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No. Older versions are specifically not supported. See Forum Rule #7...

^ Correct. The checkerboard pattern is a placeholder for transparent pixels. It will only show up in the paint.net editing environment. When you save the image in a format that supports transparency (like PNG but not JPG), the pattern will be replaced by transparent pixels.

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The CYMK colorspace is different from paint.net's RGB colorspace. CYMK is subtractive - the less ink you use the more white you get (paper). RGB is additive, the more data you add the whiter colors get. If you leave color information off using RGB, the monitor will show black. There is no 1:1 correlation between the two systems, so there is no plugin that can convert (in paint.net). If your printer absolutely insists on CYMK find another. Commercial print houses these days should be able to handle RGB based images. I generally (successfully) submit images as PDF's. We have a plugin for that: Im(age)PDF. RE: 300dpi - take the final size of your printed cards (in inches) and multiply by 300. Make your artwork this size in pixels.

Send your old one this way if you like

Irfanview will also open them...http://www.irfanview.com/plugins.htm GIMP also. Apparently.

^ agreed. Keyboard shortcut Ctrl + Shift + Z Info: http://www.getpaint.net/doc/latest/RotateZoom.html

PDN is the native format of paint.net. It preserves all the layer structure and information. Use it to create images that you can open again and edit the individual layers. A typical workflow has you save a master copy of an image as a PDN then resave it as a PNG or JPG. PNG is a lossless single layer format which preserves transparency. Images saved in this format do not lose quality if you select auto-detect or the maximum 32-bit settings. Auto detect is particularly nice because it selects the most efficient bit depth (& smaller file size) while preserving the quality. I use Dither and Transparency settings to customize the image only very rarely. Most users will never adjust these settings. JPGs are lossy. They lose quality with each save due to the compression of the data. They do not support transparency, instead substituting another color - usually white.

Gosh! What a beautiful voice HELEN!

What?? Where... Oh! Saw her in the trailer. It must be warmer in space than I imagined Perhaps they are close to a sun..... (for the record - I am not disposed against bikinis)

Ref: http://www.getpaint.net/doc/latest/MagicWand.html Make sure that the Flood Mode is set to Contiguous and not Global. Global selects all the pixels in the layer/image that satisfy the Tolerance. You don't want that, you want Contiguous. Then as Pixey said, lower the Tolerance until just the background is selected.

Once you have removed just the background, save the image as a PNG. JPG's do not support transparency - which is the usual cause of blocks of white/black.

I'd set the Primary to grey + opaque. Secondary to any color + fully transparent. Then render your clouds. Use the layer properties dialog (press F4) to lower the overall opacity until you get the effect you want. Save a master copy as a PDN image. The reason I recommend this technique is that it is very easy to reopen the pdn image and adjust the layer opacity if you want to fine tune it. Regarding the blocks of white, it sounds like you've saved the image as a JPG. These do not support transparency. Try saving the image as a PNG.

This tutorial http://forums.getpaint.net/index.php?/topic/26735-make-a-notepad-page/ uses the Paneling plugin

Grim Color Reaper

They're showing up in the first post for me on my home system. How strange. Let's try linking to the images on the page ReMake linked to....

Now I have the first showing and the others not showing. I'll host them elsewhere later today.

Yup. Showing up for me on Firefox. What browser are you using? Tried refreshing (F5)?

Usually these legacy files are the result of over-zealous anti-virus software. Here's how and why these are created.... For the full conversation go here http://forums.getpaint.net/index.php?/topic/26562-pdnbak-files/ possible solutions can be found here: http://forums.getpaint.net/index.php?/topic/84518-pdnbak-files-being-finnicky/?p=486883

Roll your own portable version by copying the installation directory onto a USB stick. Very recently this became much easier....

Previous five posts merged from a separate thread into this one.

Imageshack. Fixed. For now...

Go here: http://forums.getpaint.net/index.php?/topic/692-install-update-or-uninstall-trouble-read-this/ and read post #2 about the Windows Installer Cleanup Utility. That should take care of any stray bits of paint.net left in your system. A number of forum users are also using Revo Uninstaller for the same purpose - see http://forums.getpaint.net/index.php?/topic/106722-can-not-install-408/?p=510518 Next, here's a possible solution if you have access to another PC which either has paint.net 4.0.9 or it can be installed on http://forums.getpaint.net/index.php?/topic/21378-accidentally-deleted-installation-folder/?p=370712 and if all else fails: http://forums.getpaint.net/index.php?/topic/21262-im-missing-paintdotnet-419667103/?p=354183

Images restored. Thank you to @ReMake

I assume you mean cycling the active layer status through the layers list? Considering that a huge number of layer might exist in a single image, wouldn't you just be better just clicking on the right layer?