The Very Basics of Paint.Net (part 2)

[Celestialnumber3]

Hi ozwalled, thanks for posting these paint.net vids, I'm trying to get two separate images and to sit them side by side to create one image, do you know how to do this? many thanks :-)

[Textynn]

can you only open one pic at a time? This is driving me crazy

[PittbullPerson]

My color wheel disappeared how do I get it back??

[BandDPiano]

@PittbullPerson in the bar at the top, click: Window>Colors.

[Choisekunkun]

@PittbullPerson

Top bar > Windows > Colors

[TheFantageJesse5008]

@Choisekunkun thanks (:

[PittbullPerson]

How do you get a picture up to color on paint.net?

[SuperEssense]

Thanks. I want to draw a simple normal distribution-type curve using the line/curve tool. I am used to MS Paint where I just pull the middle of the curve outwards but with the multiple control points on the curve line in Paint.Net I find it more difficult. Is it possible to have only one central control point on the curve line tool?

[AJ09EARLEY]

how do you open the colors option??? i cant find it thanks :D

[CsJonttu]

@AJ09EARLEY You have to go " Windows " Colors and then use the " More at color wheel "

[vaxivop1]

To everyone wondering how to get things you accedently x'd out click on "window" and then choose the thing you want back (ect. if you accedently remove the color panel click on window and click on color.)

[Montyfiable]

how do I change the way the fill tool works in paint.net

[samian1232]

hey i accendtly cut the color tollbar so how can i get them back

[skylightzone]

For all the people that are wondering, F8, or window -> colors will (re-)open your color wheel!

[thekarateben]

same HELP I CANT GET THE COLOUR WHEEL UP REPLY PLEASE

[nessy123xx]

Hi,my colour whiele has gone missing!! and i dont know how to get it back,can you help me?!?!?!

[zombiehurazment]

more views?!?!?!? lol

[SpiritLadyArtist]

I want to adjust the size and location of a circle and I can't do it doing the ellipses.

[xtranormal23]

This program is amazing.

[ryanconner360]

thanks alot

[CrossoverGameReviews]

Wow. What have I been doing for the past 10 years? I've been using paint for so long and all the shortcuts I wish it had are all in Paint.net. I just downloaded the program and if it is truly better than MS Paint, than I may never go back to MSP ever again.

[SpiritLadyArtist]

@CrossoverGameReviews It is better in many ways. I have MS paint for Windows 7 and the issues I have with it it saves low res files or I would keep using it. I would load a high res one and it would reduce an no way to keep the high res.

It has stuff that paint net don't have and controls paint net don't have in the new version. Paint net you can get plug in so it can do what paint can't. I was going back and forth till I realized paint messes up the resolution and it is useless to me.

[maxwel2543]

in my opinion if the creators were to just make multiple brush options this would be way better then stupid Sai

[SpiritLadyArtist]

@maxwel2543 I agree. I can't adjust the location and size of a circle. They can put something in for that MS paint has it.

[tequillaism]

wow cool! i really want to use it now. such amazing software

[MoonschoolGamer]

Thanks. (:

[lc237]

Very helpful. Thanks.

[BeautyOfLove1]

Thanks! :D Gimp could not do that.

[maxwel2543]

@BeautyOfLove1 reely my biggest wish for these programs is if all the top competing program companies were to just fuse together ideas and make one super program so we artists/editers/animaters wouldn't have to download all these different programs its a fun adventure but sometimes a hassle

[heavenisearth]

Thank you for these videos. Very much appreciate the quality, style and your very nice pacing and instructional methodology! THANKS!

[starkiller9695]

How do you open the pallet? I accidentally x'd it out

[sourceplayer151]

@starkiller9695 F8

[Byron10301]

Question: I need a software that is EXACTLY like MSpaint but draws smooth lines (like macromedia flash or smooth draw) ... any suggestions? (I don't use smooth draw because it has serious problems ... for example, you cannot insert pictures into it, or draw geometric shapes)

[cardmad123]

thanks i didnt know that!!!

