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Use the Recolor Tool that's it's function. Read up on it here: http://www.getpaint.net/doc/latest/RecolorTool.html

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For the flyer - use Publisher. Save it as a PDF and link to that as a download from the website. Paint.NET is an image editor. Use it to make stand-alone images - not assembling brochures, flyers, handouts, etc...., If you want crisp text on a website use HTML, don't put it in an image.

If you want sharp text on a website, use text and not an image containing text. Not only will the text be clearer your page will download faster. Edit: if you are going to use an image containing text, make absolutely sure the image is being shown at 100% and not being rescaled by the browser. In other words, make the width and height dimensions in the HTML/CSS exactly the same as the image dimensions.

RFX - just so you know, the DPI setting is only used to calculate the print size. It has no effect on the quality of the resize operation. Changing it doesn't make your image sharper or clearer in any way.

More that you should know: Win XP may not render text as clearly as Win7 or Win8. See: http://forums.getpaint.net/index.php?/topic/24568-text-is-blocky-low-resolution/ Note Pyrochild's workaround - similar to what I said above but was intended for screen quality, not your specific printing issue. To work out exact font sizing, see Rick's formula here: http://forums.getpaint.net/index.php?/topic/24361-font-size-to-page/?p=370416

Hi Kaloveah! Welcome to the forum! You're comparing word processors with an image editor. That's like comparing a mountain bike to a BMW. They do very different jobs. The problem here is that text is rendered as bitmaps (i.e. pixels) in an image. Not so with a word processor which stores them as encoded characters. Your screen probably has a screen resolution of 96 pixels per inch. Text in your image might look fine on the screen however printing at this very low density looks awful. You want to print at 300 dots per inch (DPI) for crisp clear edges. The workaround is to make your image (and text) three times the print size BEFORE YOU START. That's three times the print size when the image is viewed on the monitor at 100%. 96 x 3 = 288 pixels. When you print the large image at 1/3 of the size, the density of pixels is 288 per inch - close enough to 300 for clarity/quality.

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@RpD: Please open a new thread if you wish to revive this topic. It's been dead for 2 1/2 years. <closed>

It's a fact of life unfortunately. When you make an image smaller there are fewer pixels and therefore less detail. You can minimize the loss by reducing by a factor of two i.e. halve or quarter the original size to get your finished size. If your image is rectangluar, and you want a square result, crop it to square before reducing it's size. The cropping should also result in the image being an even multiple of the finished size. Example: you want to reduce an 1600x1200 pixel image to 128x128 pixels. 1. crop the image to a square 1024x1024 (8x the finished size). 2. reduce the size by a factor of 8 (1024/8=128). 3. run Sharpen at amount of 1 or 2. 4. save it as a png.

The short answer is 'No". If you would like to know the reason, check out my reply in the thread Daniels has linked to.

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Hi Unlikely! Welcome I'm an ebook author too. I bet your cover will have several different font sizes and colors for the text. right? I recommend you put each bit of text on its own layer. Title, subtitle, author etc..., each change in text style gets its own layer. This makes positioning the separate elements easy becasue they can be moved independently of each other. Don't be frightened of size. Amazon now recommend a cover 1600x1000 pixels. I would work on a canvas twice this size. Once finished, save a working copy as a PDN, flatten the image, resize it to half size and use Save As... to save it as a PNG or JPG.

Thanks barbieq25! I've uploaded a PDF of the tutorial for users to download. I'll upload the photos to the tutorial above over the next few days.

RE: Missing images of this tutorial. The author of this tutorial hasn't been around the forum for quite some time. Shame really Sarkut was an excellent artist and added a great deal of value around here. Until the tutorial is recompiled you'll just have to work through the text that remains. If anyone has this tutorial stored offline - please contact me via PM so we can work to restore it.

The author of that tutorial hasn't been around the forum for quite some time. Shame really Sarkut was an excellent artist and added a great deal of value around here. Until the tutorial is recompiled (any takers? PM me) you'll just have to work through the text that remains. If anyone has the tutorial stored offline - please contact me via PM.

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Saving your images as JPG loses fidelity each time you save it. PNG is a lossless format so the fidelity is preserved 100% between saves. JPG might be the most common format - but this is no excuse to use it exclusively. Remember you can't animate a JPG, and you can't preserve quality or the layer structure with the JPG format. Simple images such as web banners and buttons are often considerably smaller files when saved as PNG. Changing the format - no. The default is PNG for single layered images (PDN for multi-layered images) so you do not lose quality when you save using the default settings. If you choose to change the setting you accept the loss of quality - and potentially the layer structure.

Please learn to capitalize and punctuate correctly. Your post is not making any sense and is making my eyes bleed. When you have done so, please feel free to ask your question again - in the correct section of this forum next time. NOT in the tutorials section - it's for TUTORIALS! <Moved to Paint.NET Discussion & Questions and CLOSED>

NinjaManDan21 - A vertical sig is probably not practical, but that's not the criteria here. I like that you've stepped outside the box a little with the orientation. It has instant appeal and keeps drawing my eye back to it - kind of like a story I want to find out more about. Xzerizon - Clean. Fresh. Elegant. It pops out at you when you first see it. Perhaps a tiny bit cramped width wise, but otherwise an outstanding sig. It's tough to make a decision on this one.... Would like to give both a point. Eventually decided that Xzerizon (Zay-Re-Zon?) gets the point. NMD21 - 0 Xzerizon - 2

@Minners: Please consider reposting that in the tutorial section! Nice use of CH&S!

Here's a tutorial: http://forums.getpaint.net/index.php?/topic/19292-digital-camouflage/

Glad I could help. Welcome to the forum Julie!

You've posted this in the tutorials section. I'll move it to the Paint.NET Discussion & Questions section for you. The zoom you are using is altering the view on your monitor, not the actual image. Try using Image > Resize and setting the amount to 200%. Next you may need to crop the image to the area you want. Use the rectangle select tool to select the area you want to keep and press Ctrl + Shift + X. File > Save As...