renates

Thank you so much, Sarkut - that was it. Don't know how it got to be set to Subtract, but that is what the problem was. I really appreciate your help, I can finally get back to work now ;-)

I'm not sure what you mean by no longer animated, but the only way to get the coloured area is 'select all', the other selection tools are just drawing an outline with no colour change and it disappears as soon as the mouse button is released. The crop to selection button is greyed out and can't be clicked.

I just upgraded to Paint.NET v3.5.6 (Final Release build 3.56.3972.42619) (i'm running Vista). Now none of the selection tools work. They outline but as soon as I release the mouse button, the outline disappears. This is happening with the rectangle, the lasso and the ellipse. I tried reinstalling, I tried restarting and using various images with or without layers and it never works.

i've been using paint.net for a few months now. fabulous program! Is there a way to set a default save and open directory? I am almost always working in a way that goes opposite to what the program does. i open files out of a 'raw photos' directory, adjust them and save them to a 'web photos' directory. so every time i open or save a file, the default location is in the wrong place 9sorry about the lack of caps - got another keyboard problem, those seed beads get everywhere. thanks renate