verybadcat

Wow! Didn't realize about the pencil. That's great if I want to go pixel by pixel. But what if I want a "pencil" that is many pixels wide? I.e, draw a circle centered at the center of a pixel. I couldn't find the antialiasing setting. Where is it? Thanks for your help.

Perhaps I explained poorly. Right now, if I am working with a zoomed in image, one pixel in the image I am drawing corresponds to many pixels on my screen. And paint.net <i>does</i> behave differently depending on where in that region I click. In order to explain, I need a definition. Since my image is zoomed in, one pixel of the image corresponds to a region of many pixels on my screen. Let's call this region the "pixel region." Suppose I am in paint.net with a brush width of 1. If I click on the right side of the pixel region, what happens is that the corresponding pixel in my image gets recolored to a color closer to the primary color. However, the pixel to its immediate right is also recolored somewhat. It does not go all the way to the primary color, but it does go part way there. And the further to the right in the pixel region I click, the more the color changes. It is difficult for me to click precisely in the center of the pixel region. I am wondering if there is any way to get paint.net to control for this.

Is it possible to force drawing commands to snap to the center of the nearest pixel? For example, if I want to paint, and I want my brush to always hit the center of a pixel. Also, the same question, but for corners -- i.e. if I want to force my brush to go to the place where four pixels meet. Thanks

How do I make an alpha channel icon with paint.net? This is for an iPhone tab bar icon. All the iPhone tab bar sees is the alpha channel. Color is irrelevant. Thanks.

I want to put italics into some of my text, just as in this message. I want to do this in a single insertion, so that the italicized text fits naturally in its correct place, without me having to adjust everything by hand. Is this possible?

Maybe I am just dense, but there are two problems I can't figure out the answer too after spending quite a bit of time with the help. 1) For some reason, the program seems to have decided not to show anything I do now. It's not doing it in white -- even if I try to put something over something that is already there, it doesn't show. 2) I can't for the life of me figure out how to select one object, such as a line, then drag an endpoint to move it . . . or, for another example, select text, then edit the text.

Yeah I looked at that, but I couldn't find the answers to any of my questions from the OP.

Is there a tutorial that shows how to do simple stuff? Stuff like moving an object I drew earlier; making it bigger or smaller; or moving my image without having that black and white checkered background appear?