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Hi guys I have a problem: images I save are huge. As in a GIF file of a line-art piece (approx 600pixels across, A4) weighs in at 300KB or more. This doesn't happen with low-res art I open from elsewhere. It's specific to stuff I scan (using a Canoscan LIDE 100 via the scanner driver, not Paint.net's own scanner dialog). The files are saved externally at 300DPI, then brought into Paint.NET. Here I make whatever changes - including a drop of the pixel res by 25%, dropping DPI to 100 and converting the file to black and white. Yet I get these massive file sizes in Gif, JPG or PNG. An uncompressed JPG goes to 500KB! It makes no sense to me, but it is consistent with a file that registers as 300dpi. but the file is reduced - it reports as and scales to the visual sizes consistent wit the downgrades. This is a serious problem - I can't use Paint.net if my file sizes have suddenly doubled! So any advice or insight would be great. for example, is it possible to access the scanner driver interface via Paint.net? Maybe that can make a difference. thanks, James

Thanks can anyone give me insight on the file saving sizes, though? This is a real problem - I can't send out images that are either excessively large or look low quality.

Hi guys I recently switched from Photoshop to Paint.net. I am not comparing the two at all - obviously I'd expect more from the expensive Adobe package than this excellent free editor. Still, I have a few performance and technical questions. 1. In Photoshop you can switch to a web pallet, which is more elaborate than the basic tints in Paint.net. I need that pallet again. Stopping short at manually translating all those colours to a new pallet, is there a way to access a similar pallet in Paint.net (or somewhere to download it)? 2. Paint.net seems to have performance issues with large files - A3 at 300 DPI. Even grayscale scans suffer. Most notably the bucket and wand functions really suffer with such large files. Now to be fair, these files are line art with very little gradient and no colour. In fact, at this moment Paint.net appears to be crashing due to a wand function on such a file. Is there something wrong with my copy, are these known issues and is there anything I can do about it? 3. Paint.net seems to save files more like Irfanview than Photoshop. In other words, files are either very big or look a bit bad. For example, I had a line-art file that measured roughly 800x1200 at 100dpi, switched to black and white. But even this file, saved in a Gif, exceeded 300kb. A JPG at 8 left a lot of artifacts and still went over 300kb. At 10 it went over 500kb! Now that is obviously wrong. Is there anything I can do to improve the quality/compression ratios of the files? thanks, James