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The idea is that you read it online.

If you need something to challenge you I will send you a PM later on.

I mistook your idea. The term 'Moderator' is forum specific - so I assumed this was to be a forum thing. Why not suggest this as a competition idea?

Where would 'Moderator Icons' be placed?

Pressing F4 is one alternative method of opening the Layer Properites dialog.

Liberkey does a portable version. From the FAQ:

I think we've derailed this thread long enough. I'm going to see if I can split the last few posts out into their own thread - dealing with the rep/like button. Wish me luck...

Use the 'Rep button. It may be small - but it gets the job done. You get 5 'reps' a day so feel free to hand them out @ pyrochild - is it possible to customize the buttons in IPBoard? (you can see where this is heading can't you...)

My advice when working on a new image is to periodically save it as a *.pdn. If you get into this habit then data loss becomes so much less of an issue. When the image is finished save it again as a *.pdn and then save it as a JPG or PNG or whatever. This gives you a source file to fall back on if you need to edit it (i.e. the *.pdn).

This has gone on long enough. <locked>

AWESOME! This is going to be a brilliant addition to my tool box. Thanks pyrochild!

Welcome to the forum & congratulations! 75 by 45 what? Inches? Centimeters?? If you mean pixels then get your photographer to supply the source images and not thumbnails. To print them as a 6x4 inch photo you should try to resize them down to around 1800 x 1200 pixels. At this size the print resolution would be 300DPI - good photo quality.

The dialog says you can undo the flattening much as Jim has described. However you needed to do that BEFORE you closed PDN and you also needed to save the image so the layers were preserved (as a *.pdn - like Jim said). Now that you have only saved the image in a flattened state and closed PDN there is no chance of recovering the individual layers. Moral of the story: Read the dialogs. They are there to help avoid data loss. You ignore them at your peril....

Effect Menu yes Rubbish! Don't confuse a brief reply with us being offhand. We have many tasks to complete and sometimes a brief reply is all we have time for. A book in this vein is due to be published later this month. Keep your eyes peeled.

Not quite. The whole article can be found here:

PNG is unlike the GIF transparency which only has one level of transparency (either a pixel is or it isn't transparent). PNGs support an entire alpha (transparency) channel. This means you get 256 levels of transparency along with the RGB information. Scaling: As I said in my previous post - make sure the image is a power-of-two multiple of the final image size. That way the image will resize as nicely as is possible. If you resize the image yourself the software driving the screen won't be at liberty to make any decisions on how the resizing should be applied.

Remove it. As Pdnnoob said above, you don't open a *.dll file. Read the instructions that have been linked to by both nitenurse79 and pdnnoob. These are the same instructions I linked you to in a private message.

The major drawback with TIFF is that there is a serious lack of support from modern browsers because it is such an old format. The format is therefore a poor choice for web graphics. TIFF is minimally supported in Paint.NET and the developer (Rick Brewster) has made it clear in numerous forum posts and blog entries that this situation is not about to change. Where possible the use of PNG is encouraged. You should also know that Paint.NET does not support 1-bit (monochrome) TIFF images (or layering or multiple images in TIFF files).

Your problem is that the site is not the legitimate Paint.NET site. Who knows what malware you have installed? Virus scan your system then scan for malware. You could have installed NASTY stuff! Remove the existing installation of Paint.NET. Download and install a fresh copy of Paint.NET from the legitimate site: http://www.getpaint.net/ The download link is in the top right hand corner - don't click on the ads or you'll be back where you started.

You mean 64 pixels by 112 pixels? That's a small screen! The preferred resize technique is to work with a canvas that is 200%, 400%, 800% or 1600% larger than you want. The idea is that you can resize down in one operation. Your incremental resizing is only going to introduce unwanted blurring as pixels are resampled again and again. 64 x 4 = 256 pixels and 112 x 4 = 448 pixels. If you work on a canvas that is 256 x 448pixels you can resize the image to 25% to get your final screen size. If your software can handle PNG format I'd recommend that. It has support for the Alpha channel (transparency). If you're really having trouble making images 'pop' on the screen try uploading one and let us see if we can find some more suggestions for you.

Your designs/creations are your own, so they are yours to do with as you please. There are no licencing issues from Paint.NET or from the forum tutorials. If your creation is a step-by-step reproduction of a tutorial it would be nice to credit the tutorial author - but not absolutely essential. The only problem you might encounter is if you used someone else's image (perhaps off the Internet).

Sounds like you know a bit about this midora. Knock us up a plugin would you Old Chap?

When released Paint.NET 4 will be for all of us Here's a tip for you. In Paint.NET press the F1 key to be taken to the online documentation. There are lots of introductory articles there.

1. Add a new layer by clicking the icon in the Layers Window :AddNewLayer: 2. Ensure the new layer has the focus (i.e. highlight) by clicking on its name in the Layers Window. 3. Click the Down icon :MoveLayerDown: in the Layers Window to move the layer down one place. There is also a Move Layer Up icon :MoveLayerUp: These buttons/icons work with any layer that is made active (step two) so you can move any layer up or down the stack. (In PDN 4.0 Rick has implemented drag and drop for layers. http://blog.getpaint.net/2012/04/08/new-features-for-paint-net-4-0/ Very cool!)

The answer is cutting edge CSS + HTML5. info: http://drublic.de/blog/effects-for-the-web/