1. Design a CD cover Use Paint.net to design a suitable cover for these songs: Au Clair de la Lune Sur le Pont d’Avignon Use layers Insert images in separate layers Insert text in separate layer(s)

2. Measure the INTERNAL size in centimetres. Start Use the menu bar: Image > Canvas size. