GraphiX2004

hello Rick, sorry it sounds that way. i know it's a free program and you get what you pay for as they say, i was only trying this out because my older photoshop when opening any png images all had a black background. so wanted something light i could open a png image with that showed default on a whitebackground so i could re-save it. but then i tried doing what i do in photoshop, make a new image color the background white, then just drag the layer into the new image. photoshop drags the transparent layer or any layer content into the new image, also you can have multiple layers with content and choose copy merged. when pasted into the new image all the layers paste over, really glad to see you've included this in v4.0 beta, because for the life of me i couldn't do with your program something as simple as highlight the design area copy and paste all content layers into 1 new image. or even drag and drop a layer from 1 image to the new image, retaining the white backgound.

So there's no way to actually copy merged all layers into the new image retaining all aspects of each layer? trasparency masks, and layer effects on images, this means you'd have to select each and every layer manually to copy?

I'm a die hard adobe user, never used anything else to do graphics work in for over 20 years.. but i got curious about paint.net since someone spoken about this program in various threads. i don't get it and was hoping someone who used it could help. Say i download an image of the net of a dog with a .png transparent background. open in paint it's showing the transparency which is great, now say i make another image (not a layer) of 400px, by 400px, and fill it white, I'm so used to in photoshop just dragging transparency masks/layers from one image directly into a new image, I've tried everything in paint.net even tried making a new layer, filling that white, bringing the transparency image to the front. so the white layer is behind the transparency one, then copy/cut to the new image with a filled in "white" background. but all that copies across is the transparency layer, unlike Photoshop there's no copy merged, move merged option. so how do you get to cut/move a bunch of layers as 1 into a new image either by drag and drop, or cut and paste??? i can't work this out.