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No idea. Sorry. Changing your Start Button is not the sort of question covered in this forum. Try Google or Bing.

Read posts numbered #65 to #68 above. @dpy is aware of the 64 character limitation and is actively canvasing for a more appropriate (larger) number of characters. I'm sure he will have an update out quite soon that will allow more characters to be used. Patience.....

Really?? I've been labouring under the illusion that the Clouds effect was based on @Sepcot's Clouds Plugin. My mistake

Found this: And this: So it looks like you need to save as an 8-bit BMP, and make the top left pixel the color you wish to be transparent. BUT it doesn't look like all applications support the transarency in BMPs (like FireFox). Q: Why BMP and not ICO file format? We have a plugin that does the ICO format Icon, Cursor & Animated Cursor Format

Hi GalaxiBoy, welcome to the forum! You'll see that I've edited your post just a little. In accordance with Rule #29 I've replaced your images with clickable links. BoltBait has steered you to the Pleasantville effect, which is a great place to start. However, if you're after a quick fix - then there is a plugin which automates the process described in the tutorial: Extract Color v1.0.

Hey, nice spaceship floorplan. Makes me want to play! Of course you're going to need more guns if you want to defeat the Space Nazi's with flame whips....., (thanks to Frontcannon: http://forums.getpaint.net/index.php?/topic/21035-what-should-i-draw-in-pdn/ )

Things you can try: 1. Reduce the number of installed fonts. 2. Reduce the number of plugins you load 3. Reduce the size (dimensions) of your image 4. Reduce the number of layers in your image 5. Upgrade your memory - more is better 6. A 64-bit version of Windows 7 7. Make sure you have plenty of hard drive space.

Yes he does. But the suggestion must fit in with the plan of where Rick is taking PDN (read the blog). E.G Several third party plugins have been included as PDN effects - the 'Clouds' effect immediately springs to mind. Suggestions like porting PDN to Linux are rejected.

To rename your thread, click on the EDIT button immediately under your post. Then click on the button USE FULL EDITOR. The full editor has a text box containing your post title. Click in that box and overtype the existing title (losing the bits that Rick mentioned).

http://www.getpaint.net/doc/latest/MagicWand.html Surely that is a reasonably simple explanation? Press F1 in Paint.net to be taken to these online help files. There you will find many helpful guides to the tools and effects that Paint.net has.

I don't mind clipping the number of characters back even more. I'm not at my personal computer at this time so I don't recall if there is an option to 'repeat' the given text ("Hello" > "HelloHelloHello...."). Would this be an option? The bold above line is 172 characters including spaces, surely 256 would be enough?

GIFs are limited to a palette of 256 colors. Using a gradient in your image sucks up a lot of the palette space because there are a lot of fine shades of the primary colors used. I suspect that you're reaching the limit of the palette and the dithering you're seeing is the GIF way of saying "there was more color info here, but I ran out of space to store it." The palette limitation is one of the reasons GIF's are usually very simple images. Try using PNG - they should not have this problem.

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PNG is a lossless format, so when you save you don't lose any data. JPEG is a lossy format, so if you save an image you lose data. If you cannot view a png file properly then it's time you upgraded your computer. The PNG format has been gaining currency and is now the de facto standard for the internet. Save yourself a template in the JPEG format. Double click on it to open it. Save will retain the original filename, Save As..., will default to the original file type (*.jpg)

1. if you open your original *.gif in your browser, is the animation showing? 2. Have you followed all the steps outlined above? If you're done everything correctly and it's still not working, try uploading your image here so we can have a look.

First attempt: 1. Adjustments > Black and White 2. Effects > Color > Color to Alpha (Strength around 136 - everything else at defaults) Second attempt: 1. Effects > Artistic > Ink Sketch (Ink outline = 28, Coloring = 36 ( a nice option if you wish to retain some color information) Try those and madJik's suggeston and see if we're getting close with any.

Give me a few hours and I'll see if I can come up with a simple, repeatable method of isolating the pattern. At first impression I'd be thinking of using the Isolate Lineart plugin on a greyscale version of the image.

Hi Ed, Welcome to the forum! Are we talking about "peggy" squares (crochet in wool) or embroidery (fancy stitching on a backing fabric)? A pic of the square and one of a sample pattern would help us figure out if there is an easy transition from one to the other.

RE: cats/skinning/ways. Quite so Glad you got it sorted to your satisfaction. Your rounded gradient frame looks rather nice!

I suggest you take this to a an XP/Windows technical forum. It's really beyond my expertise to try and troubleshoot your PC problems over the internet. Sorry I couldn't help.

A more basic plugin might be Mike Ryan's Brightness/Darkness to Alpha. What it does is change the dark bits of the first image to alpha (i.e. transparency). Then when you overlay the image onto a new background, the background will show past the transparent bits. Tanels plugin is a little more complex (as you found).

This issue with your computer seems to be unrelated specifically to Paint.net. Try Googling "msiexec.exe has encountered a problem" and see what it comes up with.

Tis part of KrisVDM's Plugin Pack, which is why it doesn't have an entry all to itself

Interesting, it says VisualStudio8 setup error. Read this: http://forums.getpai...o-paintnet-351/ 1. Was VS open when you tried to install a] Paint.Net b] .NET 3.5? 2. Is your copy of VS 2008 fully patched and up to date? (see post #5)

Did you do #3 in the above list?