[cuchuro]

Thank you so much for your videos... really needed a foolproof, easy to use image editor!

[boynedmaster]

How do you overlay a picture?

I've seen a video where a person makes his picture lighter,and then he outlined it.

[wylecoyote65]

how come everyone says he saved them???

[hulk2820]

Do you guys go on ROBLOX i do my username is tootoo123456

[achyutreddy24]

What about the features at the top can you make a tutorial on those effects??

[todayparents]

Hi thanks a lot for paint.net tutorial. Would you have any section showing people how to do a eBook cover? Much appreciate your work and attention.

Thanks.

[ilovecats790]

YOU  SAVED ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[liahmusiclover4]

I have the newest version and I can't find the color pop up thing. How do I find that?!

[SpookyFan]

@liahmusiclover4 You can either click the Window menu and select Colors or use the keyboard shortcut F8.

[antijelly]

these are great tutorials

i have been using paint.net for months,

and i learned something in the PART 1 video.

the whole [ ] keys thing i already knew everything in this torial but i am sure the next ones will teach me something as well

thankyou for these great videos

[bolt12345100]

6 people are colorblind. LOL. 

[bolt12345100]

Hmmm.... Greyish green! kinda like the background on DeviantART!

[bolt12345100]

SAVED! THX!!! :D

[FLAMEsquirrelWAR]

XD you have 69 videos

[TheSassa123]

THX a Bunch!

[skater101202303]

Aha Oswald that is the best name ever!! :D

Also thanks so much for uploading!! :D

[MathewAlden]

The more I watch your videos, the more you sound like my GAF teacher... lol

[Gdaiva1]

Thank you soo much! The best tutorials!

[yuritim]

dude- you are moving so fast with your kanuck accent that it became impossible to follow you as a beginner.

Also, you keep smacking your roof of mouth at the end of each sentence-very annoying.

Get professional sounding, for your own benefit going forward.

[teshanovic1]

hey thanks man,you really helped me a lot. :)

[Kiahsobyk]

Thank you very much...was a bit lost getting dropped into this program, and you've helped immensely.

[pennahittaren]

thanks alot, i downloaded it now, tnxxxxx for this, i owe you :)

[PorcelainBackbones]

woooowwww. i've been pronouncing the word 'cyan' wrong my entire life. I've been saying 'KI-ANN' instead of 'SY-ANN.

thank you Oswald, you have changed my entire lifes perspective. you may now have my first born child.

[insanemariofan9876]

30,001ST view.

AWESOME!

[MiiCar2]

Ahem... sorry im REALLY new to this and um... how do you add pictures saved onto ur computer onto paint.net like at 6.21

[JunOkami8]

@MiiCar2 :D I'm really new to it, too, just starting to figure things out.

Just a few days ago, I found out how - click "Layers" at the toolbar at the top of your screen, then look at the options on the dropdown window until you find the "Import from File..." option. Click on that and find your picture, and what you want should appear in a new layer. From there you can do whatever you want.

^u^" Sorry if my explaining is bad - I've never been a good teacher.

[911SmartGeek]

My Download is not working it keeps say Windows XP SP3,or Windows Vista SP1, or newer is requiered .___. you think you can help me ?

[GamesLitUp]

Go Cowboy Bebop!

[TBCchannel]

Thanks for the help!

[skeetvvideos]

your tutorials helped me alot

[TheTrueResponder]

How can I replace all pixels of a certain colour with a defined different one?

[xmansoorix]

D: I Worked So So So Hard On A Drawing And When I Finished I Deleted The Background to make it transparent and saved it but then i forgot to colore the eyes so i tryed to open the drawing and a error pooped out!

[DaMadhaTTeR424]

WOW!Ur a great teacher. on to part#3

[frogsoda]

@UKStrottonFilms Go to the top and click Window.

