BadlandsRacer

Well I never really figured out how to blend it into the background behind it...but that's fine. It came out alright anyway, for the first thing I've ever made with paint.NET. http://img444.imageshack.us/img444/4725 ... orsami.jpg

Well it seems I can use the alpha mask to blur to WHITE around the edges of my picture...but not transparency. So rather than fade into the background, it's surrounded by a nimbus of white...which is still kinda cool...

Okay, I'm trying to use these two tutorials to see what I can come up with....but I MAY require additional assistance, lol. I'm trying to make the mask layer for the fade to transparency, and it's REALLY confusing...cause I want it to fade into the large picture that I'm using as a background. Hopefully I can figure it out.

I think you may misunderstand me...this doesn't seem to change my text all that much. I'm kind of looking to get a glowing nimbus that surrounds the text, not makes the actual letters lighter. Is there a plug-in for this?

I'm just looking to figure out how to get my text and objects from another layer to "glow", as shown here. http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a329/ ... ter_v2.png That, or blend a picture from another layer into the background layer so it looks like the picture just...melts away into the background at the edges....if you know what I'm saying? I'm trying to make a birthday card for my fiancee, and am pretty new to paint.NET.