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Voila - smoked fries http://www.stayatstovedad.com/.a/6a00e55503a4a388340154361c1e71970c-800wi Seriously - even paint.net's burnt 3.xx leftovers are more palatable other menus!

I hear, and thanks for the well-rounded answers! As for the rest, I explained where I'm at in the past, including asked advice. It's a loaded issue. For now I remain lagging with my vulnerable thinkpads and my non-supported "dangerous" 3.xx Chevy. But taking it into perspective - nearly the whole world now is fried smoke...

Sorry if this was already asked before, and also if its too a loaded Q then no problem. As I mentioned in past, I don't see myself bothering to get a Win7 or later system for the foreseeable future. My question is - would old-version users be at a HUGE disadvantage due to non-updating? I.E. is it radically improved (rendering 3.5.11 sorta primitive by comparison?

Ego, thanks! Regarding an active selection, I don't quite recall, but its highly unlikely because by now I'm more or less "reconditioned" to be alert to the quirks which selections impose. BTW, it was not the "recolor" tool, but rather, as stated above, I was recoloring using the line-draw tool. The Recolor tool was contraindicated in this instance anyway, for the reason that the Gradient's effect caused the Text-letter to become a non-uniform color. Aside from that, I mentioned elsewhere that a well-rated "recolor" tutorial on youtube failed to work for me. (That particular scenario was a case of having used Paintbrush to change the black background surrounding an object (to yellow) leaving a sorta rough-black outline still surrounding the object. So I was trying to change the rough-black outline to yellow, using the Recolor tool, but as I said, even though I step-by-step followed the video's instructions, it did not work for me. And yes, I'd ensured the image was flattened.

Consider this rhetorical, for the record, even if its a freak glitch. If this was already mentioned, or if it was due to some unknowing error of my own, by all means delete this. But for the record: I have Win XP + SP3 + 2gb RAM. Today I was using line-draw to re-color the outline of a capital-letter (and also recolor within the letter), after having used the Gradient to "shine lite onto a pool". Anyway, the colored-rays wound up spilling over onto the adjacent outlined text. ...which is why I resorted to recoloring using line-draw. (Probably crude, I know, but besides the point. ...the point is, that it was not recoloring. I tried a few times - also checked that I was on the right layer (even flattened the layers). So I gave up and self-resolved my issue by attempting to freshly reset everything: saving it as JPG, then opening it into IrfanView then again saving via Irfan to Desktop as JPG then exiting paint.net cold-turkey then opening the Irfan-saved jpg into a freshly-opened paint.net whereupon coloring in the lines became fully functional

xod, regarding the multiple layers, I'm far from expert, so its hard for me to visualize how to achieve curves over an extended area without seeing an animation of someone connecting several Layers containing fdcomposites. Some people are talented at tinkering, and acquiring experience that way, but tinkering takes me forever. (speak of composites, I similarly wish the Windows Wizard enabled Printing 2 composites of my FD logo to achieve an 11x14 poster versus a wimpy 8x11 poster Pixey, is the upper & lower part of the Cygnet f able to be manipulated somehow into more rounded curves? Also is the Cygnet f able to be thickened? Where are Cygnet & Forte & Calibri located? I don't see them in paint.net 3.5.11 which I have (Win XP here) Are there no fonts which are thicker, and with a more curved f?? Now for a stupid question: I don't suppose there's a set of Vertically-tiled Script Fonts (just as there's the Horizontally-Tiled Script font (which connect with each other precisely. P.S. I guess I'll take further suggestions "off-the-air" so to speak (as mentioned in my O.P. which had been posted on Grand-Theory. Thanks for all the input!

Hi, xod, while yours is very pretty, is there anything closer to my own design for the fd-combo, ....except with the f made more pretty? Because I'd prefer it to match up with the rest of my logo (which is already incorporated with a picture) I should also clarify that it would be used as a LARGE POSTER so needs to be HEAVY. Unfortunately I can't seem to get Windows photo printer to set it up as 11x14 and print on two 8x11's. As of now, my -f- looks sorta like a coat hanger because I can't leverage the curves the way I want them due to having had insufficient Nodes to work with (which then caused me to resort to pencil & paper, followed by digicam & Eraser-tool. BTW, though this is not really relevant, (since its a Demo) - the demo was intended as a cute sign to hang up at a diner, or on a dining room door. Made to look as if a prankster crossed out the E and inserted ALLY instead - to poke fun at the non-punctuality of served meals. AGAIN - ONLY THE "FD" COMBO IS RELEVANT TO MY ACTUAL LOGO. the INALLY INING is not relevant.

I'm posting this here, because I'm lacking the stamina to handle a formal thread. So consider this a rhetorical question-or-comment, and if anyone here is in the mood to beautify it, so much the better.. If you can believe it, the below wimpy combo took me hours resulting in a severe migraine (usually the case when I try cranking out graphics). At worst case, if nobody can fix it, I guess I'll wind up using it in its current ughy form. To the point - I designed a logo for an idea I have. It involved connecting 2 alpha letters vertically (vs. horizontally, as in the case of alpha-script) The below fd combo is the initial letters of my actual logo. I cranked it out on pencil/paper, due to insufficient Nodes. Then I used my digi-camera, then the Paint.Net Eraser painstakingly. The remainder of the below logo is just a demo for purposes of this post. (BTW during cranking out the inally, I couldn't find a font mimicking a sloppy grafitti scrawl. As you can see, the f is quite ugly, so if anyone's an expert at fixing something like that, I'd consider it a windfall.

