Creating a pattern from a previous picture and/or layers?

[laggerbomber]

I know that photoshop has a feature where you can save a picture and use that picture as a pattern fill but is there a way for me to do that in paint.net? for example, i want a canvas filled with the words "paint dot net" that is arranged in a staggered manner but i am not sure how to go about doing this. I've searched on the forum and found that you do a repeating pattern type thing when you use tiling in the rotate/zoom menu but the thing is that when you drag the zoom slider to a point where you get a noticable pattern, the text gets too small and when you try to resize it the text gets pixelated. The thing is that i want the text to be readable but in a staggered pattern

(i.e.:

PAINT.NET PAINT.NET PAINT.NET PAINT.NET PAINT.NET PAINT.NET

.NET PAINT.NET PAINT.NET PAINT.NET PAINT.NET PAINT.NET PAINT

etc etc...)

sorry if this is confusing, i'm not too good w/ words.

[Myrddin]

Try the Photo Flood Fill plugin by pleska: viewtopic.php?f=16&t=1577.