If I have a 800 x 600 96 canvas open and I want to put say a 1440 x 990 300 drawing on a wall or table as a framed picture, well, I open the 1440 x 990 JPEG or PNG drawing (my current drawing is still open)Īnd I resize 'Drawing' not 'Canvas'. The key I have found, and this is just my own way of doing this, I'm not claiming to be a pro or anything, is to resize the image you want to import first. Paint.Net is preset to 96 dpi unless you change that first layer thru the commands to something higher. I have been somewhat successful at shrinking files by opening the file with Paint.Net, reducing window screen to say 15%, taking snapshot & saving file as new file. You can take snapshot of graphic at full screen & save as new file but I have not been totally successful at times. I have not found a total solution to this problem yet but am working on it. It distorts the less quality files (ones that are already set at say 100 dpi). If you stretch or shrink graphics with your mouse, it will make your print outs blurry.Ĭhanging the dpi's all to the same 300 dpi as a example, does not work either I found out if you are going to print the file later. To help with this situation create you first layer with the same dpi as what you are going to import. You need to crop what you are trying to import but if the dpi's don't match, are the same, your imported file will still be too large for what you started with. Sometimes Paint.Net ask me if I want to increase the present canvas size but not always.

I am experiencing this problem right now. The actual frame size is bigger than your first layer you created. Your imported file is set at a larger dpi. One reason for this is your first layer is set at 96 dpi.

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