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I know, I was referring to that by mentioning portable I'm glad you appreciated it. As for you usedHONDA, I do not want something separate at all. If I wanted to use something with more options and control, I'd still be using The GIMP as my main graphics program afterall. I'd rather have something easy than something which is difficult just for the sake of offering users options they may never use, beyond the initial finding which setting works best for them.

Hm. I wish I was able to make a plugin myself. I would if I could. Your idea sounds very interesting. It wouldn't cover all my uses, but it would help me in various cases.

Hm. But PNG is not as.. portable as a Jpeg. At the moment it's my only option to save some files without sacrificing too much quality, but I'd really like to be able to use JPEGs, as the file- size is often but a fraction of PNG.

Is there anyone who might have a suggestion about what to do to increase the quality of JPEGs saved with Paint.net?

I hope something can be done about the way JPEGs are saved in Paint.net. Though I understand completely if it's not a priority, some changes in the foreseeable future would be very welcome. And if this is something the devs will not look into, I hope that they can provide a suggestion as to what can be done by others. Thanks for any further replies

Matt, as I stated: In short: As long as Paint.NET can create what I see as high quality and usable JPEGs, I do not need any settings other than the ones already included. As for the colours and font used, I didn't choose the colours specifically to create a most visible result as possible, I just picked 'some red colour' and 'some dark colour', because I knew that red + dark would result in what you see. I am not out to 'bash' or 'flame' Paint.NET, I just wanted to request something I felt was missing, though perhaps I should have asked for 'better quality JPEGs' instead of 'more settings or JPEGs'. And, if the developers don't see this as a priority or don't have the time to change the way JPEGs are implemented in Paint.NET, feel free to say so as well. Perhaps the majority of users don't mind or see the 'problem' I'm having and then I'd rather just hear that it won't be changed in the near future rather than trying to convince people without getting much headway. Thanks again for your replies

MattBlackLamb - Thanks for your input. I have created an image with a dark background and red text to show my main problem, hopefully with a bit more clarity. 1) original (PNG) 2) saved in The Gimp with the aforementioned settings 3) saved in Paint.NET with JPEG quality set to 100

Thank you both for your prompt replies. Myrddin - Your reply helps me in the sense that I now am beginning to understand why this feature was not implemented Rick Brewster - You got me there. Though I do not understand what each setting does, I *do* know that the combination of Subsampling 1x1x1x1 and DCT Method: Floating Point gives me a high quality jpeg. No messed up red colour for instance and not too visible artefacts (though the quality setting of 90 helps too). I will give an example, which will illustrate my point: 1) original (cropped from BMP screenshot) 2) saved in The Gimp with the aforementioned settings 3) saved in Paint.NET with JPEG quality set to 100 I do not wish to discuss design philosophy, I just wish to express my desire to save JPEG files with a higher quality than Paint.NET currently can. If there is a way to make Paint.NET default to settings which produce a JPEG of the quality I'm used to with The GIMP, I have no need to see nor have the ability to modify any setting, advanced or otherwise.

Hi everyone. I went from The Gimp to Paint.NET and there are two things I find myself wishing they would be part of Paint.NET too, purely because I would like to completely replace The Gimp with Paint.NET, without longingly looking back at The Gimp. 1) The auto-completion of file-names by their extension. The Gimp auto-adds .png for instance, when you choose Portable Network Graphics. At present, Paint.NET adds no extension at all, you have to add that for yourself, or you'll have a file Windows won't recognise. There's probably a reason for this, but I myself can't think of what that might be. Perhaps some textures for games, though being say.. gif, need a different extension for the engine to see them. But that might be far-fetched. 2) More options for JPEG-quality. In The Gimp, you have quite a few JPEG options, such as for quality and sub- sampling, floating-point and more. Now, these options allow me to save a JPEG without for instance the red "bleeding" as it does in many other programs, including Paint.NET. I would like to be able to reproduce saving high-qualuty, but low-filesize JPEGS like I can in The Gimp. Though PNG is an option, the file-size of PNG is much larger and even though most have broad-band, I prefer not to sub- ject anyone to a longer wait than necessary when I want to show them a picture of something. I hope I have posted this in the right section, I did search before I posted, so that this post should not be a repetition or duplicate of another. Have a nice evening *update* Here's a link to a screenshot of the The Gimp JPEG Options Dialog: http://docs.gimp.org/images/using/jpeg-save-dialog.png