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    A set of elementary tasks?

    in Paint.NET Discussion and Questions

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    The best way to get to know PDN is to do the tutorials. Also I found You Tube was a big help. There are numerous vids showing you how to use PDN. :D

    This is a very helpful suggestion. I've looked at a few of these now and have two questions. First, they clips are so indistinct that I cannot make out with any certainty what is being done. How can I make the clips more distinct? I see there is a button for "high quality," but when I click on it, nothing seems to happen.

    Second, are these clips categorized anywhere or has anyone identified those which are really helpful? They seem to be sort of all in a heap as they are.

    A set of elementary tasks?

    in Paint.NET Discussion and Questions

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    Maybe Paint.NET is just not the right software for me?? For the moment, I just want to do quite simple things.

    - As mentioned, I'd like to create a transparent gif.

    - I'd like to take someone else's gif or jpeg and: change its color; change its size; superimpose text on it.

    Please help me. I really put in a lot of time yesterday in downloading not only the program but also the necessary Windows 3.5 requirements; and in reviewing a lot of the documentation. So far I have not realized a single gain out of all that work. If I could just get going, I could start to teach myself. For the moment, though, I just sit here at a complete loss.

    A set of elementary tasks?

    in Paint.NET Discussion and Questions

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    Hello,

    I'm brand new here, having just downloaded Paint.NET yesterday. Before I ask my probably quite obvious and dumb questions, let me just say that: (1) I did read the forum rules; (2) I have reviewed quite a lot of the documentation; and (3) I'm brand new here.

    I have a couple of specific questions, which I'll get to in a moment. First, though, I have a general question: is there someplace where extremely elementary questions are answered, and very elementary functions are described? Software is learned to such a large extent by using it. I have a feeling that if I could just perform a few simple operations, by following a set of steps, I would get a much quicker and better feel for the interface. As it is, I have done quite a lot of reading, but am still pretty lost.

    Now for my specific questions. My first wish is a simple one, although perhaps slightly unusual: I would like to create a small transparent gif. (I want to use it as a space-filler on a website.) I've tried in a couple of ways, but nothing seems to be making much sense or working. How could I do that?

    My second wish is to take a gif from the Web, change its color, resize it, and possibly superimpose an arrow or exclamation point on top of it. I would imagine that this is the type of thing that a lot of people would like to do with an image-editing program such as Paint.NET. I know certain things about this, for example, that I can use the text tool for an exclamation point; and that the superimposition will involve layers. I inserted the gif in question onto the image canvas yesterday, however, and tried to do a few things to it. Nothing happened. It just sat there inert, no matter what I tried to do. This second question involves four different processes, but I'm not sure how to do any of them.

    Is there already a place that describes how to do them? Or would someone be kind enough to explain here?

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