[PandaMcTanda]

Will you do an anime tutorial 

[rippenjoe]

n offense or anything but your voice is kinda boring

[RainbowXMadness]

Very helpful tutorial! This program is just what I'm looking for! Easy to use and good quality. :D

[maraki95jobros]

ok so.. im a new user and ive just downloaded the program today...

i just want to know how to change the eye colour and add makeup

and stuff like that ..  ??

[iiAndyxP]

Let's all subscribe him :D

[mimikitty42]

I need to know how to blend colors ._.

[mrAndy45656]

thanks

[binoyrakesh]

im pretty good with these basics. but i learnt a few new things. and youre a very good teacher. awesome job. 5/5 a million thanks :)

[tabeetaxtoxication]

I need to know how to blend =___=''

[kristinydnul444]

how do you blend colours?

[FreezingLazer]

how do you make something glow?

[WeRock199]

i use this for my animations ;)

[shallowbay3]

man you are a lifesaver

[odj007]

Man!! You are a life saver! This should have more views than this

[leopardskinner59]

@odj007 You mean Light Saber?!?!

[Gordinak2]

@leopardskinner59 HAHAHAHAHAHAHHA.... no

[cbtube1975]

very helpful..thanks for making the video.

[blueteeth59]

Help please, I pressed the X on my color wheel and now I can't find the color wheel anymore? Can you help me out?

[5hadoX]

Go to Window, then click on Colours.

[blueteeth59]

Awesome, thanks for the help!

[AniyuuWolf]

Make An Animited Tutorial.

[AAALAAAAN]

r u using camstudio it looks like it

[kweesp]

I was wondering, how do you make the lines appear wispy? Like like pressure was applied...

[fredikouger]

THAT WAS A GREAT VIDEO

[olivia131]

BORING

[fromstart2finish]

every time i try to shade my flat colors or apply a darker color it always replaces my orginal color.How can i do this with out messing up my colors on a drawing?

[Starbladek]

Is the sound kinda off?

[lionman0123]

lol ur rite xD but u cant see his lips, so its not as botherin lol

[beavercola]

thanks 4 the tips

[miss86DK]

OMG! You saved my day! I've always had trouble finding the right skin tones for my manga drawings (they usually end up being yellow in the face or something like that) when I draw on my computer. I never thought of borrowing the skin tones before. You are my new hero!

[ilovedrawing123]

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE TEll me how to reopen colours it wont let me :[

[CameraPeep101]

click the window button at the top of your screen and then select the color wheel. :)

[wildfire454]

ok i have a big q i being stupid exeted out of my color wheel and i cant figure out how to get it back could u help me?

[SavAnnah1237]

Go to the top bar. (Where it says; File, Edit, View etc.) & Press "Window" & Then click;

"Colors" & It should come back

/If you still don't understand, feel free to messages me about it. :)

[wildfire454]

it worked thank u : )

[SavAnnah1237]

Glad I could help! :D

[Zon3y]

How do you fade through to nothing? Thanks in advance.

[ozwalled2007]

I'm not altogether sure what you're asking -- please rephrase your question and be more descriptive.

[Zon3y]

Ok so say I had an images on the screen. What I'm asking is how do I fade the edges of an image until it matches whats else is around it. Sort of like blur it out to nothing but without the blur part. Sorry I'm really bad at articulating myself but I hope you understand this time. =)

[ozwalled2007]

That IS a lot clearer -- thanks. :)

The best way i know how to do this is faking it a bit -- Layer 1 is your "surrounding image" and Layer 2's the one we'll fade. Duplicate Layer 2 and select the lower Layer 2 and then Effect/Blurs/Unfoucs it and adjust the radius a bit. The Duplicate the layer several times to get a smoother brightness transition. From there, do some additional blurring on some of the duplicated layers, to get a larger gradient fade.

Does that do the trick?

[Zon3y]

Ah-ha that is clever. Thanks very much. Its not such a good method for darker images such as fading black. It did the trick though.If you come across any better ways be sure to let me know. Thanks again, you're a star.

