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Thank you EER. I just uploaded the original photo and two corrected versions to Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/109221759@N08/ One version uses mild color correction, the other uses about the same color correction and also lightens the scene. The photos were made in a cave restaurant with some sort of very warm fluorescent lighting. Thanks for your help. I hope there is a way to control file size other than reducing the size or resolution of a photo EB

For me, Paint.Net's doubling of file size is a possible deal breaker. I can't see why it is necessary, or why there doesn't seem to be a way to choose not to save metadata/history. When I made an overall color correction to a JPG photo (originally 4.3 Mb) from my camera, and wind up with an 8+ Mb file, I thought I must have done something wrong. But, now it looks like that is the way Paint.Net works. Am I missing something? If this is the only way P.N works, I'll just have to move on to another program. EB

Thank you for a) moving my posting and 2) for the suggestion about uploading a photo of the embroidered patch. I'll upload a photo tomorrow, since I don't have accounts in any photo dropboxes at present. I'm a rank newby with Paint.net, but spent some time tonight playing with creating the artwork from scratch. Once I got a little feel for the tools, it went very quickly to create the oval outline of our club logo in an appropriate color. I have to rummage through my other computer to find a B&W line art image (a lighthouse on a bluff) that I need to place in the oval. This will give a chance to learn something about working with layers. I'm getting psyched, and I have a little time to play before I need add the club logo to the next issue of our newsletter. Thanks again. EB

Hi, [in my newby-ness, I posted this in the Publishing forum, and was told to post it here.] I want to modify a photo of an embroidered patch of my club's logo to make the texture appear simply smooth, flat art, not embroidered. Unfortunately, we have lost the original artwork that was used to make the embroidered patch, but I have nice sharp photos in GIF and JPG format. I've found info on how to add texture, but I want to do opposite -- smooth out the texture of the embroidered patch, so I can use it as a logo in print (in a newsletter, stationery, etc.) and on the web and in e-mails. Is there a way to "de-texturize" an object in a photo? And is it possible to de-texturize the entire patch, or would it be necessary to do each color separately? Thank you. EB

Hi, I want to modify a photo of an embroidered patch of my club's logo to make the texture appear simply smooth, not embroidered. Unfortunately, we have lost the original artwork that was used to make the embroidered patch, but we have nice sharp photos of the patch itself. The photos are in both GIF and JPEG format. I've found info on how to add texture, but I want to do opposite -- smooth out the texture of the embroidered patch, so I can use it as a logo in print (in a newsletter, stationery, etc.) and on the web and in e-mails. Is there a way to "de-texturize" an object in a photo? And is it possible to de-texturize the entire patch, or would it be necessary to do each color separately? Thank you. EB