MsHypothetical

Oh, it's not my drawing, it's my friend's. But I'll tell her you said so! Thanks for your advice, I think I've fixed it now. Ironically it turns out I'd made a truly stupid mistake that was messing up my entire perception of the picture - I was thinking of the bottom of the layer stack as the top - so that probably produced some communication issues. Probably see you when I find a new problem...

If I set the layers to normal then I won't be able to see the lines in order to fill the colour in. I'm pretty sure it's an opacity issue because it's also doing this with colours other than grey. All of the colours are up to 255 opacity but I don't see a percentage bar anywhere. Are you seriously telling me Paint.Net needs plugins just to let it draw pale lines on dark colours?

I had a ook at the Paint.Net documentation, it doesn't seem to have what I'm looking for. You see where there are pale grey chains on his belt and the jeans are blue? The grey is on the top layer and the blue is on the layer below, but every time I try and colour behind the chains, it darkens them instead of leaving them grey. Both layers are set to multiply so that I can see to colour, and I think the problem is that Paint.Net is reading anything that's not absolutely black as translucent, so I guess my question is, how can I get opaque, strong lines and still be able to see the layers below?

Hi, just started learning to use digital art, I got as far as layers and lightening, now the thing that's frustrating me is that I've lightened the lines on part of my picture to pale grey and I'd like to colour the background dark blue - but Paint.Net seems to be treating the grey as transparent. When I colour the blue layer underneath I'd like the grey to stand out, but it only darkens it. I have the opacity for both colours turned up all the way - what do?