[Morphing and animated images]

Wow, I can see it's going to take me a while to learn how to use this awesome program! There are so many hidden features and tricks.

Here's my first attempt (this is eventually going to be a banner for my Lord of the Rings Online kinship page:

[Removing a background color?]

Ah, I see. I didn't have any idea what that tool was, but it's actually kind of important.

Thanks!

[Morphing and animated images]

Can anyone recommend an approach to creating an animated image by morphing two source images?

I'm checking out Morpheus now, but I was curious if PDN has any support for it.

Thanks.

[Removing a background color?]

Ok, that let me select the text, and copy it onto a new (transparent) layer, thanks!

[Removing a background color?]

Ok, I must be doing something wrong.

I have a simple image, white background with some blue text on it.

I want to remove the white; i.e., make it fully transparent.

I tried using the Recolor tool. I changed by Primary color to have a Transparency - Alpha of 0. I right-clicked on the background to set my Secondary to white. I left-clicked (and ctrl-left-clicked) to try and change it. I was expecting the background to change from white to transparent (checkered), but I could only get it to work if I used a non-transparent color.

I also tried the Paint Bucket (fill) tool, but had similar results.

Using the Eraser tool worked, but that's a slow process, and prone to error.

So, what am I doing wrong?

Thank you for any help,

-J

[Adding borders (or beveled edges)?]

The worked great for me, thanks very much!

I used the Gradients... plugin, Square, and just kept duplicating until it looked good to me.

I've got one more question, but it's unrelated, so I'll make a new topic.

[Adding borders (or beveled edges)?]

Thanks for quick response, Extra!

Those are great effects. I think the 4th one is the one I'm looking for. I'm still not knowledgable enough to follow most of the tutorials, but I'll try; that one looks pretty easy.

Thanks again,

-J

[Adding borders (or beveled edges)?]

Hi... I'm new to Paint.NET. Great program, but I could not find any way to search/index the help pages.

I tried searching the forum, but the relevant topics assumed I knew how to do certain steps, which I do not.

I have a simple requirement (I think). I have a picture, and I'd like to either add a border to it, or change its edge pixels to become a border. Perhaps like a 3D-ish effect. Perhaps with a drop shadow. Is there a way to "bevel" the edge?

Is there a tool or plugin to do this? It seems like such a common thing, I must be missing something.

The closest I got was increasing the canvas size, while leaving the image centered.

Thank you!