Michael Lowden

Just curious if it's only me, but the mouse icon is crazy small in HighDPI. I have a "large inverted" mouse pointer and it's sweet until I hover into PDN. Where it drops to what feels like 10 pixels and washed out (especially over the gray background). Hasn't stopped me from buying the App in the Windows store though :). Love this tool, daily.

I have an issue when merging from a partially transparent (~30%) layer down to a 100% layer. The transparency gets dropped and seems to inherent the 100% of the lower layer. Am I using it wrong?

Simply one of the best applications on the market today, and FREE (?) amazing. So i was building a collage for a printed banner (3x6 feet) and thought "Hey, let's max this mother out". I set my canvas to 6x3 at 300dpi. Everything worked beautifully until I hit about 30 layers (of small-ish clips, each one ~40MB PNGs). My PDN file was 450MBs, and loaded up clipped out at ~27GBs RAM (I have 32GBs, i7 2.9GHz, +4GB Quadro M2000M, it's a strong laptop). When I added the ~31st layer it freaked out and crashed. Repeated reboots / attempted downsampling to 150dpi, "flatten image", nadda. Everything spiked through the ceiling on the RAM and crashed the app. I ended up resolving by flatten each layer one-by-one, and watched my RAM drop about 1GB per layer, until I got it down to just one flat layer (slowly). I was then able to add the remaining 10 layers, scale them, and export to a format supported by the website (max 50MegaPixel). Though frustrating ... the tool produced an amazing result and over a decade of pleasure using it. I love you Paint.NET. Thanks.