[I'm an idiot, help!]

once again, THANK YOU EER, Yellow, Mntman, et al-

This really saved me. Bolt, you are so right- never work with originals. I was growing tired and lazy as I was converting 30+ files to upload to my website. Dumb!

LOL, I've now resaved it in about a million places.

YOU guys rock, this is a great community. I really love learning Paint.net. I'm a mom that doesn't get a chance to have many creative outlets, and this is nice. TGIAlmostFriday

[I'm an idiot, help!]

thanks, I'm desperate.

If you give me some search terms on what to look for, I will look too.

Thanks Mountnman!

[I'm an idiot, help!]

Hi guys.

I've been bringing up an image that is a designless towel, and I import the layer with a design on it. Flatten, etc.

Well I saved my original designless towel with a design by accident.

I really don't want to go back and redo and empty towel. I saved, closed too- so it seems I can't undo or delete the imported layer.

How can I delete the firefly and get my orginal image back without a big checkered space gone?

THANKSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS, please tell me there is a way!!!

(attached is the towel with design, I need the design gone without altering the towel)

I'm an idiot and should have had a few saved various places, but of course, no I didn't.

[Blending imported object bckground]

See how the towel has folds and ripples in it? These show up in your image as grey gradients. The label is flat and appears to be laid over the towel.

My suggestion is to try matching the folds and ripples in the towel to the pink square. To do this, try using the Displacement and Alpha plugin.

Thank you for the genius suggestion. Its very subtle the displacement, but I think I added it ok. I watched the video on how to use.

See attached. Any other suggestions on how to improve this photo, are always welcome!

I think the bottom of the towel needs more work in feather and AA. Also need to brighten up the black flower.

[Differing Backgrounds]

Mountnman, that link appears to be broken.

So my original towel needs more help, you think?

[Blending imported object bckground]

Hi ya...

I try to shoot all my pics same light, etc. I want to paste all my designs on this uniform towel (no background)

As you can see the square pasted on with basketball is on the same cloth but looks unmatched.

Any suggestions on how I could blend/edit it in with the towel, keeping basketball & Kyle the same? Or should I try doing something else?

See attached. Loving learning this software : ) Thanks in advance for any suggestions!

[Differing Backgrounds]

Thanks, mountnman!

I did exactly what you said on the red background. I was able to get it almost looking perfect.

Next obstacle I'm having.

I try to shoot all my pics same light, etc. I want to paste all my designs on this uniform towel (no background)

As you can see the square pasted on with basketball is on the same cloth but looks unmatched.

Any suggestions on how I could blend/edit it in with the towel, keeping basketball & Kyle the same?

See attached. Thanks for your post.

[Differing Backgrounds]

I have attached the three different images in hopes to find direction...

Finalheart2 is what I want all my images to look like, with the exception of a different background and design on the towel. Rosebudbg is the background I want to edit (brightness, blur) and move the towel from heart2 over on this background. I also want to move over the redflower rosebud design over top the heart so it matches the new background.

Basically I want all my images to look exactly the same (with towel from Heart2) but different backgrounds & monogrammed designed. So they look uniform. I tried shooting all my images separately with correlating backgrounds, but they all look different=unprofessional in my mind.

I am horrible with the tolerance wand, I'm imagining to be able to select the towel and paste on new layer background. Tried erasing too.

Can anyone give me a step by step to achieve it?

I'm a newbie and have NOT been able to find the right recipe for my desired outcome! Thanks a bunch!!!!

[Help please- Searching for a Tutorial]

Found this rather good tutorial: http://forums.getpaint.net/index.php?/topic/15956-create-a-professional-looking-product-advertisment-mockup/

For reference, bookmark this link http://searchpaint.net/ it might assist you to find info related to Paint.net.

Hi, just wanted to get back with one I found outside of the forum. I liked it, and she uses photoshop, but Paint.net has all of these functions. Yeah!

http://madeinlowell.blogspot.com/2010/06/editing-product-photos.html

[Help please- Searching for a Tutorial]

Hi there-

I am looking for a good tutorial on how to make an ordinary product photo look professional. I'm selling handmade baby items on a website.

(shot with my mediocre camera with some lighting)

I would love to use Paint.net to jazz it up and make it look like I paid big bucks for a photographer to shoot my items.

Any info is appreciated!

Thanks in advance!

[Question, how can I make a clip art image look handpainted?]

I am looking to take a simple clip art images (such as below) and make it look as though its been painted by an artist, with some brush strokes in its texture. Very subtle, but make it look like its been painted and not a graphic art image.

Are there any techniques or plugins to do this, and how is done?

Thanks in advance to anyone who could suggest something!