony filled shapes, I couldn't find the tool I used to use all the time. It was some kind of Shapes tool, right on the Tools dropdown. You just selected the tool, clicked on the canvas, drew a line, clicked again, drew another line, clicked again, and repeated that as long as you wanted, geting an outline of whatever shape you wanted, until you doubled-clicked at the end, which would close the loop. And you could then stretch any point in the shape as you liked, fine-tuning it. What happened to this? Please don't just say it was discontinued. lt was one of my favorite tools and there's nothing like it left. The Shapes icon at the bottom won't even let you change the shape of a triangle or slant it, or anything but resize it. I love Paint.net. the only thing out of Microsoft, it seems, that ever escaped the corporate machine.

Thank you Bolt Bait. Please note that both the getpaint.net and the dotpdn.com site seem to be overrun with fake "Start" and "Start Download" link images that would download the Wave browser from WaveSor Software - a malicious program (check the conversation about this on Reddit - https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/mlkwuj/wave_browser_by_wavesor_software/.) There are three different "Start" link boxes that download the Wave browser on getpaint.net, and at least one "Start" link box on dotpdn.com. They're like ads, but disguised to make site users think they're downloading paint.net - "Wave browser" is mentioned only in much smaller print at the bottom. Please, get this junk off your sites! And go after the bastards legally. Hard to believe this is on your sites at all. How did it get past you? Could someone on the inside be involved? OK wait a minute. I held up on sending this message for a while while I downloaded PicPick, because I wanted to include an image of the site page (attached) so you can see exactly what I'm talking about. And this same damn Wave Browser f"Start" link popped up on the PicPick download site too! So either they've infested that too,or maybe it's just my computer that's infested with it somehow. But as I said above, I'm using a brand new Lenovo, and I've only started running the computer since a bit after noon today. Of course, there's the fact that it came with Windows 11 in S mode. And the dire warnings from Microsoft that taking it out of S Mode (an irreversible process) would make Windows vulnerable to malware and glitches that they'd give me no help with. After researching for a while, I took it out of S mode anyway this morning, mostly based on a PC World article that said the warnings were just normal Microsoft corporate scare tactics to keep people enslaved to the Microsoft Store. But wham, the first thing is this stupid Wave Browser on every download site I visit? That's a damn fast infection by any malware. It seems way more likely that it's out there, on your site as well as others. Just please check it out and do whatever you can from your end. Thank you.

I've been using Paint.Net for longer than I can remember (started with XP) and love it, and donate. Just got a new Lenovo running WIndows 11, though my whole family pressed me to get an Apple, just so I could continue with Paint.net. Took the thing out of its damned S Mode, installed Chrome, and first thing after installing Chrome and ensuring I have Gmail and Google Drive, I tried to download Paint.net. But it seems impossible to do without changing my default web browser to Wave. I don't want that. All I want is Paint.net, not to mess with anything else. Please.

Filehippo says that all versions up to and including 4.0 work with XP. At least XP is the first item in the versions list below the download link. Correct?

I've been using PaintDotNet for almost as long as it's been out, most recently on an XP desktop filled with dozens of plugins. My go-to program for graphic design, incredibly easy to use, much better than Photoshop (whose developers, I'm convinced, are aliens.) Unfortunately the hard disk crashed about a month ago. I have copies of all the files in every directory, but have been unable to reinstall PaintDotNet, and surprise, the XP version can no longer be downloaded. Well, it can, from weird obscure sites, but the version I managed to download -2.5 - is really stripped down, much earlier than what I had, with the Tools icons all in the wrong places - eg Shapes is up in the top menu - see attached image - and basically unusable beyond the most simple stuff. The reason I reinstalled XP, despite its obsolesence, was precisely so I could keep using my old programs. Is there no hope? I actually like XP, and I dread the learning curve to get up to speed with later corporately-dumbed-down and intrusive versions of WIndows. If there's any way I can upgrade my 2.5 version with updates, patches, to get at least to where I used to be, please point me to it The "Updates" item in the File menu. "Check Now," returns a 404 code. What was the last version that ran with XP, if there's one later than 2.5, and where can I get it? Thanks