Andrewjmarino Posted February 12, 2015 Share Posted February 12, 2015 Hi, It's been some time since I've worked with Paintnet. I have 4.0.5. My apologies for having forgotten how to easily do this. I have portrait images that I need to include in a photo gallery. So, I resized the height of the portrait images to equal the height of the landscape images/gallery - no problem. And, I changed the width of the canvas size to equal the width of the landscape images/gallery creating padding on each side of the image - no problem I'm having trouble easily changing the canvas color to black. When I used the paint bucket and primary and secondary colors, I ended up with the black bleeding into the image. If I set the tolerance to 0% there was still some bleed, because there is a bit of pure white in part of the image. Eventually, I used the rectangle tool to select each side of the canvas separately (left / right) and then the paint bucket to fill with black. I guess that this will work, but I thought there was an easier method to change only the canvas color that I used before - and have apparently forgotten Thanks Andrew Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ego Eram Reputo Posted February 12, 2015 Share Posted February 12, 2015 It depends on how you created the padding. If it is transparent (let's hope so) then this will work: 1: Open the image. 2: Create a new layer and move it below the image layer. 3: fill the new layer with black. 4: Save As... a *.pdn to preserve the layer structure. 5: Save As.. your preferred image format - flattening when you are prompted to. Quote ebook: Mastering Paint.NET | resources: Plugin Index | Stereogram Tut | proud supporter of Codelab plugins: EER's Plugin Pack | Planetoid | StickMan | WhichSymbol+ | Dr Scott's Markup Renderer | CSV Filetype | dwarf horde plugins: Plugin Browser | ShapeMaker Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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