Charles from VA

Take a look at AutoHotKeys at https://autohotkey.com/ - it's a very powerful keyboard scripting tool which should allow you to do both these things. It's fairly easy to learn and has great documentation and a live help forum via IRC. Good luck!

SOLVED I had foolishly assigned a macro to the Ctrl-Shift-S key combination in AutoHotKey. Boy, do I feel dumb. For some reason, the documented keyboard shortcut for 'Save As...', Ctrl-Shift-S, doesn't work for me. When I press that key combination, several items on the toolbar flash as they're accessed and the tool changes to the Text tool. Is there a way to restore the proper shortcut function? I have the latest update. I'm wondering if it's in one of the add-ons? I'm including diagnostics in case that's helpful. Thanks for any assistance anyone can provide. Application paint.net 4.0.13 (Final 4.13.6191.1824) Build Date Tuesday, December 13, 2016 Hardware accelerated rendering (GPU) True Animations True DPI 96.00 (1.00x scale) Language en-US OS Windows 8.1 (6.3.9600.0) .NET Runtime 4.0.30319.42000 Physical Memory 8,084 MB CPU Intel(R) Core(TM) i3-3130M CPU @ 2.60GHz Architecture x64 (64-bit) Process Mode 64-bit Speed ~2594 MHz Cores / Threads 2 / 4 Features DEP, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, SSSE3, SSE4_1, SSE4_2, XSAVE Video Card Intel(R) HD Graphics 4000 Dedicated Video RAM 32 MB Dedicated System RAM 0 MB Shared System RAM 1,760 MB Vendor ID 0x8086 Device ID 0x0166 Subsystem ID 0x1971103C Revision 9 LUID 0x000092D5 Flags None Outputs 1 Video Card Microsoft Basic Render Driver Dedicated Video RAM 0 MB Dedicated System RAM 0 MB Shared System RAM 256 MB Vendor ID 0x1414 Device ID 0x008C Subsystem ID 0x00000000 Revision 0 LUID 0x00009468 Flags Software Outputs 0

I've created an image with two layers. The bottom layer contains a solid background color; the top layer contains a block of text on a transparent background. The value for the background color is 9BFFA8, the text is FF0000: When I make both layers visible, the text color changes: I've tried any number of fixes, all to no avail. I finally deleted the text layer and re-created it, and now it works: I'm baffled as to what I did wrong the first time. Any clues? Thanks!