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You only pay once. It is not a subscription. The updates come to you free also.

Maybe an uninstall and re-install is in order. BTW: What happens when you run Paint.NET as an administrator? What happens if you run Paint.NET in 'safe-mode'?

The point is that you should not have to make any adjustments. Any adjustments should made by the printing company. Some staff of printing companies are weak in their craft and are not masters of their equipment. Some of notions held by the staff people date back to information from the days of offset printing that used halftone lines and dots. Today's printers have its own print drivers and often come with great printing software that is independent of the app that created the image. They use sRGB and not CYMK. If you select a dimension for the image it calculates the DPI to print that image so that it will be pleasing. In fact large images such as highway bill boards may be printed at 6 DPI since they are viewed from far away. (larger dots but greater viewing distance) Small images like most photo graphs are viewed from up close need the a higher DPI than a posters that are viewed from several feet away. For monitors its PPI. A smartphone has more Pixels Per Inch than an 80 inch TV set. These are my favorite links on subject of DPI vs PPI: PPI vs DPI - Explained Properly (at last!) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8S2cnZ2QR70 dpi (Dots per inch) Explained https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=feGjpHXBAYc Understanding Resolution; PPI, DPI for Print and Digital | PhotoJoseph’s Photo Moment 2017-02-28 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QveT_6BQ72o Myths #001 Do I need 300dpi? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33lWbu-m0Ew Image Size and Resolution Explained https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jp2Q2g0A5wc Pixel Density, Demystified https://vimeo.com/169809377

Although this problem has little to do with Paint.NET I will offer this analogy as possible help to your understanding. Think of your image as 35 mm film transparency. It has a specific dimension ( 36×24 mm with an aspect ratio of 3:2). If I put the slide in a projector and project it onto a screen; the projection will be larger or smaller by using a zoom feature (or by adjusting the distance from the screen.) In my analogy the projector represents the printer. My point is that the dimension of the slide can remain constant while the size of the projection can be adjusted by the operator. If you feel that you need adjustments to your image simply double your image dimensions from 2200 x 3000 px to 4400 x 6000 px.

I used the Pixel Stretch technique along with the G'MIC-qt Illuminate 2D Effect to create this:

'One man's pleasure is another man's pain!' I am one who is grateful that anti-aliasing is not applied automatically to my work. I like to have the option to apply it when, where, to what degree I need it!. When I do use it, it mostly done thru feathering, but sometimes it is done on whole images thru blurs and smoothing.

Here is a link to a true 24 bit color image file: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e9/16777216colors.png It is 4096 x 4096 pixels. If opened in Paint.NET it is 96 DPI If opened in Krita it is 72 DPI If opened in Windows Paint it is 120 DPI It is the same image, so which is correct? The answer is that it does not matter until you print it to your desired dimensions! BTW: I have my works printed at our new local Fastsigns . I work directly with printing staff there. They have done excellent work on 'all' of my print projects from 13 x 19 inches up to 4 x 8 feet!

Ego Eram Reputo is correct. PPI and DPI are not the same thing. Most of the canvases that I create in PDN are 5000 x 5000 px at a resolution of 96 PPI. At that resolution the image would print nicely to 52 x 52 inch paper. If I created the the canvas as 5000 x 5000 px at a resolution of 300 PPI it would print to an image size of ~ 17 x 17 inches. In both instances the image is 5000 x 5000 px. Consider this; the camera in my cell phone outputs to 18.7 MP (4992 x 3744 px), but the CMOS image sensor is only about a half inch square, but prints to poster size. Resolution deals with the image in pixels, while DPI is the size of drops of ink on a surface.

Font handling is done thru Windows and not thru Paint.NET! Are these fonts installed in the Windows font folder or are the access over the cloud? Maybe information here will be helpful: https://helpx.adobe.com/fonts/using/managing-fonts.html

My image storage is on a GoDaddy server. Whether or not apng or webp files will run on the viewers computer is dependent on the browser that the viewer is using to receive the Internet content. The palette cycling butterfly webp animation above is not from Godaddy, but is linked to its source. This apng animation is linked to its source for wikimedia: BTW: Currently; my browser of choice is Opera.

