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You cannot do this in Paint.net. The only way to edit text is to delete it, and then type it in again. This is easiest when you put the text on its own layer.

The Crop tool in Paint.net is "Crop To Selection". In Paint.net, you can select a circle, and thus you can crop to a selected circle. To select a circle with the Ellipse Select tool, hold down the Shift key while selecting. To crop this circle, us the "Crop To Selection" button or find it in the Image menu. Making a program remove noise automatically is complicated...you can do it by hand, however, through careful use of the Magic Wand, the Clone tool, and possibly the Gaussian blur. You could try the Curves adjustment as well...

Tolerance tells Paint.net how carefully to select areas of matching color. With Tolerance at 0, if you click on a light red pixel, a medium or dark red pixel next to it will not be selected as well. With Tolerance at 50, the medium pixel will be selected too, but the dark one won't be. With Tolerance near 100, most pixels (possibly including the dark one) will be selected. At 100 Tolerance, everything is selected.

I can't think of any way to bend text or images, but if you want it to taper, you can use the Rotate/Zoom Tool. When the tool window is open, drag the three controls at the top of the window to see what they do and to get the effect you want. Basically, you can add a perspective look to an image, thus tapering the image in different ways.

See this topic: http://paintdotnet.12.forumer.com/viewtopic.php?t=929

Have you tried the new full version of 2.6? You must make sure that .NET 2.0 is properly installed. Try reinstalling .NET 2.0...

I'm just responding to J Gaston and LV426's comments...they are talking about brushes. With the cutout stuff, that's just a matter of using the Gaussian blur on the cut-out items.

LOL. From the newest screenshot. What exactly does the "o rly?" layer do?

With this example, at an alpha of 70, is there actually any feathering? I thought it was simply that the alpha was lower, and so simply less of the painted color is going onto the image... I don't think the edges of the brush are actually blurred while painting. Like, I think the edge is still "crisp" like at alpha=255, but the brush is simply painting with transparent "ink". Rick? No matter which way it is, the feathering should be a separate control from the alpha...there are times when I might want the alpha at the center of the brush to be 255 and 0 at the edges and there are times I want it to be a single alpha all the way through the brush. I have the feeling that there is no feathering currently, and it would make a nice addition to the brush tool. It would be a VERY nice addition to the Clone tool. I have been simulating "Feathering" in Paint.net by making my brush width about 25% smaller than I want, and by reducing the alpha about 50% of what I want. Then, when I go to clone or paint, I move the brush around in small circles while painting (or cloning) so that the edges have a softer look than the center. This is how I painted the blue stuff in my avatar.

It seems he wants to get into making plugins. I haven't started playing around with plugins yet...I got a new computer and VS .NET isn't installed yet...surprisingly...

I just noticed that while inputting text, the Home and End keys on the keyboard don't do what they normally do with text. Normally these keys move the cursor to the front or end of the line the user is typing on.

You should download the source code. It comes with tools and info for making effects/adjustments plugins. http://www.eecs.wsu.edu/paint.net/download.html (at bottom of page)

I ran into this exact problem yesterday. My image was less than 8x10, so I simply resized the canvas size on my image to 8x10. The image itself was still its original size (smaller than 8x10) and I put it in the middle of the page. Then, in the print wizard, I picked the 8x10 option, and it printed out to almost perfect scale.

You say you are importing the image...this process probably changes the resolution in "Quark". Try simply opening the image. If the problem persists, stop using "Quark." Paint.NET shouldn't be playing with your resolutions for opening/saving. However, I have noticed that when I have two Paint.NET processes open, and I copy something from one window's document that is at some resolution to the other window's document which is at a different resolution, the difference in resolution isn't dealt with, and the image is pasted in at the same pixel width/height as it was when I copied it from the first window. This is technically proper behaviour, but it has been confusing me quite a bit in the last couple days as I have been trying to print several images at as similar a scale as possible. The solution for these problems, however, is just to be careful while resizing and copying to be sure everything is at the same resolution. -John

Is there any technique that may be employed to antialias features after they have been rendered to a layer in Paint .NET. I understand that if the image is large enough, a 1 pixel Gaussian blur may work, but I am just wondering if anything else works better and 100% of the time. Any ideas, Rick?

I think that by magnetic lasso, he means a lasso tool that searches near where you are selecting and finds edges (sharp changes in pixel values between neighboring pixels). It is useful for selecting an object that contrasts with the background.

Antialiasing blends sharp edges to reduce jagged-looking features on your pictures.

You don't need to use pencil. First, simply click on the Clone Stamp tool. Then hold Ctrl and click where you want to copy from. Then, let go of Ctrl, and click where you want to copy to.

That could work, especially if you wanted the hole to be filled with something particular. If you simply want to cover up the splotch, you probably want to use the "Clone Stamp" tool. In Paint .NET, Press F1 (or go to "Help Topics" in the Help menu) and then find the "Clone Stamp" link on the left side of the help file. Click this link and read how to use Clone Stamp. In the Clone Stamp help page, look at the bottom example image...this is sort of what you probably want to do. Don't be afraid to ask any questions here.

http://paintdotnet.12.forumer.com/viewtopic.php?t=756 Excellent!

Ah...I thought that might be what you want. Well...follow what I said until you get to "Make the selection the size that you want (5x7 etc.)." Now, I will describe how to use this ratio. Make sure you have the Move Selection tool activated (the button to the right of Lasso). Grab one of the corners of the selection window, and drag it while holding SHIFT on the keyboard. This keeps the ratio constant. Line up the selection box how you like on your picture, and then crop the picture with the Crop to Selection button (as I described before). Now you will have part of the original image that is at the ratio you specified. Now, if you want to print the image at a specific size, simply use Image->Resize (Ctrl-R) and size the image to what you want.

AHHH I get it! Ok... At the top of the window, change the "Units:" selection box from "Pixels" to "Inches". Make a selection with the Rectangle Select tool. At the bottom left side of the Paint .NET window, you can see the dimensions of your selection box as you make the box. Make the selection the size that you want (5x7 etc.). Click the button next to the Lasso tool (it is called "Move Selection"). Now, you can move the selection box area around or you can change it's size with the handles at the corners. When you have it in the place you want, click the "Crop to Selection" button that is at the top of the Paint.NET window next to the Paste button or go to the "Image" menu and click "Crop to Selection" or press Ctrl+Shift+X. Let me know if this takes care of all of the functionality of Picture It!.

In the Credits file, the accents on "versión" in "Version x.x" are missing. En "Files.AboutCredits.rtf", le faltan los acentos en "versión x.x".

So your original question is answered? I'm confused. I'm going to look up info on Picture It... Ok...in the Picture It! Photo manual (from Microsoft's website), it seems that the resizing procedures are the same as in Paint .NET. You can either select an image and then drag the resize handles, or you can go to the menu at the top of the screen ("Format" in Picture It!, and "Image" in Paint.NET) and get then click on "Resize Image". It seems that in both programs, the window that shows up should have the same things on it (a percentage increase box, custom # inputs, and unit selections). If you still can't figure it out, try rephrasing your question.