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Zooming: That's normal behavior - the tool on reaching the visible edge scrolls the expanded canvas so the hidden part is revealed. If you don't like this you can stop just shy of the visible edge and hold the spacebar down - this turns the current tool into a pan tool. Pixel Grid shows the outline of pixels when the zoom is 200% or higher. The pixels don't change, but the grid does in order to reveal the pixel margins without completely obliterating the image. Try it at a higher zoom and all should become clear.

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Hi there Ben! Welcome to the forum. 1. Type your text on its own layer. 2. Press Ctrl + A (Select All - i.e. the whole layer) 3. Press M (Move tool ) 4. Right click + hold button down, move the mouse. You've just learned how to rotate a layer Dpy has also made a series of plugins that allow text to be rendered in different shapes & rotations. You can find them here: Dpy's Plugins. p.s. you might find the Paint.NET online documentation helpful - press F1 in Paint.NET to access these documents.

Glad I could help. Oh and welcome to the forum!

This is a good question, so I'm going to take some time replying. Most of the time, resolutions are referred to in inches, so I'm going to do a quick conversion of your image sizes: 1300mm x 2500mm = 51.2in x 98.4in That was easy! We'll store this information for use a bit later in this post. File formats: You have .pdf .jpg and .zip to choose from. Zip is not a file format - it's a compression system. You use it to squeeze the excess out of a file or group of files. If your PDF or JPG is too large, you could compress it by zipping. That leaves PDF and JPG. A quick non-scientific trial revealed that the JPG version of a random photo was in fact larger than a PDF created using the Paint.NET PDF plugin (found here: Im(age)PDF). 1280 x 960 pixels = 928.4kb PDF but was 1.1mb as a JPG at 100%. Really, there is only 10% in it, but the JPG could easily be reduced by dialing down the save quality. That means you can use either file type (JPG is probably easier). When preparing images for print its recommended to work as large as possible. Unfortunately in your case this will not be possible. We got your image size in inches earlier, let's look at how that translates into pixels at various print resolutions (DPI): 51.2in x 98.4in @ 100DPI = 5120px x 9840px 51.2in x 98.4in @ 200DPI = 10240px x 19680px 51.2in x 98.4in @ 300DPI = 15360px x 29520px That's an awful lot of pixels even at the low resolution! If you try filling the smallest canvas with random images & save it as a JPG you could get a file 50mb in size! In my demo trial I had to drop the quality slider down to 59% to get an image 5120px x 9840px down to 8mb. Zipping afterwards saved me another 2mb, so I could have made the quality a bit higher - maybe 75%. So here's the rub: If you use a goodly sized canvas, you'll have to lose a lot of quality in order to get it down to 8mb. If you start with a smaller canvas, the jpg quality can be proportionately higher in order to still come in under 8mb. At half the size I could save the image at 96% quality to get 7.9mb. Zipping the final JPG will save you more size. If it was me, I'd use the half sized canvas 2560px x 4920px, save work-in-progress files as PDN, then when finished save it as a JPG with the quality wound up as high as the filesize will allow - then ZIP it.

Blend modes are like the filling in your sandwich (the layers are slices of bread). It's the filling that can change your experience of the sandwich. Slightly less weirdly, Blend modes control how the layers interact. You can find more specific information on Blend modes in the Paint.NET documentation, specifically: http://www.getpaint.net/doc/latest/BlendModes.html

Not all RAW formats are the same . Different camera manufacturers have different ideas about the format. Try another of the RAW plugins.

Welcome firma! The Pictorium is not the place to be posting this question. I'll move it to the Paint.NET Discussion & Questions section for you. Sounds to me like you would benefit from this tutorial:

Paint.NET 4.0 introduces drag & drop for reordering layers. This means you can quickly drag a layer above a temporary layer with a solid color background to see what it has on it. I can't help but think you're doing it the hard way. If you used the layer name to accurately describe the contents of the layer you wouldn't have to think about what the layer contains:

Use File | Save As.... to specify a new directory. If you're sure that the directory exists then I'd be doing some scanning to see if your HD is about to fail.

I did this very quickly with the lasso select tool If you were patient you could use the eraser to gradually remove the excess. A better option is to use Alpha Mask as detailed in the second of these threads on the much same subject: http://forums.getpaint.net/index.php?/topic/23559- http://forums.getpaint.net/index.php?/topic/22801- (see post #12 in particular)

...and EACH time you resave as a JPG you lose more quality. Just like a photocopy of a photocopy of a photocopy...... Save yourself the angst and use PNG (it's lossless) except when final image size is very important (like a web image).

