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The goal of this hop is for everyone to gain new RSS readers! You will also be able to keep up with great new blogs without overloading you email! Here are a few simple rules:
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How to Add Layers in Paint.net {Tutorial from Maria @ Agape Designs}

I had posted a blog asking someone to help me with paint. I couldn’t figure out how to use the layers like I did in Gimp. The most amazing and kind person responded with help..
“who could this be?” You ask
Maria from Agape Designs. She went above and beyond to help me out.  About Maria:


How did she help me out so much??
She wrote me a whole entire tutorial to show me how to do it. She didn’t have to do that. She didn’t have to go out of her way to help me. So I thank her so much (VERY VERY much) I love blogging because I love meeting awesome people that make life so much more amazing by being a true friend, helping out as much as she can.
So Maria- I ♥ you for being awesome and you have a permanent place on my blog..
Here is the tutorial she wrote:

Paint.Net Layers Tutorial for Jess :)

Hey Jess, hope this helps... I did lots of pictures.. cause thats easiest for me to explain! :) I decided to just do a tutorial while make you a siggy.. you will find that at the bottom of the page. Pixel credit goes to Ashley at Reverie Pixels. :)
Once you open up paint.net a blank image will appear.. you will most likely want to resize it to fit what ever it is you want to create. :)
This form will pop up and you can change the size.. you can unclick "maintain aspect ratio" if you want different size or shape.
Moving on to layers:

Pick a font :)
To work in a specific layer.. click on and high lite that layer in the layer box. What ever you do/change will be applied to the blue high lighted layer.
To add something to you image.. simply click FILE in the menu bar, then OPEN and pick what you want to be working with. I opened up a pixel tube. It will open up as its own image, separate from the one you're working on. To add it into the image you're working on DO THE FOLLOWING:
After the image is selected:

You can move the 2 images around to fit it how you desire.. working in separate layers. As you can see layer 3, the image with the pixel tube is selected/high lighted, so I can move that around. If I want to move the writing around.. I would click on layer 2 in the layers box, so I could work on the "made by jess" layer.
Here I added in some mushrooms the same way I added in the pixel girl, in its own separate layer.
I want to cut away the excess area around the siggy, so i select it to fit. (I forgot to show it, but the rectangle select button is next to the point selector in the tools box)

If you think you may want to re design this in the future or make any changes, without having to re-make one.. you would click file, then save as.. and keep it saved as a pdn file.. that way it keeps the layers separate and yu can open it up in paint.net and still make changes. If you are completely done with it and dont think you will make changes then do the following:




And there you have it.. your finished product! :) I hope you like it... I am sure you know how to save this to your computer right? :)  I really hope this helped you. You just said you needed help with layers.. so i wasnt sure exactly what you knew and didnt know.. so just went through it all. LOL If you still need help.. or if I missed anything.. dont be afraid to ask! :)
~Maria Isabel

Yay! I’ve made it! Over 100 followers

When I first started blogging, I knew I wanted to have followers that were also friends. To have people that WANTED to read, not just reading because they think they have to. I am proud to say that I have gained 104 followers in this time, and I happy to have all of you here. I am glad we have met {or have we} if not- You should come join my new linky- (it isn’t up yet) I’m not even sure what day it is going to be on, but I do know that I love getting to know you guys better, so it’s on it’s way with something new to post each week about you. This is also a way for OTHER people to learn about you. If you have a business, this would be great to show people the YOU behind the business (which I ♥)..

But I’ll update that later. I have so much to do today my head is spinning, but it’s a good kind of spinning- not the exorcism kind (although I do feel like that sometimes ☺) But who doesn’t when they have small kids that are handfuls =)

But I am also going to make a button for all of you that I ♥.. that you can place on your blog when I write about you or feature something you do, or just because you are the most awesome followers on the planet♥

gotta love em though =)

But anyway- thanks for being a friend, a follower, and a fellow blog sister.

I love each and everyone of you.

When I had 1 I was SOO excited, and NOW look at me- over 100.

Thanks again

♥ Jess