[ozwalled2007]

Possibly better: select a smaller part of the image with the Rectangle selection tool., and then Ctrl+I to invert that selection -- this will select the outer edge of your image you wish to fade. From there, you can Blur.

Since it'll make a hard line, what you could do is Blur again but with a lower blur value, by selecting and inverting the selection again, but with a smaller initial rectangular selection, thus blurring more of the image and hopefully smoothing the transition a bit.

[mart201]

or you could use a transparency gradient...

select the image and then the gradient tool, select how you want the image to fade out, and then click transparency mode and have a play around with it, see what you can get...

if you dont get what i mean, go to screenfrog dot c0m / tutorials / paintnet  and click the second video

[ozwalled2007]

AH, excellent suggestion! Thanks -- I was actually not aware of that option. How embarrassing. :)

[Zon3y]

Yeah thanks from me too mart!

[mart201]

no problem guys, happy to help

oh, and ozwalled, i didnt know about holding shift and clicking two points to make a straight line :D

[mart201]

wait, no thats wrong... i meant to say i didnt know about the brush size changing to make a line go from big to small...

my bad

[chobotoliver]

go to 'window' and then choose the boxes you want up.

[apoctriforce]

I accidentally closed the color all the boxes, how do i get them back?

[ozwalled2007]

Yeah, if you select Window/ Color that should bring your palette window up again.

[apoctriforce]

okay it works now, thx.

[nodokalover101]

ok im having problems opening my skintones to use

[ozwalled2007]

What have you done so far, and whee are you getting hung up?

[LightByGrace]

You're awesome for doing these! Thanks!!

[XhipsterXx]

it whont let me pick up colors with the thing y whont it???

[HotAnimeFreak]

Wow thses vidoes really helped me.

I liked the pictur eof Ed you had xD

As you can tell I'm a big AnimeFan and I do like to edit pictures.

I was wondering how do you use it to edit liked the hair and stuff.

I can't seem t figure it out =/

[onephotographyangel]

oswald. haha. jk.

[ozwalled2007]

I'm not sure I'm seeing the joke, but okay. :)

[tariktesera]

very good tutorial ... thankks so much !

[myinfomedium]

Grazie! Grazie! Grazie!

[Foldor13]

Very helpful, many thanks

[dderr345]

GO CANADA

[HJSDGCE]

how do you make shadows to your drawing

[sugarqueen98]

thanks so much! this helped me alot ^^

[o0uochan0o]

how do ou change opacity of a colour

[ozwalled2007]

There's sort of two ways:

The real way is to click the MORE button in your Colors window, and pull the Alpha-Transparency slider to the left.

What you can do as well though, is change transparency through your Layer window by double-clicking the appropriate layer, and sliding the Opacity slider to the left. DO NOTE that this will effect the opacity of the ENTIRE LAYER.

[ozwalled2007]

select Window/ Colors, or F8.

[BOOMz1029]

yea i need to know how to get my color wheel back please help!

[ozwalled2007]

select Window/ Colors, or F8.

[HariPranavGargi]

Coooooooooooooooooooool!!!!!!!­!!!!111

[Garrot10]

Your voice is really good :)

[Blackblaxs]

HOW DO YOU PUT TO PICS TOGETHER

[ozwalled2007]

The short answer is that you'll open both images, copy one of them (Ctrl+A to select all, then Ctrl+C to copy), select the other image, create a new layer, and press Ctrl+V to paste the copied image into the new layer.

You may need to do some cropping, or erasing, or resizing, or other things to achieve the effects you desire, however.

[Azermyth]

Good job man!

[bluedooke]

its hard to explain but can you do a tutorial on how to change drastically the colours on images in block colours etc making it look very 80s and retro is that possible ??

[izun60]

it looks nice, but what about using tablet? can i use it with this program?

[ozwalled2007]

You can use a Wacom tablet, for sure, but you will NOT have pen pressure sensitivity enabled, unless you're working with Vista (so I'm told).

As for other tablet brands, I'm not sure if they work with it, but I would guess that they should work (though without the pressure sensitivity).

