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You can package the image into a ZIP file, then upload to an online host such as MediaFire. Provide the link and let us have a gander.At the moment, to me it does sound peculiar indeed. I cannot speak for other users here, but having the image to examine would be the best option right now.

Just because you haven't been responded to doesn't mean you've been ignored.Oh no. Rick, the lead developer, will have seen this, as have the countless users passing through here. Rick would have noted this and no doubt filed a bug-report on it. That doesn't guarantee a fix for the next release, but does guarantee awareness of the issue. As for the aforementioned 'countless members', well, we don't know everything nor can answer every troubleshoot. We try not to answer blindly, so if we haven't replied, we don't know of a solution. Sorry if you feel neglected. Nothing personal against you .

The following, linked topic will be of immense use to you; as you will see, we've seen and dealt with this before: viewtopic.php?f=10&t=25244.That should detail the technical issue and solution.

Hello badkitty1. Now, we need a little more information on what you're confused about to help. With what you said, we have no idea what stage you're up to, what troubles you have encountered, in all giving us nothing to help you with. We are not psychics, you know .

...in which case, there is nothing you can do in terms of 'highlighting' it. You see, a document's text rely on vector capabilities, of which Paint.NET does not do in any shape or form - we are a raster editor instead. If the case is true, then you might have to Clone Stamp ( :CloneStamp: ) the current text out of the image, then retype the desired text on a new layer in the style, font, etc. you need. Once you've typed it and are happy with it, merge the text layer down into the image (Layers menu > Merge Layer Down) and save. Now, for saving, what some users do is to save the layered version of their project as one copy (in Paint.NET's native format, PDN), and another as a flattened copy to view, distribute, whatever at will (PNG, JPG, BMP are the most commonly used formats for this). This is purely optional, and completely up to you, so long as you do have a flattened copy somewhere, you'll be able to use the photograph as you have before.

Do you have a repro to give? I've just tried a few of my most common ways of opening an image in the circumstance you describe, but with little replacing as a result. It doesn't mean I've tried every possible option to opening, which is why a repro would be as nice as ice cream. Maybe Rick knows of it because it's intentional, and maybe I've missed something terribly obvious...

This might have been better asked in the tutorial itself, nevertheless, is the tutorial you speak of this: viewtopic.php?f=15&t=21019 ? If it is, could you take a screenshot or two of both the resulting image from the fractal and also the dialog? It would be good if we could see exactly what you mean by 'bright as the sun'. Perhaps it could be a setting you have enabled or adjusted which is giving the extraordinary brightness. Many thanks, Tucker.

I find that the basic-level tutorials for The GIMP and Photoshop to be quite useful when tutorials here lack. I say 'basic-level' because the beginner tutorials are less likely to use advanced features of the two programs, therefore more chance of it being easily 'converted' to Paint.NET. In the past, I've used PS Hero with some success, but there are countless ones out there. Don't forget to find GIMP guides as well, as sometimes users are put-off the tutorials on account of the not-so-friendly UI; there are some excellent ones abound.

Greetings souwesterly. This is a known issue, and one that has been addressed before. A workaround to this temporary problem ('temporary' in terms that a fix will eventually come, around the 4.xx series) is to: - Open the image; - select all (Ctrl + A); - copy (Ctrl + C); - paste to a new canvas (Ctrl + Alt + V); - save (Ctrl + S). The thumbnail will be updated as a result. As for the large-scale reshuffling, this is a new symptom. It begs the question to whether this is entirely Paint.NET's fault... Regardless, the above solution will set you on the right road again.

You see, that's quite funny, in that your 3.3 megapixel camera produces smaller images than my 3.2 mobile phone (cell phone) camera, which snaps pictures at 2048x1536. Not really. All a higher resolution will do is create larger sized photos. Bear in mind also, that with larger sized images comes greater opportunity to see the defects of the image, such as the slightest movement when capturing the photo. For all you know, the lack of 'sharpness' is due to human-error. But essentially you're zooming in to the pixel level of a huge image, therefore everything will appear bigger and you will loose the coherency of the picture. Whereas with a smaller image, you can zoom in and still have it 'retain' its form - this harkens to Simon's response: there are less pixels to deal with. David is quite correct with his response, too; take note of it.

Okay, that looks the same to my untrained eye, nevertheless, the animation tutorial I linked to should be right. If I'm still not grasping what you want, perhaps a little more description is in need. For example, are you wanting to animate in Paint.NET, or are you requiring help with creating each image? For the animation in particular, you will have to make each frame yourself - appearance suggest tools such as Line / Curve, Pencil and Text tool should be about right - then saving each frame (or image as it will be) as a GIF file. At this point, the free utility UnFREEz can bind all the frames into one animation.

Ah yes, but it's for the fact that Windows Photo Printing wizard is not the best to print with, even if you have the canvas set to how you said. Do you not think we've tried that before? Windows seems to assume too much of our printing requirements, taking control over too much and leaving very little as far as configuration goes in the hands of the user. We all yearn for the power of Paint's printing, and wait we shall all have to do.

Hello claire-babee. When you say 'blinkie', do you mean these: http://www.free-blinkies.com/blinkies/Geek/ ? If so, then perhaps this tutorial on animating in Paint.NET will be of some use to you: viewtopic.php?f=15&t=2492 Do say if this is what you're looking for, but if it isn't, don't hesitate to tell us what it is you are meaning.

