Hillsborough Community College online tech guru tells us that "Paint.Net is free image and photo editing software for computers that run Windows. It features an intuitive and innovative user interface with support for layers, unlimited undo, special effects, and a wide variety of useful and powerful tools. An active and growing online community provides friendly help, tutorials, and plugins." Here's the situation and I know I am probably preaching to the choir, but students who check the box 'Full Time' are usually already slammed and need to be up and running pretty quick and this may be the reason they cannot find a link to the tutorial or further descriptions of the plug-ins, etc.
(1) On behalf of all students, where is the link to the Tutorial; while 'Help' and 'Search' are great after you are beginning to get comfortable, in my case I am more comfortable with a searchable tutorial that uses more of a topos means of organization; for example: Chapter 1 - Getting Started which goes into detail about how this software can be used. Newbies especially, need simple terms and acronyms that are defined and this practice cannot be accomodated by a web page because while as front page news it is usually bland information, it is the meat and potatoes of why I visited your site.
(2) Chapter 2 .... "Plug-ins and other compatibilities, etc.
(3) How To ..... Find a file that you would like to experiment with ..... save it here; etc.
(4) The tutorial will provide another way that you can promote your genius, website, self and each other, especially if there are how-to video's embedded in the script. Think about it; won't you?
kmoseley@hawkmail.hccfl.edu