Deborah

This is great. I love the light tone of your words - it's nice to see some personality in a tutorial. I even liked the pun (and I usually abhor all punnery ). Shouldn't that be switched to "the black [highest amount of black] comes out white"?

What you're seeing is the Microsoft Photo Printing Wizard. It's a windows thing, not a Paint.NET thing. I think there was a thread about this and what you could do to print pictures at the right size. Let me see if I can find it. Edit: Hmmm this is what I found. It seems the only way to print to size is to save your image as a .png and print it from another program. A better printing interface is listed under the Popular Feature Requests.

There's the ipod commercial tutorial, but it basically says the same things that have been said here.

Tutorials are meant to show users how to use the Paint.NET tools or how to make a really spectacular effect. If you are new to Paint.NET, you shouldn't be making a tutorial, you should be following tutorials. Spend some time with the program, learns it's ins and outs by doing other people's tutorials and then, when you have something new and exciting to contribute, you can make one. It'll be nice to see what you come up with. PS You should edit your thread title to something more descriptive. Something like: "Looking for tutorial ideas" would be good.

You'll want to set your primary colour to red and your secondary colour to black. Then select the recolor tool and paint over the area you want to change (like it was a paintbrush). It helps to set the brush size very big if you're going to do the whole picture.

If it does get implemented, the earliest you could possibly see it is in the next version of Paint.NET, which is still a ways off. I'd like to see this too, but we'll have to be patient.

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Yay, thanks!

I like the plugin, but I'm getting some very odd behavior. I add a new layer to my image and select a rectangle that I want to add a border around. I start the plugin, but no border appears on the preview. I click OK anyways. The border shows up on the tiny version of the layer in the layers window, but not on the actual image. Then I make the layer invisible, then visible again and the border shows up on the image. The border is around the entire image though, not around my selection. Then, I undo the Borders and Shapes. Though it's undone in my history, the border is still there! I tried other render pluging that work on a selection (gradient bars, light rays) and they worked fine. I also tried re-starting PDN, but it didn't help.

That's great, thanks! This gives me a whole new way to cut out images.

Wow... amazing. I need to go try resizing every picture I can find now.

Robjackson, I may be wrong, but I think what you're looking for is to put an image as a new layer on top of another existing image. To do this, open your first image, then go to the "Layers" menu at the top of the screen and select "Import From File". You can pick a second image to open as a new layer on top of the first.

I've love to see an option here for the opposite alpha - so the closer the colour is to the primary colour, the more transparent it is.

A lot of plug-in authors post the source code of their plug-ins. You could just take the code, add the icon and compile it (no de-compiling necessary).

Adjustments > Auto-level does wonders for that picture. I did the auto-level, then did the Sharpen effect (amount 5) and the Surface Blur effect (radius 5, threshold 10). Then I shrunk the picture down to 50% and got this: Edit: Surface Blur can be found as part of Ed Harvey Effects. Please see the plugin forum for instructions on installing plugins.

The effect of the second one is called an Aurora. There's a tutorial for it here

Cool, thanks.

I like it. Maybe add some texture to the background so it looks like it was painted on fabric?

My sig is simple, but I like it.

They didn't even bother to take the words Paint.NET out of the title bar in the screenshots. Now that's just lazy!

barkbark, did you do those bone letters by hand, or is that a font?

When I look at my LCD from below, the screen mostly just looks a little darker, so you could start by adjusting the brightness. You could try playing with the Hue / Saturation settings too. I think you're just going to have to play with the Adjustments menu settings until the image looks how you want it to.

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If your icon is a hand , it will stretch the selection, if the icon is a black arrow (you aren't near any of the nubs), it will move it.