Mambo Dave

At the price I just paid for it, I gladly paid for it. Thank you, PAINT.net. Now comes the problematic part. I'm at work, and it isn't my laptop - it's the company's. I use Paint.net for personal picture editing, and occasionally to crop a work photo. I already have Paint.net installed, so no issue I guess, but trying to use MSFT to pay for, and download, the app (officially) had MSFT asking all kinds of questions that they certainly didn't need. My address? Really? But the true roadblock was me using a side gmail account, and MSFT wanting to - DEMANDING to without giving me an option of 'NO' - using that email across all my devices. This isn't even my device, and I certainly don't want that email in any way on, or attached to, this work laptop. So I guess I paid for it, but will never install the official 'paid for' download. This just doesn't sit well with me. And I will certainly not be happy at if some time in the future I might be blocked from using the free version with no good way of installing the version I paid for. Thank you.

it is. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Image_Acquisition Dang, you're right. Found them in a list that was opened by clicking on the USB 'video device' listed on my files and folders. Was able to delete them from there. Thanks guys.

Well, perhaps - except the 'take picture' function is Paint.NET's, and the only software supporting the webcam is WinXP noticing a USB webcam was plugged in. Unles I'm mistaken, your postulation would only make sense if Paint.Net's 'Capture' button and function (from the live-feed the webcam is giving it) is really just activating an WinXP 'Capture' function... but I'm leaning on the side that Paint.net isn't just a mask over WinXP functions.

Well, I refuse to install the garbage program that came with the rather good webcam, so... There must be a way. I agree - find the file that is saving them, but since the snapshots aren't technically 'saved' by me, I have no clue what compression system they are being filed under, by what name, and ... heck, if I only knew 'where' that file that Paint.net saves 'em to, that would be a start. But it either isn't in the main install of the paint.net folder (or I'm blind and didn't see them), or they are all encoded into one file that i don't understand.

I have a question I can't seem to google an answer about. I use Paint.net's Acquire feature to pull quick images (mostly of my cat, but sometimes of the breads that I bake) directly off of my webcam (my real camera broke). But now, every time I open the Acquire > Scanner or Camera > Webcam function the entire list of pictures I have taken - saved or not - still appears. There is no readily viewable way to clear the list, and I searched the Paint.net installment under "Program Files" (WinXP), but didn't see any place that would be saving the 30 or so images that I have on this list. It's a pain having to search through them all. (A secondary question would be: "If I take, say, five pictures with my MS webcam via the Paint.net function, how to I retrieve each photo without having to re-open the whole "Acquire > From Scanner and Camera > OK > Get Picture > choose from the narrow scroll list of captured pictures" click-fest?) Best, and Thank You, Dave