BoltBait

Right-Click on Feather.DLL and choose Properties. Click the Security tab. Click on the various people in the Group or Usernames box and look at the permissions displayed below.

Maybe the permissions are messed up on that file. Make sure it can be read by everyone.

Well, click it!

Double check to see if there is an "Unblock" button in the properties on the DLL in the Effects folder.

I'm pretty sure you do need to be Administrator. Did the Feather.DLL file show up in the Effects folder when you copied it there?

That's funny. It should still work no matter what drive your program files are on. "%ProgramFiles%" is a variable that points to your Program Files directory. Anyway, it doesn't matter. Just open the Program Files folder on your D drive and find the Paint.NET folder. Double click on that and then double-click on the Effects folder. Paste the DLL file into that effects folder.

I'll assume you're having trouble with my Feather effect. (Just so I have some name to type.) Since you said that you put the Feather.DLL file on your desktop, do this: 1) Right-Click on Feather.DLL and choose Properties 2) Look at the bottom of the general properties page and click the "unblock" button if it exists. If there isn't one, ignore this step. 3) Click OK to close the properties dialog box. 4) Right Click on Feather.DLL and choose "Copy" from the menu 5) Click the Start button and click Run 6) In the Run dialog box, enter: %ProgramFiles%/Paint.NET/Effects 7) Press enter. That should open your paint.net effects folder window. 8) Go inside of that window and cllick the Edit > Paste menu. You should see the Feather.DLL in the window. 9) If Paint.NET is open, close it. 10) Run paint.net 11) Click the Effects menu and look for the "feather" command. When following these steps, where are you having trouble?

Read this: http://boltbait.googlepages.com/install Basically, you need to put the DLL files into your Program Files/Paint.NET/Effects folder.

I don't recall Paint.NET ever having a lens glare effect. Although, both Photoshop and Corel Photo Paint have one.

Funny, I thought he meant something like this: http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/38104908/ or, this: http://paintdotnet.12.forumer.com/viewtopic.php?t=3281 Of course, until the original poster gives us a clue, how can we help?

Like this: http://boltbait.googlepages.com/install

Show us an example of the effect you wish to create and someone here will tell you how to do it with Paint.NET.

I think your grass looks fine. However, your sky needs a little perspective...

You don't need to--its obviously OK. Just click the button.

View the image in IE, right-click on the image > copy. Run Paint.NET, Edit > Paste into new image File > Save

You are correct, Windows 2000 support has been dropped. Version 2.72 is the last one that supports Windows 2000.

I would like to see a tutorial on how to make this image.

Click the "Quote" button in the upper right corner of the post you want to copy. By the way, I am in no way affiliated with Paint.NET or the Paint.NET development team. Rick simply asked me to be a moderator on this discussion board as I hang around here a lot.

I don't ever plan on making a new version of paint.net... What makes you think I would? :wink: Perhaps you should ask Rick Brewster

You have 2 options... 1) wait to draw your arrow until the next release of Paint.net 2) Draw a larger selection and draw the arrow horizontal, then right-click the corner and rotate to your desired angle Notice that none of your options include me fixing the Arrow effect.

How do you know? Maybe I updated it.

IE can show me the image, but Right-Click > Preview can not. I don't have the Jpeg2000 plugin loaded to test it. Could it be one of those? EDIT: Nope, its not a Jpeg2000 image. Something screwy going on here...

Actually, I kinda like it.

What software did you use to create the JPG files? That software is not creating a properly formed JPG file.

I like it. 8)