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Do you have the Hardness set to a low value? Compare the difference in behaviour of the tool with Hardness 0% and 100%. What value of Spacing do you have set?

Please see the Frequently Asked Questions here https://forums.getpaint.net/topic/399-frequently-asked-questions-faq/, specifically the one headed: Can I change the default save format to JPG? Also see numerous other posts in the forum asking the same question.

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Yes, of course. And good advice to sharpen after resizing smaller. But the OP asserts "I never had any problems with Paint.net ... till the last update install". They are probably confused about this - but nevertheless it would be good to help them out if they would provide a cropped before and after image for comparison.

Just crop the original and resized to upload part of the images as @Ego Eram Reputo requested. Then we can compare the original an blurry resized images to help you. Paint.NET is not a "Microsoft Photo Editor", and neither is it from 1997; its initial release was in 2004 and it has evolved hugely since then. In what way do you find Paint.NET "a pain to install"? It's simply a case of downloading and running the installer. And updates are handled automatically. Are you perhaps confusing Paint.NET with some other application?

Are you saying that you have tried all the Resampling settings, including Best Quality? You've told us the original image size but you haven't said what size you are resizing it to.

That doesn't achieve what @Stargoop wants. They want to keep the main subject of the image and make just the background transparent, which is why they use the Magic Wand to select the subject and then invert the selection.

All good @Stargoop but your method is more complicated than it needs to be. Try this: 1. Open your image in Paint.NET 2. Use the Magic Wand (or any of the selection tools you wish) to select the wanted image area 3. Edit | Invert Selection (or just press Ctrl+I) 4. Edit | Erase Selection (or just press the Delete key) That's it! If you haven't done so already, I'd recommend working your way through the excellent Paint.NET Documentation here https://www.getpaint.net/doc/latest/index.html and trying things out as you go to really understand the tools. The documentation can also be accessed by clicking the icon, top right) or by pressing the F1 key.

I use IrfanView as a fast light-weight image gallery viewer, either by: a) opening one image in IrfanView and then left/right arrowing through the folder or b) opening the folder in the IrfanView Thumbnail viewer and stepping through the images there. And then, if I want to edit an image, I press Shift+1 to quickly invoke Paint.NET as an external editor. It's a combination of apps that works well for me, so give it a try. You define the external editor(s) in the Miscellaneous page of Options | Settings.

Although I wouldn't object to these changes being made, none of these things would make any difference to my use of Paint.NET. I don't spend time just admiring the UI; I use the application. I'm grateful for the continually evolving functionality of Paint.NET, coupled with the simplicity of its interface and the provision of keyboard shortcuts to control most of its features, which speeds up interaction with the app hugely. UI 'modernization' in the manner proposed would not add anything to my use of Paint.NET.

Or to avoid any change to your original image: 1. Ctrl+Shift+C 2. Ctrl+Alt+V 3. Ctrl+S 4. Ctrl+W which does: 1. Copy Merged 2. Paste into New Image 3. Save 4. Close

@frer8833, you said above "nothing happens" and asked: "Is N key some secret key, because i don't see this key officially used like this, where can i find all the inofficial ways of using the keys?" As @Rick Brewster said: "Tap the Alt key to enable the underlines which show the keyboard accelerator keys. This is standard Windows behavior." Take a look at the dialogs below: On the left is the Unsaved Changes dialog that you see when clicking Close or pressing CTRL+W. On the right, the accelerator keys S and N are shown with underlines as a result of pressing ALT (or having Underline Access Keys set) To close the image and save, press CTRL+W then S To close the image and don't save, press CTRL+W then N The same approach applies for menus. See the underlined letters on the right after pressing ALT: So, for example, to flip an image horizontally, press ALT I H Your original question was about reducing mouse movement. If you get into the habit of using CTRL and ALT accelerator keys, then for many operations you don't need to move the mouse at all editing becomes much faster. The same is true when using other Windows applications. FYI, there is a comprehensive list of keyboard commands in the excellent Paint.NET documentation https://www.getpaint.net/doc/latest/KeyboardMouseCommands.html

I use Hugin panorama photo stitcher for this type of task https://hugin.sourceforge.io/ There's a tutorial on stitching flat scanned images here https://hugin.sourceforge.io/tutorials/index.shtml There's a bit of a learning curve with Hugin, but IMO it's worth it.

See the note in red under the Download button warning you about this:

And @frer8833 if you want the underlined keyboard accelerator keys to always be visible, then turn on this Accessibility setting:

It would be great to have this 'paste on side' capability in Paint.NET, which would expand the canvas and paste the image on the chosen side. I have to do this frequently (pasting screenshots of dialogs next to each other) and is the only reason that I switch to Irfanview, which has this capability, as shown below.

You/we can do nothing. Please re-read the first 4 paragraphs of Rick's Popular Feature Requests post.

> What do you think is happening? I think what's happening is that you have not discovered the excellent Paint.NET documentation. Click the icon, and select Documentation (or just press F1). Then read about 'Tools | Selection Tools' and 'Tools | Move Tools' Then experiment. If anything isn't clear, ask here again.

I note your last sentence but looking at the nature of your drawing, I would honestly advise taking a bit of time to investigate a vector drawing package, such as Inkscape. There will be a learning curve, of course, but the rewards are high as you will be able to do everything shown in your drawing, and so much more. There are lots of tutorials available. With a vector package it's easy to layer the different shapes, change their positions, sizes, line thicknesses, fill colours, etc. You can easily duplicate shapes, or even collections of shapes, and can re-use then from one drawing to another. If you wish to blend the capabilities of vector and raster, you can export a vector drawing from Inkscape as a PNG, scaled to whatever resolution you want (and preserving the sharpness of the edges of lines), and finish by raster editing in Paint.NET. IMO, it's worth the effort to learn to use the best tool (or a combination of tools) for the job.

I don't have a suggestion, but I'm interested to know what your use case is for logarithmic distortion. Could you post an example image that you wish to distort please?

Very nice tip @ardneh The OP might usefully recolour the grass layer first to make it less green to add to the parched effect.

Probably... 1. Pressing Alt then releasing it with no intervening action focuses the menu bar. 2. Pressing Alt and a menu shortcut key (F/E/I/L/A/c) focuses the menubar and opens the corresponding menu. 3. With a selection already made and a selection tool active, then doing this (in this order): pressing and holding Alt pressing and holding down the left mouse button dragging the mouse releasing the left mouse button releasing Alt ...subtracts from the selection and does not focus the menu bar.

@Pixey > Go to File>Acquire>From Scanner or Camera From the error message, n10004, @Manda69 appears to be asking about sending an image to a Brother ScanNCut machine. Not trying to acquire an image.

Follow @Pixey's suggestion and then Effects | Blurs | Gaussian Blur in the new blue area to smooth out the slight horizontal streakiness that you get on the right hand side.

Turn on Show location of pointer