I've used Paint.NET before, but only just to see what it was, and I've never really done any heavy image editing. I do a lot of coding(C/C++, C#, Java) so I end up using "programmer art."
However now I need to do some image editing. I would like to know that if I have an image, how can I
- Make the image a lot lighter, so that if I were to write text over it, the text would be readable. I tried alpha blending, but either I'm not using the tool correctly, or this isn't the tool I need.
- Make the picture from shades of the same color. Like white, light blue, blue, dark blue, ... . Kind of like gray scale, but with a color.
Thanks, I really am a beginner at image editing, so any help would be appreciated.