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I actually want to replace the existing orange with green and the navy with orange (probably) perhaps a different colour. I'll be sure to try your method later on though. Presumably with it all one colour I could use the wand to select the outline and make it what ever colour I liked - safe in the knowledge it's a solid block of colour and not graduated.

Thanks for the reply Mike. I'm somewhat of a novice with Paint.net, but keen to clean this up as best I can. I tried to follow a guide to alpha masks from the wiki but I got a 404 - can you point me in the direction of one please or perhaps expand on your post as I'm not sure where to start!

How is that different to the magic wand tool, and also how 'fussy' is the replace colour - if there are different tones of the blue would it not only replace the one you specify? Thanks for your assitance thus far

It's a version of this logo: http://www.mohockeyyd.org/images/LogoStLouisRockets.JPG essentially.

I have a logo which has an outline around it. I have recoloured this outline by using the magic wand tool. Originally it was a navy colour and I have replaced it with orange. When I zoom right in I am concerned I can see minor traces of the navy. To counteract this I thought I could use the wand tool again to select the path and then add a 'boarder' to this path of the same colour, making it thicker but getting rid of the navy traces. I had a look and couldn't seem to do it, it just made the orange go and in its place was a white path with a thin outline?!

I create a new layer (transparent by default) but when I paste over from Excel it's still white. Are you suggesting to forget Excel and the table idea entirely and just manually type the text in? Also, in the past, on totally unrelated projects I've not discovered how I can edit text I've already written if I stop using the text tool and say return to that layer later?

I basically want to be able to copy/paste an Excel table on to a picture I intend to use for my desktop background. I tried this and straight from Excel it has a white background on the cells, not transparent as I would require. I looked at various options in Excel and it seems this is not possible. I don't mind creating the table from scratch once in Paint.net if I can modify it periodically. I looked around and I couldn't see an obvious option to add a table... can anyone think of a way I could do this? All I'm trying to do is stick a list of phone extensions in text on my desktop background so I don't have a tatty bit of paper sitting around and I don't have to open a file when I want an extension! Any ideas appreciated! (Including alternatives to Paint.net if something else can accomplish what I am trying to do easier (and is free!))

Yes, that's right, I home brew and this time I'd like to go one stage further and make my own beer label! - I have a label I have carefully peeled off a bottle which is not a complicated shape, that's my template. So, with this label scanned in my first task is to create an outline for my new label - someone I work with informed me of Live Trace in Illustrator, alas I don't have any commercial products at my disposal... So, with a label like this http://www.thetanner...es/drinks/7.jpg (mine is larger and scanned so will not be as clean) how can I simply get an outline so I basically just have an empty shape which I can then play around with and get to the correct size? Secondly, is it possible to replace one colour with another, if so how?! - I would like to pick a colour from a scan and replace it with white (I figured this is easier than deleting it). The picture in question will be something like http://www.picomouss...rm_ambiorix.jpg and I'd want to be simply removing the black and replacing it with white, then perhaps replacing the writing on the burgundy so it's solid. Again mine would be a scan so larger and not as 'clean' any help appreciated, this will be the starting point of my label