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Try following these steps exactly: 1) Open a new file in Paint.NET. In the menu at the top - Edit > Select All ----------------------- Edit > Erase Selection You should now have one transparent (alpha) layer. ======================================== 2) This is important! In the top-right corner of the Layers window, click the red icon with the X inside it. This closes the Layers window. ======================================== 3) In the Tools window, click the Line/Curve tool icon. Set brush size to 20. Draw a vertical line in the left part of the canvas, similar to your previous screenshot. Make a Rectangular Selection around the line. ========================================= 4) Menu: Edit > Copy --------------------- Edit > Paste in to New Layer ========================================= 5) The Move Selected Pixels tool is automatically in effect. Move the selected pixels to the side with the mouse.

In the Colors window, click on - More >> Colors Window Should read - Transparency - Alpha to 0 Should read - change Primary color to white.

Reset the anchor point - Ctrl, left-click. Then begin clone-stamping relative to the new anchor point. http://www.getpaint.net/doc/latest/en/CloneStamp.html

Press Esc on the keyboard. Click the Text tool icon in the Tools window. Click on the canvas where you want to start typing again. ========================================= If one isn't using Simon Brown's plugin, then ordinarily, text is editable only as image (pixels) once it has been finalized.

ahmadyk23, Please try the following and report back whether it works or not. Paste the template into a file with an 8" X 10" canvas. Print at the 8x10 in. setting.

chkdsk with /f parameter sfc /scannow

Two other options: Threshold Multi-Threshold

Yeah. Just click on them in the Layers window.

Could you post one of the transparent PNGs w/ black background here? ========================================================== Also, if you open one of these again in Paint.NET, is the background black or does the gray-and-white checkerboard show?

Looking at the Layers window, there's no image in Layer 3. It's all transparent.

Look down at the status bar, Bounding Rectangle Size.

Try changing to Antialiasing Disabled.

Control Panel > Programs > Turn Windows Programs on or off If there is no checkmark at XPS Viewer, add checkmark, reboot, and try install of Paint.NET again. http://a.imageshack.us/img228/8373/xpsviewer01.png

Don't change the layer opacity. No. Instead paste into new layer and move. Paste into new layer: Ctrl+Shift V ============================================= Avoid pasting into the background layer. ============================================= If you start with your background layer, make a new layer and draw on the new layer, then you don't really need to copy/paste at all. Simply leave the drawing on its own layer and position it using the Move Selected Pixels tool.

Draw on a transparent layer. Make a selection. Copy. Paste into new layer. Ctrl+Shift V Move the selection where you want it to be on its own layer. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- This should work.

What kind of fixing do the photos need?

Re: Screenshots I use Gadwin PrintScreen 4.3 freeware. http://www.gadwin.com/download/ It can be configured easily to save as PNG and will auto-save/auto-name by hitting Enter twice after taking the screenshot.

Updated version. http://forums.getpaint.net/index.php?showtopic=17010

RaefWolfe definitely wants it.

This particular tutorial may have disappeared when the Legacy Tutorials forum was done away with.

Once you have cut-out the image of the girl, position a new layer underneath and fill it with black, using the Paintbucket tool. <BR>

Steps with pictures: http://a.imageshack.us/img413/7353/ts01.png http://a.imageshack.us/img713/7421/ts02.png http://a.imageshack.us/img225/8338/ts03.png Once you get the basics, you can add more effects if you want to. http://a.imageshack.us/img441/1271/ts04.png

It will definitely make things easier to work with an oversize image and resize down as a final step. Magic Wand: Hold the Shift key down and click one of the letters once. This selects all of the text. Gradient tool: In the toolbar in the top header choose Radial gradient. Click in the center of the text and drag out past the ends. Press Esc to deselect.