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If you want to enlarge your image, use Image - Canvas Size. (open your existing banner first) Decide where you want your current banner anchored (center, left etc), Make sure Maintain Aspect Ratio is NOT ticked. Then enter the new diamensions. White canvas will appear around you existing image, ready for you to fill as you like.

I'm new to pdn so I can only tell you how I would do it, there is probably a better, faster way. I would make eack letter seperately. Method 1 Open the photo for letter J (background layer). On a new layer type the J in a big thick black font. Position it over the photo where you would want the finished letter. Use magic wand (global setting) and click outside the letter to select the background. Select the photo layer, press delete. Then delete the letter layer. You now have the photo letter on a clear background to use as you wish. Method 2 For this method you would need an alpha mask plugin but you will get a smoother result. Open the photo for letter J (background layer). On a new layer type the J in a big thick WHITE font. Position it over the photo where you would want the finished letter. Select the whole of the background layer (the photo). Fill it with black. Save letter as a gif file (you should have a white letter on a black background). Reopen the photo. Then go effects, object, alpha mask. Load the letter file and it automatically removes the background from the photo. Hope this helps

Great tutorial Madjik. I combined it with some tiles I was making and came up with this. Told you even a total noob like me could do it. :wink:

Hi You must paste to a new layer (ctrl-shift-v). (or edit - paste into new layer) Hope this helps po.

For a design I am creating I need selection circles of a fixed size. Is it possible to extend this feature to circle selection?

KillerK, you obviously like lines and angles (are you a mathmatical person?). Some comments on your gaming sig. The individual elements are good, but I am not blown away by the composition. You don't have to fill in every spot, 'white space' is good (or in this case blue strippy space). There is a lot of text, but as it is all the same font your eye doesn't know where to go. You will get a better look if you use a contrasting font for A Eu Clan Cg Clan. But your sig is way better than my non-existant one. :wink:

how do you make a Transparent Background ? Just select the area you want transparent (magic wand?) and press delete. Or start with a transparent workspace, ctrl A then del

Very nice, but I would have to say, if a woman who loved me looked at me like that I would be a bit worried. Which one is love and which one is hate? :?

If you wanted say lots of trees, you can always create one (with transparent background), make multiple duplicates of the layer, then place the duplicates where you want them.

Hey, I had no idea you could do that. - Tip of the week, thanks!

Hey Roadkill Love your orb, just beautiful. Just use the move selection tool, there is no 'back' button. Visibility is in the layers box. You can turn a layer's visibility off and on.

This is great fun. I didn't know animation was so easy. Here is my best effort. Thanks for the tut.

Scripts are just like macros. A series of commands done automatically. In pdn you have to do it manually (unless you know programming) but the effects look pretty basic. Play around with the adjustments tools like K I N G said, hue is a good place to start if you don't understand curves.

Very nice I love your Panda, simple but very effective.

Hi Martel The top layer of text is unchanged (or embossed if you prefer), the underneath layers are blured - but turn off selection before you blur. This should solve your problem.

Here is my take on the tutorial. Didn't get the shading right (bottom of g should be the only bit touching the shadow) but not bad for a first effort. There are supposed to be two light sources and a depth to the glass. I will put it in the work in progress, and when I know a bit more I'll have another go. Great tut for beginners - I think it should be stickied. BTW, what is the best way to skew? I used oblique, was that right?

My glow was just done with a couple of duplicate layers of text. Apply a moderate gausian blur to the bottom layer, and a smaller gausian to the next layer etc until you get the glow effect you are after. Top layer is the unaltered text. If you want to play with colours, remember to combine the blurred layers before changing their hue.

Do you mean like this?

Here is the description of this forum - Newbie Playground Tutorials that describe the use of core features of Paint.NET such as tools, effects, and adjustments. No plugins should be used in any of these tutorials. Perfect for the wet-behind-the-ear newcomer! Don't blame me, I didn't write the rules. As to why, I can only guess that this forum is for new people to learn the basics of the program. There are plenty of forums for posting plug-in tuts and as a new user I can assure you that I have no problem nosying around in them as well. By the way, I love your hand drawings, they are brilliant.

From my reading of the rules, plugins like alpha masking aren't allowed in the newbie playground. I hope to get time to try this tut in the near future, it looks excellent.

No Problem I appreciate the effort. And as my gran said, hard work is good for the soul.

Thanks for the tip. I know I can either shift the mask or the image prior to applying it, what I was hoping for was a way to fine tune the mask position as I applied it. I suppose I will have to do it the long way. Open the mask as a layer on the image, adjust the positioning, delete the image, save the mask, then re-open the image and apply the mask. Sound about right?

I have had a good search through old posts on using alpha masks but I think I am making an error somewhere. The posts I have read say it is a lossless method of masking, but I have found that I need to have the layer to be masked selected and import the mask to that layer to use it correctly. This means I can't move, resize or remove the mask. What am I missing?

Don't forget, original colour (the one you want to replace) must be the secondary colour for 'colour replace' to work properly. If you want to replace all of a colour, global paint is still faster.