Crazy Man Dan

^ Gotta admit, I was hoping that link would be about zombie smilies...

The "Choose Defaults" dialog allows you to set your default startup tool, as well as the default settings for the tools that have them. You can access this dialog by clicking the "Tool" button on the far left of the toolbar. It is the first option. You can read more about these settings on this page of the Paint.NET online Documentation.

That character is a very widespread meme. Plenty of PNGs of that image without the white background already exist, such as this one here. If you're having trouble removing the white background yourself, you could just grab one that already has the white background removed.

We are here to help, but we are not at your beck and call. Indignation after a mere 11 minutes with no response is ridiculous and disrespectful. The answer welshblue gave should be plenty to answer your question. For a visualization of what is going on with transparency, you can read through the help docs regarding Working with Layers. Thread Closed

Oh man, this takes me back - back to before Paint.NET even had a gradient tool. What you could try for a quadrant gradient as you describe is: Create a new canvas at 2px by 2px Use the Pencil tool to mark a single pixel of your desired colors in each quadrant - for this example: white top-left, blue top-right, red bottom-left, and green bottom-right Open the Image > Resize dialog and Set the Resampling to "Bicubic" Scale your image up to your desired final dimensions The Bicubic resampling method will blend the colors together in a gradated fashion. If I'm understanding you correctly, this should produce an effect similar to what you're looking for.

Regarding Administrator privileges, that will happen when trying to navigate to the Fonts folder from the browse dialog. I would suggest accessing the folder from Windows Explorer, copying the OTF in question, pasting it on your Desktop or somewhere else easily accessible, and uploading that copy. Regarding the missing glyphs, I'm afraid I cannot help you there. I do not have that particular font, so I cannot toubleshoot. I would try converting a copy, installing that one, and seeing if the behavior continues.

In general, yes, as TTF files will work straight away. A quick Google search turned up this converter: http://www.freefontconverter.com/ I gave it a test with one of the OpenType fonts I had installed, replaced the OTF with the TTF version it gave me, and Paint.NET picked it up. So, if there's an OTF font you need to use in Paint.NET, try running it through the converter and installing the resulting TTF instead. Always keep the OTF version around in a folder somewhere, just in case you ever need the original.

Paint.NET uses the same font list as the system, so to add a font to Paint.NET, it need only be installed to the Windows Fonts directory. However, Paint.NET does not support OpenType font formats, only TrueType fonts, so I'm afraid the file you mentioned will not work. I know there are ways to convert font files to different formats, but I've never tried converting from OTF to TTF for use in Paint.NET. What is the name of the font in question?

You can indeed paste text. To do so, simply copy your text to the clipboard, click on the canvas with the text tool to activate the caret, and paste. That way, you can type up your content in a document editor to take advantage of spelling/grammar checking, then copy/paste it into Paint.NET and format your verified text for presentation.

Essentially, the Magic Wand selects areas of a color. There you go, five words. Now a few more for clarification: If, for example, you click on a red part of the image, the tool will create a selection expanding outwards from that point of any red pixels next to it, continuing to do so until it hits a different color. The Tolerance slider in the toolbar determines how picky it is on how close the color has to be to the first pixel you clicked before it stops selecting. Honestly, the easiest way to see what it does is to play with it - draw a black Filled Shape on the white background of a new image, switch to the Magic Wand, and click inside and outside the shape. The tool expands out until it hits the boundary between the colors, essentially selecting the shape or everything outside the shape. As for Smudge, it is not built in to Paint.NET, but you can install a plugin that allows you to smudge a layer. You can find out more about the plugin here: In the future, try giving http://searchpaint.net a shot. Searching "Smudge" returns the plugin you need as the first result. Regarding Cropping, there is no dedicated cropping tool, but there is Crop To Selection. The command does exactly what it says: crops the image to the size of the active selection. When an active selection exists, the button on the toolbar becomes clickable. So, to crop a photo, use the Rectangle Select Tool to draw a rectangle around the part of the image you want to keep, then hit Image > Crop To Selection or the Crop To Selection button on the toolbar.

Paint.NET has a gradient tool ( ), directly to the right of the Paint Bucket in the Tools window. It can also be accessed by the keyboard shortcut "G".

From the Frequently Asked Questions thread: So no, Paint.NET is not available for any flavor of Linux. If you're looking for a Paint.NET-like editor for Linux, you may want to check out Pinta: http://pinta-project.com/

The desire for a better printing interface is already acknowledged in the Popular Feature Requests thread. No further discussion is needed at this time. In addition, this particular thread is more than 10 months old, well past the three month dead-line stated in the Forum Rules. As such, this thread is locked.

Raster images will always lose quality when scaling up. As for vector editors, Inkscape is by far the best free option I've found. If it's not vector already, you'll want to take the background image into Inkscape and do a Bitmap Trace on it to get a vector representation of the raster image. The effect on the image already gives a pretty hard-edged effect, so the vector approximation should be fairly faithful. The glow behind the text is not a problem - SVG blur works the same as your basic Gaussian blur, and it's non-destructive.