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Thank you all for the ideas. I will try with quadrilateral or distort this. I should have said that I like the old paper, because it reflects the WWII times, but is nice to learn about the binarization option. I will add that the oranges in the picture where caused by Irfanview lowering the file size to 255K to append it. The real one is huge and has nice grey old paper texture. Thank you again

Suggestions appreciated. I am afraid I'll have to use it the way it is.

Eraser with cursor keys worked great. Thank you again to all.

Thank you for the answers. Are there any control key sequences to lock tool movements like eraser or brush to horizontal and vertical? or best way to accomplish it?

First let me say that the after using the product for a while, I have come to realize the amount of effort that has gone into it. I am a retired software guy that started in the seventies, and has gotten its hands on plenty of languages and platforms, so I have a feeling for it. At the same time, this implies I am an oldie, with what comes with it. Thank you to Rick and all other involved on this work. Now, I am trying to fade edges for a collage and I am getting some odd results; it only has an effect on the lower edge. What am I doing wrong?

Thank you, I think it would be very nice to have UNDO/REDO on each of the layer entries, to allow going back as long as there is an independent path, and remove the entries from the history stack. I have been running into finding that I screwed up on a layer a while back, and all the work on the other layers has to be undone. I wonder if this could be something to be done on a plugin.

Is there a way to apply UNDOs specific to a layer and ignore the ones for the other layers?

Thank you for the answers. The shift did it. I don't understand why developers think that users want to deform images more often that resize preserving. I would think the default would be preserve ratio. Thanks again.

I am working on a cover for a book, with a background picture and pictures collated over in different sizes. I was doing this in MS Word, where it s relatively easy, but I have to edit some pictures and thought paint.net, would be better, with one layer per picture. I opened the background picture and resized to desired to cover size, in 300DPI. I opened to be pasted one, rather vertical, 1200DPI, way bigger, must be reduced upon pasting. I am not finding an intuitive way to paste into another layer of the first, and go and pull a corner in to reduced while preserving ratio. Obviously I must be missing something. Any tips will be appretiated.