Three hearty cheers for Tony! Hip-Hip..... Hooray!(X3)

Now all that's left for me is to play around with it and see what it can do!

Cheers!

Neil.

Hi, Tony!

As expected, I wanted to "play around" with this new "toy"(er... yeah!) but could not for the life of me work out how to get that chequered backdrop to appear. A quick look at your clip gave that answer inside the first minute of the clip.

Cheers!

Neil.

After I've answered another post, I'm off to play around some more with Paint.Net

Hello, Tony!

I might've been a bit too hasty in the Cheers department(no offence) but after several attempts to create a transparent background PNG file for an icon(cartoon steam loco, currently a bitmap image), I'm no closer now to creating such than I was before I downloaded and installed Paint.Net. Am I missing something here? Do I need to start with an image file that is already PNG? What am I doing wrong? Maybe I should just give up and stick with Bitmaps, chroma-keying out the white background like I've always done. This PNG process really is infuriating me!

Neil.

Update:- Just successfully downloaded and installed GIMP and will give it a whirl to see if it's easier to use and get the result I'm after. Will keep you "posted"(ha-ha).

Hi Tony!

Me again!(you're probably sick of this by now - don't blame you!), but I knew there was something I was missing. A third view of your tutorial brought it home to me, I forgot to click Delete. Hmmmm.... There's so much to learn here and it will take me a while to get my head around it all. The image I was working on was that of a cartoon steam loco. GIMP proved far more complex than Paint.Net and will involve a far steeper learning curve. Hopefully I'll get this right and have some degree of expertise when another post like that from GoodGuy309 crosses our paths again.

Cheers!

Neil.