SearedIce

I have more images open in that session than are displayed in the thumbnail viewer. I can't find any way to see those other images that are open...I can't scroll the thumbnail viewer. I'm sorry if I'm missing something... Maybe add a scrollbar (would take up a bunch of space, though). Or, I was thinking that it would be nice to be able to scroll through the thumbnails by clicking and dragging. (Then you'd have to make it so that when you clicked and held the click for dragging, it wouldn't necessarily select the image you clicked down on to drag...that'd be annoying).

Good job, Rick! It's working!

If you want, you can press your keyboard's Delete or Del key to erase it faster than using the Eraser tool.

When using the Spacebar in conjunction with Ctrl to both pan (mouse movement) and zoom (scrollwheel), I see the following problem: If I start by holding both Ctrl and Spacebar, if I let go of Ctrl only, I cannot zoom or pan. However, if it is the Spacebar that I let go of first, I can still zoom but not pan. The latter is expected behaviour...you might want to make the former behave similarly. Also, after letting either of those two keys up, pressing them down again (while still holding the other down) does not re-enable the control that key offered before being released. Thanks, John

To get a picture onto your computer's clipboard, open it in Paint.NET or some other software like MS Paint. Then, select the whole image (usually by going to the Edit menu and clicking on "Select all". Then, press Ctrl+C or go to the Edit menu and click on "Copy". Now, the image is on the clipboard. You can only have one image on the computer's clipboard at a time. Now, open up your collage file in Paint.NET, and go to the Edit menu and click on "Paste" or simply press Ctrl+V.

Intel Centrino T1350 @ 1.86GHz 504MB RAM Windows XP Media Center Edition Version 2002 SP2 It's a Toshiba Satellite, and I'm on an admin account.

I've been looking through some old posts (from before I was allowed into this part of the forums) and it seems this has happened before. Should I just go ahead and upate manually, or do you want to have me test anything first?

When I run "Check for updates..." on M1 2450.32956, the update window appears, finds M2 2453, and gives me a dialog box with an "Install" button. When I hit "Install" it downloads the update, and a new dialog comes up that says "Paint.NET must cloes to install the update. After you click OK, you will be asked to save any changes if necessary" and shows the new version number below. When I hit "OK," the update dialog closes, but Paint.Net doesn't close, and it doesn't update... I know that I could update by downloading and installing the new file, but I thought I should report this anyway. -John

Does your friend know english?

I had to do this once for a 3d animation. I wound up drawing all of the lines...I couldn't find any better method.

If you hold Ctrl on your keyboard while using the arrow keys to move, it moves in larger increments!

Not, Paint.net does not yet have pallette-changing ability. Sorry.

AHHH!! THE G-Word!!!

Check your alpha blending setting. It is in the toolbar at the top next to the antialiasing setting.

They look great, Josh! Are they 100% Paint.net? Again, those graphics look very good...

Yeah, that post is what prompted me to write this. I just didn't want to steal the thread. I was thinking that it was discussed some time in the past. I'm glad to hear that a solution is in the works. I didn't think about a floating point coordinate system...that's interesting. That idea reminds me of another thing I thought I would bring up sometime: In many of Photoshop's features, things can be done in fractions of pixels. For instance, you can do a .5 pixel gaussian blur. Will this ever be implemented? These sorts of fractional pixel inputs would make small-image editing much easier (or at least, much nicer). For example, if you were doing something with a 50x50 image and for some reason a 1 pixel blur were perfect for what you wanted, you would not be able to get your "perfect" blur for a version of the image that is 25x25 or really anything that is smaller than the original. I know this could be a pain to code for something like a gaussian blur (I've read about the algorithms), but it's worth a look.

Ah, Photo Editor. It was all I used for photomanipulation for a while (and it isn't so bad if you play with the Copy/Paste feature and the Smudge/blur tools). The Smudge tool is something that I think Paint.net needs. I like how PDN is being designed to be "familiar to users of MS Paint," but I think that Photo Editor should be included in that familiarity goal, and it is for the most part. I think many people who used MSPaint also used PhotoEditor... This topic (the move selection stuff) is a good example of how PDN is becoming a lot like Photo Editor. Once I have my Smudge tool, I will be really happy. Oh, and this is my 200th post. WOOOT

I have the weird feeling that this has already been discussed, but I can't find any posts about it. Here goes: I make a very small selection (say, 2x2 pixels). I zoom in so that I can see the selection well. I activate either the "Move Selected Pixels" or "Move Selection" tool. Now, when I try to grab handles for resizing, I have a hard time grabbing the correct handles. Clicking and holding DIRECTLY on some handles at this small selection size will not always grab the correct handle. From what I know about programming, it seems that the current code is handling (yeah, bad pun) handle selection based on where the cursor is on the image, not where the cursor is on the computer screen. So, the region around each handle in which clicking will select that handle overlaps with the same regions for other handles, resulting in unpredictable handle selection behaviour for very small selection sizes. If I'm correct, I might suggest changing this so that it determines which handle one winds up selecting based on the cursor's screen location rather than its image location. Thanks for reading, John

I'm with born2kill...

It sounds like you're using the old code. Try this: http://searedice.rchomepage.com/images/ ... nsFade1.cs

When you "Save As" a file as a JPG, it should ask you to input the quality level. This will only happen with JPG files, but that's probably what you are using anyway.

You can have Windows show files with their full names. Like, your "untitled" png would look like this: "untitled.png" or "untitled.PNG". If you want to do this, go to the Control Panel (Start Menu->Control Panel), then open Folder Options, then click the "View" tab at the top of the dialog box. Now, scroll down in the little window, and uncheck the box that says "Hide extensions for known file types".

What I would do is as follows: Create a new file. Make it the width/height that your pictures will be. Select all and press "Delete" on your keyboard. Draw the text in the corner you want. Then, save it as a .pdn file. That's your text with a transparent background. Now, open a picture to edit. Then, go to the Layers menu and click on "Import From File..." Find the file with the text, and click "Open". If this doesn't work for you, let me know...

First, draw the lightning bolt. Then, duplicate the lightning bolt layer. Then, apply a Gaussian blur to the duplicated layer. Choose an appropriate radius in the blur dialog. If you need the blur to be more visible, duplicate the blur layer...it will make it look brighter. I also made a radial blur layer to add a little bit of variety and randomness to the bolt. I just thought it made it look a bit nicer...?

I've also noticed that the crawling ants borders really eat up the processor. It really kills when I'm selecting something intricate in a photograph...