Crazy Man Dan

I'm afraid your post breaks our "necroposting" rule, as this thread has been inactive for 8 months. As such, I must close this thread. To anyone looking for a solution using existing tools, may I suggest making a new layer and using the Line/Curve tool to draw a line following the slanted horizon of the photo you wish to straighten. As you are drawing, the angle of your line is shown in the status bar in the lower left. Remember that angle, switch to the photo layer, and use Layers > Rotate/Zoom to rotate the photo by the inverse of the angle. It's not automated, but it is the same process an automatic straightener tool would use.

It all depends on what type of background you're making - repeating, static, centered, et cetera. It also depends on how wide the site itself is - if the main body of your site is 900px, and you want a mild shadow effect repeating vertically, the image could be as small as 920px by 1px. If I'm dressing a site with a full decorative backdrop, I tend to go 1600px wide, fading it out at the ends into a solid color, which then repeats for people with large monitors who also browse full-screen style. Generally, the metric you want to control most with background images is file size, not dimensions. The dimensions of the image should be whatever the dimensions the site design require, but I'd say 100KB is about as high as I would go for a non-content image - I usually try to keep it under 50KB myself. If the background image you need is a large one, play with the quality to get the file size to reasonable levels.

Hey ganly, welcome to the forum. Please make sure you check out our forum rules. The Tutorials board and all its sub-forums are for tutorial publishing only. Requests like this should always go in General Discussion & Questions. I've moved your topic there accordingly.

In Paint.NET, all layers are blank canvases the size of the image itself, so you'd always be hovering over the topmost layer. I'm afraid this type of behavior simply isn't possible.

Unfortunately, AKG, if I'm understanding your problem correctly, I believe your hard work is lost. In Paint.NET, all layers are the size of the image, and any portion of a layer moved outside of the canvas is discarded when the move is finalized. Unless you still have the image open so as to undo everything all the way back there, you'll have to cut it out again. Whenever I'm cutting out an image, I tend to work with each one individually, save individual PDNs of each piece, then import the flattened cutouts into the final composition. With as much effort is involved in cutting out images, I find it's easiest to focus on the individual parts like that, and saving the PDNs of the cut out images means I can use that piece in another compilation in the future without having to cut it out again. Sorry I don't have better news for you.

Alternately, hold the Shift key when you click with the Paint Bucket. It will fill every region of the color within the selection, instead of just the contiguous region on the outside.

You mean you wouldn't be interested in Paint.NET branded mens trousers? Late last night, a spammer made their way through here and made a few replies to popular threads. They must have replied to one or more of the threads you were watching. When you watch a thread, you will be notified of all replies to that thread, spam or otherwise, as there's no way for it to tell in real time. We delete spam as soon as possible, but we can't un-send notification emails. I apologize for any inconvenience.

Hey guys, I've got a secret... Hidden Content: I've got a secret... The hide tags work again. One thing, though: the [reason] tag doesn't work any longer. It wasn't used that often anyway, but unfortunately, IP.B insists on breaking my inline onclick/onload/onanything calls, so the rewrite doesn't fire. However, I only did it that way because PHPBB didn't allow us to create tags with optional options. IP.B does. So now, if you want to title your hidden divs, the syntax is: [hide="title"]Hidden stuff[/hide] To leave your block un-titled, simply omit the ="title" in the opening tag.

Weird. When I log in to my account, I can edit my AIM info, but if I log in with a general member account, I can't see an AIM field to edit. I'll check into why that is and see what I can find, but in the mean time, I've removed your AIM information for you.

I think this might be the button you're looking for: Clicking "Find Posts" brings you to a list of the posts you've made - looks like the most recent 200 posts, at least that's the list I'm getting. It shows what thread each post is in, and it includes the thread status marker (new posts, no new posts, et cetera).

That'll happen with PNG, thanks to gamma "correction". Both IE and Safari will apply gamma "correction", but they're both different. Check out this article for more information: http://morris-photographics.com/photosh ... gamma.html

I'd guess they're referring to Liquefy.

Ah. Try "Quadrilateral Reshape" from the Evan's Effects pack here: viewtopic.php?f=16&t=27897

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There are far too many worms in that can. You've got legal questions regarding fonts, brushes, and stocks, as well as the possibility of our own potential liability in providing an insufficiently policed infrastructure that played a role in any transaction (I am not a lawyer). You've got the possibility of perceived tool limitations - since it's a forum for Paint.NET, would someone be ostracized if they provided a logo made in Illustrator (I know I'd sure want to use a vector program for logo designs)? There are already sites whose sole purpose is to bringing freelancers and clients together. If you enjoy helping people who are looking for designs, I'd suggest trying one of them. This site, however, is a support forum for a graphics application, and we are ill prepared for managing that kind of interaction.

Are you saying you want to just work with the your system cursor instead of the custom cursor that changes depending upon your currently selected tool?

I vote for Frontcannon.

This forum is for troubleshooting and assistance specifically regarding the usage of the Paint.NET application. Just because there are graphic designers here does not mean this is the place to solicit work from them, as stated by [rule=23]Rule 23[/rule]. Closed

It's right at the bottom of the first message of the thread Lance linked...

As much as I enjoy a good bit of sarcasm, being a graphics application, Paint.NET has a menu item that launches the Fonts manager because it has a direct relation to the Fonts manager. Since Paint.NET now automatically detects newly installed fonts, it's just as seamless as a built-in font manager would be, without the hassle of Rick having to write one himself and with the advantage of universal application - a font "installed for Paint.NET" is installed everywhere. One of our most common questions here on the forum is "How do I install new fonts into my Paint.NET". Since Paint.NET caters to a more casual crowd, it's much simpler to have a menu item that launches Explorer to a predefined path than to ask a user who already doesn't how to install a font to navigate to the Fonts folder themselves. I'm very sorry if that extra menu item is causing you emotional distress. As long as your Paint.NET is set to automatically check for updates, hopefully you can simply avoid opening that specific menu and minimize your pain...

Most image gallery applications have that sort of thing - Windows Preview, Irfanview, et cetera - but Paint.NET isn't a gallery manager, it's a raster editor. If you want to preview your images, I'd suggest sticking with the built-in Windows Preview, then editing the one you want when you find it.

The system requirements are right at the top at the Paint.NET Download page: http://www.getpaint.net/download.html

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