Because the only electronic device that you own that uses DPI is your printer. All your screens use 96PPI. As I pointed out in a previous post this equates to an image that is 8.59 inches x 11.72 inches (825/96=8.59 and 1125/96=11.718). Close to an A4 page yes?

Primary = White. Secondary = Black. Paint Bucket + Right click. Text Tool (Arial @ 12pt). Type. Zoom 800%. Prnt Scrn, Ctrl + Shift + V. Crop to size: NB: Spelling error - oops! As I said, it's a lot less work to just retype it.

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You get my vote, however I don't have the power to promote you. Pyrochild - he hath the POWER! I'll PM him....

You're earning it one post at a time. I'm keeping my eye on you...

Don't give up! I'll do some editing to ease this tense little standoff. <done> I'll be monitoring this thread more closely from now on. Please read the rules before posting an entry. Invalid entries will be removed.

Quite so. Therefore this thread will be moved to the Paint.NET Discussion & questions section. @Lis16: Is it absolutely essential you have that text? I'm thinking it would be less work to recreate it from scratch. You could try using the Text tool to type in the text on a new layer (Antialiasing disabled will make it look chunky, choose a font that looks similar). Then try applying the pixelate effect (Effects | Distort | Pixelate). <moved>

I'm glad you got it sorted out Santi

Are you sure? The palette you posted looks VERY similar to the default palette. Try making the first three or four colors the same in the palette file (edit with a text editor). I.e. instead of: ; se pondrán en blanco (FFFFFFFF). Si hay más, los colores adicionales se ignorarán. FF000000 FF404040 FFFF0000 FFFF6A00 FFFFD800 FFB6FF00 FF4CFF00 Try: ; se pondrán en blanco (FFFFFFFF). Si hay más, los colores adicionales se ignorarán. FF000000 FF000000 FF000000 FF000000 FF404040 FFFF0000 FFFF6A00 FFFFD800 FFB6FF00 FF4CFF00

In answer to B: You're mixing your information as to how they apply to the medium used. Screen resolutions are generally quoted at 96DPI (Dots Per Inch). DPI is a piece of misinformation here because screens don't do dots, they do pixels. Better to refer to screens as having 96PPI (Pixels Per Inch). This is not adjustable*. The only resolution your screen can show is 96PPI*. Everything else you can fool in in to showing is just scaling* * I'm not going to quibble - this is a gross generalization but probably quite valid for this discussion. Printers do dots. It is correct to refer to a print resolution as 300DPI. Printers can cram many dots into an inch (600DPI), or just a few (50DPI). Now that we have that clarified, lets look at your two images. #1 825 pixels x 1125 pixels. If you were to view it at 1:1 on a 96PPI monitor, it would appear to be 8.59inches x 11.72inches (825/96=8.59 and 1125/96=11.718). If you were to print this at 300 dpi it would be 2.75INCHES x 3.75INCHES (not cm as you stated). #2 213 pixels x 312 pixels. If you were to view it at 1:1 on a 96PPI monitor, it would appear to be 2.21inches x 3.25inches (213/96=2.218 and 312/96=3.25). If you were to print this at 300 dpi it would be 0.71inches x 1.04inches. The fact that you quote these images as having a DPI is incorrect. They don't. They have a size in pixels. That is what Paint.NET shows, pixels, at 96PPI at 100% view size. If you wish your screen size to match your print size then the cheap option is to adjust your printer to 96DPI. This will match your screen size of 96PPI and all will be well. Actually not, because things look awful when printed at this low resolution. Better to allow for the printing resolution and make your image the print size (inches) x the resolution (300DPI) = pixels size.

Quite correct. The 54 fill patterns are predefined, so there is no option to modify them at all.

I can feel an new award forming: "Shameless Self Promotion" (I'm guilty for references to the Plugin Index - WHICH YOU CAN FIND HERE: Plugin Index by EER)

Paint.NET reloads the last palette you used - even if you didn't save it. I suspect that you're not seeing the changes because the palette you're loading is exactly the same as the one already present. When you select an installed palette (by clicking the menu name), the only thing that changes are the colors in the palette swatch. Can you try loading the default palette (option in the palette menu) then loading your custom palette? I suspect that you will see the changes between the two.