Even though this is a 5-year-late response, its still relevant to this thread. kartracer, answering yours: With my limited scope, there's these other tools I know of with a double life: ...the Move-Selection Tools. Left-Click - moves selections Up/Down/Right/Left, like a Castle on chess board. Right-Click - rotates selections like a merry-go-round clockwise or counter-clockwise P.S. Here's a retroactive thanks to Helen, since I was seeking info re: bezier-paint.net

oops, have you seen my above Edit? (originally I couldn't find liquify, but then googled & found it. Also gotta take a break as per above. Does it matter if I resume sometime in future, with a link referring back to this. And the new subject line could be something like: Letter C tree roots (and maybe 3rd part of series - Letter C tree leaves. Thanks a million

Uh, whats the diff. saving as PNG or JPG? I just now magic-wanded the white-area of the JPG Letter_C. Then hit delete to delete the outer white area. So does it really matter - saving as PNG or JPG? Re: the Liquify stint, I was attempting to get the hang of it, but a poor attempt! Please see screenshot. Note, too, that when I tried fooling around beyond the bottom edge (of transparent checkerboard) I obviously couldn't go beyond it. Increasing canvas size only created a white boarder surrounding checkerboard. Is that cuz I'd saved it as JPG instead of PNG? Off-topic - is it OK to take a break for now? Because I got busy with bugs on my system bringing me to turtle speed, and outdated Win-XP, and trying to figure out if I should try Linux or shop for Win-7 (and I'm limited due to eSensitivity requiring Low Ghz and matte-displays yada yada. Long story, i'm going out of my mind!

Pixey, thanks yet again! Maybe I'm catching on a bit Did not understand the part about "PNG" format. I just did CTL-SHIFT-F Here's the latest screenshot, though I've a feeling that somewhere along the way I forgot to switch the Opacity back up to 255. On 2nd thought I F4'd just now, so mine is a bit darker than the screenshot. The next step needs to be shaping the bottom of the "C" so it's more like a tree trunk ...while still being able to discern that it's the letter "C".

Uh magic wand - as in my below screenshot? I.E. Did the wand need to be inside or outside the C? At what percentage-selection? (in screenshot its 32) By the way, are patients often given choco-chip cookies? I bypassed walnuts for tree-trunk due to the "nut" factor. Update: Meantime, I'm now going to try instruction #10 above. OK, now see my 2nd attachment below ...which is outcome of instructions 1-8 (of post #10. Am I on the right or wrong track? Like a babe-in-woods didn't know what the heck I was doing! BTW, each time I experimented (above) I just Exited without Saving anything. I mean, no use saving PNGs unless I comprehend what I'm doing.

Thanks again Pixey for your helpful instructions So far I've been experimenting, but wasn't familiar with the "Aligning" part. So after a long time searching for info, I noticed that View offers a Ruler, but I didn't quite grasp how the ruler works, or for that matter why it's necessary to center align. While I've not yet reached the Gaussian part of your instructions, am I correct in assuming you meant to BLUR the sharp-outline for a more realism look? Thus far, after resizing to approx. 800, then flipping vertically, here's what I got. Is that OK so far? (see attachment, ...but I'm thinking the bottom part of the "C" ought to be less wide than its upper part, in order to make a more realistic tree trunk. Also, it may be nice for the logo to look somewhere between 3D photo-realism, and 2D painting-drawing, but that's a tall order I guess. BTW, as stated above, I'd been considering rather putting romaine leaves or herbals, rather than dryad, as more compatible with cookies. Then green-pears in shape of musical-notes descending from "romaine leaves" Any wonder I marvel at the complex designs everyone here pulls off...

Update: I just now fooled for quite awhile with Dryad, but finding that I cannot curve it into a letter C. The most I could do was "Random" which curved various parts in every which way except the letter C. So at first I was considering using the Letter-C in my below attachment and somehow filling it in (masking??) with the brownish bark of the following trunk (which would probably take me all day to figure out if at all): http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2d/Newton%27s_tree,_Botanic_Gardens,_Cambridge.JPG/580px-Newton%27s_tree,_Botanic_Gardens,_Cambridge.JPG But then I came across this choco-chip-cookie in shape of C: http://ourcraftsnthings.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/letterc51.jpg And I think for my purposes it would be preferable to have the cookie as tree trunk then romaine (or herbals) as leaves and bartlett pears (made to look like musical notes) descending from the leaves So if anyone can figure out an easy way to go about my objective, I'm game. FYI, my objective, or more accurately pipedream, is a logo called CPR (Creative Patients Revolution) wherein the C is a tree with musical-note fruits and the P is a crutch looking like a trellis with blue flowers shaped like blue-cross centered within it, and a blue-outlined cloud-puff to finish off the rounded part and the R is sorta a sliding pond, with the steps being an aqua paintbrush, and the slide/chute shaped like the right-part of the R, with an overturned paint-can causing aqua-blue "culture-medium" to rush down chute and turn into a stream wherein blue veins & red arteries (and eyes) are growing as if they're hydroponic flowers.