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Sorted - got it doing what I want to do now. Thanks for all your help everyone. Take care.

Thanks very much for taking the time to help me folks, I am a complete newcomer to image editing so need all the help I can get :-) The clear instructions and suggestions about keeping files/backups in order are received and understood. I have downloaded a copy of 'RegiStax 6' as suggested, but having had a play about I can't quite get it to do what I want yet, I'll have to do some research and have a read up on how it works. I can now line up the facial features using layers in Paint.NET as instructed, but am having a slight issue. After step 6 (above) pasting the image back in, it doesn't line up with the chequerboard background (is this the canvas?), if I then go and make a video with the image files like this I get a varying white space around the image, depending on how it has been moved to align. I can crop this checked area out of the image which gets rid of the white space in the image/video, but the way I do it seems to just reset the image back to it's original alignment again, loosing the edited lining up with the 'day 1' master image. Where am I going wrong with the final cropping? Thanks again, Take care P.S. I agree the example video wasn't very cheery, the original YouTube example video I would have preferred to post has been made 'private' so I could no longer view it, it was a bit happier though! The sad one was just the first one I came across that demonstrated the point. :-)

Hello, This is my first post so I hope I do it correctly and you don't mind me posting in your forum. During 2014 I would like to create 'photo a day' video of myself, similar to this one http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3MPyoAN4FIk. I have no plans to inflict my work on the world via YouTube and the like, it is purely for my own amusement. My question is a compositional/editing one. I understand how to take the stills and create a video from them using Windows Movie Maker, not the best software but sufficient for my purposes, unless anyone has a more suitable, free, suggestion? In the link above the young ladies eyes and nose stay at a (mostly) fixed point in the frame, I find this makes for a better video when all the stills are run together. The problem I have, is, when I take stills of myself my nose and eyes are at different positions frame to frame which makes for a rather jumpy end result. Does anyone have any tips on how to remedy this, is it done when taking the shot, or in editing afterwards? The shots are taken on a small point and shoot digital camera, as the shots will be taken at various locations etc I wont be able to have a static setup with a tripod and mark on the floor to ensure the same position each time. The method I have tried it just holding the camera out in front of me at arms length and trying to get the same height each time. Is there a way to easily and quickly edit shots in Paint.NET so that the eyes and nose are at the same position in each frame for a series of photos, I'm not too bothered about all the frames being the same size or the edges lining up etc. Apologies for, what I fear is a rather basic question, but if any of you fine folks could point me in the right directions I would be most grateful. Thanks.