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Offline GarvinTheGreat

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paint.net won't work!
« on: April 28, 2012, 11:30:23 AM »
I was using paint.net to make a skin for my robot. I copy and pasted an image to the side of the robot. Now I want to paint on the rest of the robot, but it won't work! After I pasted the image all the tools won't do anything. What am I doing wrong?

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Re: paint.net won't work!
« Reply #1 on: April 28, 2012, 11:41:39 AM »
Decals must be either .bmp or .tga files, uncompressed (12 or 16 kb, I don't remember). Skins must be .bmp files, but the Decals, Edges, Surface things ONLY WORK ON 256x256 BMP FILES. That is a critical thing to remember if you ever want to improve the resolution of your bot skins.

Either that, or if you're actually using Paint.NET, you need to be sure you're working isn't being obscured by any layers above it. For instance, if you have a pure black layer on top of a pure white layer, any work you do on the white layer won't be seen until you uncheck the checkbox beside the pure black layer. That effectively makes it invisible, and you can see what's underneath it.
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Re: paint.net won't work!
« Reply #2 on: April 28, 2012, 11:43:13 AM »
How do I see what layers I have up so I can delete them?

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Re: paint.net won't work!
« Reply #3 on: April 28, 2012, 11:45:10 AM »
Under the "Window" tab, there is an option called Layers.
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Re: paint.net won't work!
« Reply #4 on: April 28, 2012, 11:46:22 AM »
I only have one layer up.

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Re: paint.net won't work!
« Reply #5 on: April 28, 2012, 11:47:02 AM »
You don't want to delete them, just make them unseen in the work area. F7 brings up and removes the Layers tab. F5 is Tools, F6 is History (What you've done to the image), and F8 is Colours.
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