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What I said first: Copy/paste the template layer into the new picture as a separate layer and use the Wand to recreate the selection.

If you save as .jpg filetype the transparent part will be filled in with white. Save as PNG. The checkerboard will only show in Paint.NET or another editing program that uses it to indicate transparency. It isn't part of the image. If you want to capture the appearance of the actual lasso selection border as part of the image you'll probably have to make a screenshot of the image with the selection active. http://www.take-a-screenshot.org/

The gray-and-white checkerboard is how transparency is indicated in Paint.NET.

Killer Rob, Make a new (transparent) layer, fill the selection with any solid color. Use the new layer as a template to recreate the selection with the Magic Wand, at will.

paul_nicholls, This may be what you are looking for: Panelling Effect Plugin (ymd:080410) MadJik' all plugins

This one shows PNG transparency as white against a white background. http://download.live.com/photogallery XnView shows transparency against a gray background. http://www.xnview.com/en/index.html

Yeah. Irfanview does that.

Take the original logo and apply: Effects > Stylize > Outline then Adjustments > Black and White next Duplicate the layer a few times with upper layers set to Multiply mode, until the lines are fully black. Merge layers. Apply Grim Color Reaper plugin, set to white. You should now have a black on alpha image. Smudge with a soft brush at 25% tolerance. Adjustments > Invert Colors This gives the smokey white on alpha look.

No. One layer is correct. Whatever other program that displays it as solid black has problems rendering PNG transparency correctly. What program is that?

Is the PNG totally black if re-opened in Paint.NET?

alligoodw, The latest version of Feather Object is available here: http://spreadpaint.net/2010/03/exclusiv ... comment-46 Apply it to a cut-out object surrounded by transparency. Be sure that there is no selection active. (Press Ctrl + D first, to be certain.)

That does help clarify the kind of smoke look you're going for. ==================================== Google search for: Photoshop smoke brushes. abrViewer (To extract the brushes) If something like this is suitable to blend with the smoke brushes, let me know. http://img339.imageshack.us/img339/7301/smokeylogo01.png

You may want to play with the idea of what I've done with layers 25 and 31. Duplicated, applied a transparent radial gradient, and renamed, 25A 25B 31A 31B. By adjusting the Opacity slider in Layer Properties of 25B and 31B, you can allow some translucency in the upper/outer part of the smoke plumes. If you want to do this on the right-side smoke plume will probably need to soften-up/smokify the bottom part of the logo to blend with the rest. http://s000.tinyupload.com/index.php?fi ... 5592947894

Magic Wand select the parts that you want to be transparent, then press Delete on your keyboard. With Paint.NET you actually make the parts transparent that you want to be transparent. Transparency is represented by the gray-and-white checkerboard.

I'd like to take a look at the .pdn. You can upload here, and post a download link, if you like. http://s000.tinyupload.com/index.php

Glad to help.

Smudging and blurring come to mind.

IAO, Add what is shown in red. http://img175.imageshack.us/img175/3775/iaopng01.png

If it's just a color you want to apply, use the ColorPicker tool, then the Paintbrush tool. Or, make a selection of the background and copy/paste it over what you want to cover.

Griser12, There's this: Tube Effect

Frontcannon, Unfortunately, the file is a PNG file with a .pdn extension. So, only the one layer. It's identical to the PNG at the ImageShack link. If you change the extension from .pdn to .png, you can view it as a PNG.

eighteeneleven, To avoid this, using your example: Start coloring over the apple, and before the unwanted color starts to appear, let the mouse-button up momentarily. The distance between the anchor point and the stamp point is the maximum distance you can go without letting the mouse-button up in this particular example.

Once at his website use either of the two lower blue buttons. The top two (Mediafire) don't work.

Can you scan it into your PC, open the file with Paint.NET, edit, save, then print out from your PC? Will that make it print to scale?

I suppose that I could feel very superior if I failed to remember all of the times in the past I've been puzzled by problems that were only too obvious once pointed out to me.