[nickkrejci]

what download did you use because you can download from 3 choices or does it matter?also does it have a desktop icon because i don't want to get in trouble for downloading something on my moms computer :P

[ozwalled2007]

The three choices on the official download page found via the link in the video information are mirror links, which all lead to the same file to download.

I'm pretty sure you have the option of having a desktop icon or not, but ultimately, ask your mother if you can download this. I can assure you that if you download it from the right place that it's a fairly small program and that it contains no virus, spyware or malware.

[nickkrejci]

ok thanks

[Hoshi4Hikaru]

:D thanks so much your tutorials don't make me want to fall asleep, and I really learned alot ^_^

[SonicSilverShadowJam]

Thank you for this. I enjoyed learning about the palettes and I can assure I learned a valuable lesson for my drawings =D

[JJzFan]

Very helpful tutorial serious. I'm a scrapbooker and my problem is with layers. When I try to add a second layer (that is intended to take up a quarter or so of the scrapbook page), it seems to completely take over the first layer. What do I do? Thanks so much!

[ozwalled2007]

I'm not QUITE sure I fully understand your question, but I'll take a stab at it anyway. If I'm way off, feel free to rephrase it and ask again.

When you create a new layer, it will be the same size as the biggest layer you have, which is the same as the canvas size. It will be transparent.

When you add an opaque graphic to the new layer, however, that graphic can take up as little or as much of that canvas space as you like, with the rest of the layer being transparent. See next comment too.

[ozwalled2007]

If you copied and pasted a graphic to your new layer and it was previously larger than your canvas or the same size, it will take up the entire new layer, yes. What you may want to do is resize your image before you paste it to the new layer, OR use the Move Selected Pixels tool on your new layer and drag the image a speck then drag (while holding shift to maintain aspect ratio) the corner nodes to manually resize the new layer image.

Hope that helps. If not, feel free to ask again. :)

[JJzFan]

Let's try again.  I'm actually working on a blog background at the moment. The first step I did was to 'import image from file'. I sized it to 14.5 inches wide and 11 inches tall. Then I clicked on 'add new layer' and imported a second image from file. Rezied 2nd layer to be 7.5 inches wide, but comes up HUGE and my initial background is now 2x2 and I can't get it back to the orig size. Sorry to be difficult!! Any 'f'ree blog background' shows what I want as a final prod. Thanks!

[JJzFan]

Hey Ozwalled, I'm feeling like a rock star!! I somehow figured it out!! WOOHOO!!!! :) Don't ask, because I'm not really sure and my fingers are crossed that I can do it again. Thanks for sharing your knowledge and for being very patient! Have a wonderful weekend! :)

[masusenok]

greyish-green - the colour of my eyes

[yumixuchiha]

I hate de tutorial\__/

[AmberMariaHodge]

lol you keep saying ntch

[edk156]

How do you round the corners of a pic? Also put a shadow behind a pic but not the whole pic? This is the second request. Thanks

[donxavier11]

can I make a template??

[ozwalled2007]

To keep a colour you add to the palette, you have to save your new palette. There's a button in the Colors window that looks like a folder. Click that, then "Save Palette As."

[jakie15]

Does your color that you placed on the color palate stay on the color palate when/if you close your art that you are working on??

[SaigoAnchuu]

I haven't tried it but just open a dud document and experiment.

[nixaten]

Good instructions, but your voice is a bit annoying no offense xD.

[onemanarmy675]

most peoples voice sounds weird in the mic lol

[HanobiShoniUchiha111]

YAY YAY YAY YAY YAY!

[HanobiShoniUchiha111]

When It Says Download For Free Now Does That Mean Its Free?

[ozwalled2007]

It is indeed free.

[htsk91]

lol.....the blue color turned into purple....funny

[swooshbball]

how does recolor work?

[mush7221]

how do you get the screen not all bulrrywhen you closeup?

[Geheim753]

a lot of ish

don't you think?

like the tutorials!