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I noticed that in PDN, my reductions get blurry and smooth edged. That's exactly what I'm hoping to fix. I found one of those "dafont.com" fonts that was actually perfect (Thanks Kirby) and did some minor edits to make a dead match. I saved it at about 210dpi; the file size is very small, but for some reason, my app locks up when I hit print... I like printing in MS Photo Editor because I can reduce the size from the printer after reducing in PDN. For some reason, it helps keep the resolution clean. Anyone know why the MS Photo Editor would lock up like that? On LHS', I prefer to make my own decals as it's cheaper and I can make some from digital photos (replicas) etc.

Friends; I'm jacked up over this app and plan to use it for my hobby, which is model car building; mostly 1:25 scale plastic kits. I will be attempting to make my own decals with PDN. To start; I'm building an 88 Dodge Daytona. Check it out! I airbush automotive urithane on the bodies and use enamals for the trim. (I made the interior guages & related stuff with PDN. I didn't know what I was doing, but had fun and it didn't come out half bad!) Now, I need to make two insignia's; one that is the "Dodge" text logo and the other is the word "Daytona" in similar font. I can find Dodge logo's all day online. Here's one I found and saved in PDN: When I try to minimize it while keeping it real clean and crisp, things aren't going so well. I've been opening in PDN and simply reducing by percent. How can I do a better job? I need this thing to be about .25 inches wide. As for the "Daytona" ingsignia, I've got to make that one from scratch. I tried a few things; like going into word and making one with the closest font I can find and reducing to 5pt. Then, I copied and pasted in PDN, but again, the image loses quality; it's not as sharp edged and clean looking; kind of blury and as I reduce in PDN, things get worse. I'm sure that I'm probably doing several things wrong. Anyone have some advice on how I can do a better job with both tasks?

Hey; thanks to both of you. I figured it out. You'll have to pardon me in that I'm very impressed with this application but I'm a dunce on it. I have figured a few things out, but I assure you that despite reading through these forums and my own experimentation, I'll be posting questions until things just kick in. I really appreciate that everyone is eager to show me how to use this app. Thanks again! Off to post another Q!

What do you mean by "in layer's prop?" Bear with me; I'm very new with this app.

I want to post pics, but with watermark (or faded) text where I can see the image behind the text. I don't want text boxes. How do I perform text watermarks?

I need to reduce a bunch of photos substantially. I know how to do it through the "resize" feature & I also know how to manually enter a desired resolution. But, does anyone have any advice or tricks on doing reductions without sacrafice to clarity/resolution? For example, am I really better off reducing 20% at a time? What other things should I be doing?

Man! these answers came fast! Thanks!

I am editing photos with the enlargement up to about 1600%. I want to take a single pixel or box, copy it's color and save it in my saved color box/chart/window (whatever you call it) so that I can duplicate that color elsewhere, box by box. How do I do that? I know how to use the clone stamp, but that's not working for what I need to do. Thanks!