As for how to draw them, then there are numerous tutorials and pixelart dedicated websites around the Internet. Ash wrote it very well, in that as the Pencil tool is all you need, any tutorials you do find can easily be transposed to Paint.NET, even if they weren't originally written for it.

Plugin authors are very considerate in that they try to create as a little work for us as possible. You'll be fine to install them as if new, unless explicitly stated otherwise in the plugin topic.

Hello Qebafhzn. For this, what we would do is to type out the text on a new layer, doing so in such a way that this is to be the fill to the text - if you want your fill to be blue, type the text in blue. Next, for the outline, you could use either of the Outline Object plugins, the first of which by pyrochild, and the second by BoltBait (as part of his pack; pyrochild's plugin pack resides here: viewtopic.php?f=16&t=21706). Doing all this on its own layer eases the process, as both plugins require transparency around the object to be outlined - you can't very well do that with imagery around the text. Both plugins also allow you to choose the colouring of the outline within its dialog.

EDIT: okay, I've just seen when Jordan's comment was posted... Ugh, I dislike being out-of-the-loop for a while. Because whilst I could list for every file type every place of upload, I'm not going to as the list would end up being huge. Throughout the Forum, we advise users to utilise the services of either Photobucket or Imageshack, therefore within my tutorial I conformed to our own advice.If a certain amount of interest arises in uploading ICO files, I will amend my tutorial to include your recommended site. Or to ZIP the ICO file for upload here.

If you are creating a game, a better format and method would be to use Flash animation. Taking the easiest construction of such an animation, there are a few What You See Is What You Get (WYSIWYG) pieces of software where everything is created 'in-house' (thus no need to cross applications if this is what you are hoping to avoid) and is relatively simple to animate elements or introduce interactivity - with a little practice, time and effort.Now, with this, the format for the graphics of the project is usually a vector one (SVG, etc.), not a raster such as PNG. This is not to say that PNGs cannot be used - you are able to import raster objects - just that a vector would give you greater control over editing the object. I would not want to turn you away from Paint.NET, but if you are planning the creation of a game, I can't see that Paint.NET would be the best, sole tool for the job. I am no animator nor game designer, but I have dabbled once or twice, finding that Flash is far superior than a per-frame basis of operation. There are a few freeware alternatives to Adobe's Flash systems, some good, whilst some not so. Whatever the case, some research in this area would not go a miss.

Greetings there, Paint By Numbers. If you were to hold down the Shift key whilst drawing your gradient, it will constrain the angle to 15° intervals, which would include 45° and 90°. That'll do it for you.

Yes it does, and quite well, too: You'll want to tilt the globe control in Rotate / Zoom upwards. In my example, the figures read as: Angle - 0.00; Twist Angle - 90.00; Twist Radius - 45.00. Please forgive my confusion, but that looks to be exactly what you were looking for. However, if the plugin works for you better, I will not and cannot not stop you using it.

Then your image has a white background as the 32-bit PNG version retains the image's alpha information (the additional 8 bits over the 24-bit PNG is the space non-colour data is saved with, as in alpha data).May I assume you can see the chequerboard pattern behind your image to indicate transparency? If not, and the image is still in its layered state, uncheck the visibility of the whitened layer or delete it completely, then save. However, if the image is not layered, then you will need to cut out the background; you can do this in two main ways: - Cutting Out Images the Easy Way tutorial; or - the process of alpha masking (plugin | tutorial). You follow the same steps as the above tutorial except you create a mask at the end of it and use the associated plugin. Depending how well you create your mask, you can produce some professional-looking cut-outs. 24-bit saving would insert a white background, 32-bit would not.

You might find that is quite standard practice, as a closer look is bound to give the opportunity to better conform to the intricacies of the object's boundary. With very simple subjects, such as base shapes and easy enough figures, one could get away with a quicker trace. However, for finer details, such as hair or even the fingers of the hand, zooming in proves invaluable for a superior cut. Don't forget alpha masking (plugin | tutorial). You follow the same steps as the Cutting Out tutorial (linked by Crimson) except you create a mask at the end of it and use the associated plugin. Depending how well you create your mask (per Pluberus' advice), you can produce some professional-looking cut-outs; an absolute winner with some users. Also remember to save your image as a 32-bit PNG image, as the PNG file type retains transparency - which means that anything cut out can be easily used for other purposes as your figure will have a transparent background. You can save in this format by following the usual process of saving (File > Save As), selecting PNG from the Save as type drop down, then selecting the appropriate option in the configuration dialog.

In the error message you quoted, the following line of it is the most important: So you won't see Posterize from Ed's package.As to any other plugins not working, it might be useful at this point to list the steps you do take to install your plugins. Not how you should install them, rather how you do it. This might highlight any anomalies in your practice that could be causing this hindrance; we could carry on hailing questions at you, so it'd be helpful to narrow down our questioning. Also: moved to Troubleshooting & Bug Reports

The only reason I use Esc is that other programs use the Esc key to deselect/void/finalise/etc. the object or process. Ctrl + D, on the other hand, either performs a completely different function or does nothing at all (for example, GIMP: duplicates the open image; Inkscape: duplicates the selected object; Firefox: bookmarks the page). It is also easier for me to sweep my left hand up and around my keyboard to reach the key which lies on the uppermost left corner.

Different terms for the same thing, both can be used synonymously. I just wanted to clarify to answer you correctly. I'm glad it helped you.