indieman

thanks for all the help. Just went to oldversion.com and downloaded an early version of paint.net which works fine. (This must be the version I used at college which is so much easier and better than the current version) I think that proves there's an incompatibility issue between the current paint.net and at least one version of Vista (mine) and that's a shame. thanks again

can't take a screenshot with vista, just tried it, got a black screen and had to do a system restore to yesterday, so made the whole situation worse. thanks

i don't have a sniping tool on vita unfortunately.....what do you think is preventing adding a layer?

This sounds very stupid, but I can't see how to 'add a layer' - when I click on 'add a layer' nothing happens(!) Any ideas? Is there a compatibility problem with Windows Vista or something? Any advice is much appreciated. And no, I'm not a newbie to Paint.net. I've created several posters using multiple layers before so I know the proceedure, however it seems to have stopped offering the 'add a layer' fascility. Very odd! I should add that in the layer box (for layer 1), there is a small orange star on the top left of the box. What does that mean? thanks