I was able to open this WebP image link in all of my browsers but Internet Explorer:

WebP also supports animation. I will run a test to see if they run here from my image server.

Make sure that your PNG file is being saved to 32 bit color to maintain transparency and maximum of colors! At 24 bit color you will save your level of colors but lose transparency. At 8 bit color you 'may' lower number of colors and some transparency. In 4 bit color you will lose both. If your background turns from a checker board to white after Paint.NET prepares your image for saving, you have lost transparency! BTW: I use the early Windows standard for monitors of 96 PPI when I make my Paint.NET canvases. I save may Paint.NET work; first as PDN files, and then as TIF. I will convert to JPG if the work is to be presented on the Internet.

The blade in the original photo has a tooth count of 24 printed on the blade. I used a transparent top layer and the Effects>Texture>Light Rays plugin to divided the area withe the colors a settings that you see in the screen capture below:

I don't use One Drive or Google Drive but I do get the green check in another cloud storage app called 'Drop Box'. The X or check is not a Paint.NET problem. As Welshblue said, it could be a sync problem. This link may provide additional help: https://www.thewindowsclub.com/red-x-on-folders-files-or-hard-drive-in-windows-10

@prophet001 I don't think Paint.NET does that. It appears that you would be better served with a dedicated image converter. Here is the link to a good one: (it will do batch image resizing by pixel dimensions or by %) https://www.xnview.com/en/xnconvert/

I have used masking often, but for adding highlights and shadows to the edges of text and shapes. I will try your recommendation.

It appears that the problem is within Discord and how it handles images with transparency. Since this is not a Paint.NET problem and I don't use Discord this is far as I will go with this. There are apps that allow for editing/customizing Discord. Here is one that seems to be popular: (Good Luck!)

@Irreversible Extents I am using Windows 10 v1909 build 18363.449 This is what appears on my screen.

There is also a limit to the file sizes the free version remove.bg will handle. The report is that the free version has a file size limit of 0.25 megapixels. If your image has an aspect ratio of 16:9 your image can only be as large as 667 x 375 pixels. I have used and have recommended TR's Alpha Cutter. Have not use it in a while. I will have to revisit it. At the time that I was using it; I was having problems managing the zoom feature.

A quick web search reals that Discord is written in Javascript and is launch within your default browser. I read that backgrounds are being added by how the app or browser deals with transparent backgrounds in its CSS in HTML. You may want to check to see if Discord can be launched via various browsers. Maybe they handle images with transparency differently.

@xod I have use a similar method but instead of tracing with cyan; I use magenta. After the subject is traced, I select the Fill Bucket and a tolerance of ~70-75% to fill the background and other enclosed traced areas. Next I paint using magenta the background areas that did not fill. Last I use the Wand Tool to remove the magenta.

Click on settings, the go to Update & Security and click, and then on the right side of the screen you will see link to OS build info. Click and scroll down and see if you have Windows 10 version 1909. If you OS has not been updated you may need to run the Troubleshooter to fix the Updater or you may have your system set to only update by permission. BTW: Make sure that your system clock is correct. It can effect downloads for some reason.

@mariah Often you will have to use both the Wand Tool and The Eraser Tool as demonstrated in the video below: (However, I would use the enlarged Eraser first to get rid of big portions of the background, and then zoom in to use a much smaller Eraser to get in close and clean up the remaining background elements that are next to the main image.) I would zoom in much closer and use the Eraser with a 2 pixel width to really get in close. Next I would use a Feathering plugin to soften the edges around my main subject before merging the background and foreground. There are Feathering plugins included in Boltbait's plugin pack: https://forums.getpaint.net/topic/113220-boltbaits-plugin-pack-for-pdn-v41-and-beyond-updated-december-1-2018/