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Nice method yellowman, thank you. I learned a neat trick today which will save me a lot of time. Without even asking for it question. So thank you too, mikemp.

Use the Colour Picker tool to select the blue lines colour, invert primary and secondary colours, and using the same tool select the paper backgroung colour. Your colour pallete window should now show the paper colour as primary and the line colour as secondary. Use the Recolouring (Colour Replace) tool to paint the background colour over the lines.

Downloaded through the Utilities menu and working fine. Thank you.

Silly me! I meant to give you a link to the Circle Text plugin. I'll need to be more careful next time. It's a good thing Sarkut came to the rescue.

The image you attached does not show the working image size in pixels but I suspect that it is 1024 pixels in height. One way is to fine tune your selection with the keyboard arrows keys. If you want to select the full height of an image and an exact width, a much easier method I use is to enter a larger number of pixels in the fixed mode of the selection tool. Let’s say I have an image 4000 pixels wide and 1024 pixels high and I want to copy a fixed sized selection of 1024*1024. I’d set the selection tool numbers to 1024 pixels in width by (say) 1100 pixels in height. I know I can’t copy more than 1024 pixels in height because my image is 1024 pixels in height and I don’t have to worry about missing a pixel or two when placing my selection. The same, of course, applies for selecting the full width of an image but with entering a larger number for the width dimension.

http://forums.getpaint.net/index.php?/topic/21066-placing-text-in-curving-space/

Use either Outline which is part of BoltBait's Plugin Pack or Outline Object which is part of pyrochild's plugins set. Either will do a fine job.

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hear, hear...

Open the photo of your item for sale and the image of the Union Jack. Resize the Union Jack as needed and, from the menu, Edit - Select All (Ctrl+A) and Edit - Copy (Ctrl+C). On the item photo menu, Edit - Paste in to New Layer (Ctrl+Shift+V), then use the Move Selected Pixels tool to place it in the desired position. Then Edit - Deselect (Ctrl+D). In the Layers window, click on Add New Layer , select the Text tool , schoose the font, colour and size you like and type your text. If you need to, use the Move Selected Pixels tool to place it in the desired position. In the Layers window, click on Merge Layer Down (twice) to merge all layers. File - Save as.. in a format that e-bay allows for uploading images. Optional: Click Undo (twice) so that you have your image again in three layers and File - Save As.. in Paint.NET format (*.pdn). This will save a file with separate Union Jack and text layers. You can use this file for more item photographs. Just open the .pdn, click on the bottom layer in the Layers window and then, from the menu, Layers - Import from File and select the new photograph. P.S. I forgot to mention I'm a big fan of Big Jock

Darn! Beaten by welshblue in the time it took me to create and upload the images! Anyway, it was good practise for me for my first tutorial... many years from now Someone (sorry, I don't remember who) suggested using the line tool in another thread (if I remember right, it was on a tutorial for a "Shield" thread): Step 1: Step 2: Step 3: End result: Resize as needed.

Use Rectangle Select to select the part you want to keep Then, Image -> Crop to Selection

Fonts are not installed into Paint.NET (or any of the plugins) and should not appear in any of its folders. Paint.NET uses the fonts installed in your Windows OS as long as they are True Type fonts (.ttf) and not Open Type fonts. If you’re not sure which type your favourite fonts are, go to the Windows Control Panel, open your Fonts folder and right click -> Properties on the fonts in question. Or, it could be easier (and quicker) to try and see. Select the text tool, use the drop down list to find the font you like and type. If the fonts work with the standard text tool, they should work with the plugin too.

The reason why you can only type over the imported image is because the resized image is an active selection. Edit -> Deselect (Ctrl+D) to cancel the selection and type anywhere on your canvas. To avoid Paint.NET resizing your canvas (i.e. image size) do not use Layers -> Import from File. Instead, open the image to be pasted with Paint.NET, Edit -> Select All (Ctrl+A) and then go back to the original image and Edit -> Paste in to New Layer (Ctrl+Shift+V). A window will pop up with the choices of “Expand canvas”, “Keep canvas size” or “Cancel”. Choose “Keep canvas size”. You’ll notice that only the top left part of the new image that fits in to the original canvas will be visible, but you’ll still be able to see the outline of the new image extending beyond your canvas. Hold down shift (to preserve the aspect ratio), using the mouse grab any of the corner knobs of the outlined pasted image and drag it inwards to reduce it to your desired size. Alternatively, open with Paint.NET the image to be pasted, Image -> Resize (Ctrl+R) and reduce to the desired size. Then Edit -> Select All (Ctrl+A), go back to the original image and click Edit -> Paste in to New Layer (Ctrl+Shift+V).

Because you do not need to press enter to "finish" copy and/or paste.

It could be that you placed the .dll in the Effects folder instead of the ..\Program Files\Paint.NET\FileTypes\ folder.

Press Ctrl-D (or Edit - Deselect on the menu) before runnung Fade Edge you should be alright.

Assuming all photos are the same size and framed exactly the same (as you write they are), another way is: 1. Open the first photo in Paint.NET. On the menu, click File - Save As and save your photo with a different name, e.g CroppingFile. 2. On the menu, click Layers - Import From File and choose the second photo. This will import the second photo on a new layer over the first one. The second photo will now be visible. 3. Repeat Import From File for as many photos as you want to crop. You should end up with as many layers as you have photos to crop. The last photo you imported will be visible. 4. Select the area you want to keep on the top (visible) layer with the rectangle select tool and, on the menu, click Image - Crop to Selection. This will crop all layers to the exact same size and at the exact same position. 5. Press and hold CTRL and then press A on your keyboard. This will select the cropped copy of your photo on the top layer. Then, press and hold CTRL, press and hold ALT and then press V on your keyboard. This will open a new Untitled file in Paint.NET with the cropped copy of the last photo you imported. Save this file in the format you prefer with any name other than the name of the original photo, e.g. Photo15crop. 6. In the Layers window, click on the second layer from the top, repeat step 5 and name the copy of the second last photo you imported appropriately. 7. Repeat step 6, clicking in turn on all layers of the multi-layered CroppingFile and name all cropped copies of your photos with a different file name. You should now have all your original photos intact and copies of all photos cropped to the same size and at the same position. You can now either delete the Cropping File or save it as PDN in order to keep extra copies of the cropped photos all in one file. EDIT: I think it reads more complicated than it actually is, so here is the short version: 1. Import all photos on separte layers in the same file. 2. Crop to the selection you want. 3. Save each layer as a separate file.

Click and hold Shift on your keyboard and then use the Rectangle Select tool . This will make a square selection. Alternatively fix the Height to Width ratio to 1:1

Drop Shadow only works on objects with adjacent transparent pixels. If your selection does not include transparent pixels around an object, Drop Dhadow will not work. If this is the case, I suggest you copy your selection (Ctrl+C) and paste it on a new layer (Ctrl+Shift+V), deselect (Ctrl+D) and then apply Drop Shadow. You can then merge the new layer back into the one your selection was made from.

^^^ bloody potato article. This person has no idea what he/she is writing about. "... Pain.net ..."? To top it all off, this is an article on a website about "PC News Around The World!"! (the exclamation mark within the codes is the website’s. The one out of the quotes is mine)

EER, as hard as I looked, I couldn’t find pyrochild’s Trail plugin in your index, neither in your PDF. Something to consider for your next update?

Try pyrochild’s Trail plugin. I think it’s just the tool for this task.

The pdf is very useful. Thank you for thinking of us.