jim100361

It's not making them smaller, you're simply using images that are different sizes. When this occurs, Paint. NET should be asking you if you wish to expand the canvas. Most likely you're responding with yes and thus the canvas enlarges to accomodate the new larger layer and keeps your original picture at it'soriginal dimensions. My recommendation is to respond no, and then downsize the new larger image to more closely match the first. I recommend this because enlarging the other may distort it too much.

You need to paste it onto a new layer. Once you do this, you won't see the checkerboard. Once you've copied it to the new layer, you can then merge the 2 layers together without it resulting in showing the checkerboard. From this point you can save it.

I've been meaning to comment on this. I think it's a cool tutorial. I haven't yet had an opportunity to put my hand to the test on this, but this is certainly on my list to try. Congrats!

Shadows of the heart is a bit dark for my personal preference, but that aside, reflecting on all the other aspects of the piece, I think it is nicely done.

I loved the "glowing glossy" picture. I thought it was very well done. Great work!

Great start to your gallery. They all appear very well done - especially for someone new to Paint.NET (I was forever forgetting to use AA Assistant - and still do sometimes) to clean-up some of my work. I can't wait to see more... and good luck on the puzzle piece, I hope you enjoy it.

This forum is about Paint.net. You should contact someone directly relates to the software you are using to get help.

That's really a cool piece.

Thank you all. I'm glad you enjoyed it. @Welsh: I owe it to the Kangaroo. With its almost human-like pose, it only seemed fitting to make him more so.

I've never experienced this behavior before. Are your drivers current? Are you using wireless? If so, do you have fresh batteries? Are you on a laptop? If so, maybe your hand is is grazing the touchpad. I know my laptop's touchpad is super sensitive. I don't know of these are your problems or not but I'm just pointing out some things you may take a look at since you've not already said what you've checked.

First, if you suggest that coders do this "only if they want", then what about the folks who still want to put it into a favorites submenu but can't because the coder didn't change the code? Second, let's assume that everybody re-codes (for the sake of argument), how many tutorials will also need to be re-written? When I've written tutorials I've intentionally provided screenshots to show the menu paths of where to find the plugin as the reader is following along. Certainly on my end all I'd have to do is to add a note at the beginning of the tutorial that if a reader installed the "favorites" version then all they need to do is go to their "favorites" sub-menu. But I would submit that for a newbie who is involved in a tutorial flipping back and forth between the tutorial and Paint.NET, it would be confusing. And what about tutorials that have been written, but the original author no longer frequents these forums and/or maybe have one posted offsite? There are a lot of issues to consider and I think as much as you think it will simplify things, I think the reverse will more likely be the result. You may disagree with this, but look at how much folks are already trying to do as little as possible and still expect that the program is going to do everything for them. People aren't interested in the basics, everything needs to covered by a plugin or some "quick" way to accomplish something. Likewise, you're just throwing another something into the cogs for folks to consider rather than simply moving forward with what lies ahead. ...just my simple opinion - I'm not trying to be condescending or insulting, I'm just expressing to look at everything and human nature. People want to simply move on and don't want confusion which I think this is going to do.

Once you've flattened and closed Paint.NET you cannot recover the layers. The right method would be to either: 1.) First save as a .pdn file then save again in the format you originally desired. 2.) If you've first saved in the format of your choice which required you to flatten it, as long as Paint.NET is still open, you can go to the History pane and click on the process just before where it shows "flattened". This will undo it and you can then save in the .pdn format.

My question: What do you expect to gain from it?

Possibly. He says it "becomes white after cut". But, he also said in paint.net "it becomes good". Since I'm associate "cut" with Paint.net as opposed to simply posting to a webpage, it seems contradictory. Now, I could be entirely wrong because of his broken english, but my questions should further clarify what he's trying to say.

Exactly!

Duplicate the cage layer. Once you've duplicated it, on the top one, erase the "background" (easier said than done with all the mesh lines). Place your image that you're inserting in between these layers.

How so?

Nice job on restoring the photo. Would you mind terribly if I gave it a try? I love doing these sorts of things - they can be very challenging.

Nice piece with your latest one. However, my mind sort of interprets the meshed globe as a sort of cage and as a result I guess I'm expecting to see something inside it. That's not to say there's anything wrong with it, it's simply a matter of how my mind works I guess.

But he didn't say he could see the white behind it. This is why I asked the questions that I did. All 3 questions were posed to find out exactly what he was seeing.

LOL, very funny!

Thanks Drew. I appreciate the comments. So, recently I came across this fellow while doing a search: He seemed to be pretty comfortable laying their soaking up the sun's rays. However, with such a striking pose, I thought he could do better. So I went out and searched for a new habitat for him: Now who could refuse such a lovely place like this? Sunshine and cool waters...! He really seems to be enjoying himself as much now as he did at his old home:

So how do you know it's not working on the website? If the image has transparency, would not the white background show through? Or are you still seeing the checkerboard pattern on your image on the website?

I started putting together a series of screenshots to put together a tutorial for you. However, when I was scaling down the duplicated layer, I encountered a problem: I was using the shift key while I reduced it, which kept the image in proportion. But as you can see, there is the one section which does't fit well and using the method I was previously describing, will result in a missing section if we were to proceed further. So, I came up with an alternative: Notice the search criteria: "Outline State of Oregon". As you can see there are some alternatives out there.

Can you explain how you've determined it's not working on the website? Did you put it on a colored background and the color is not showing through it? Or is it simply a white background on the website where you put the image?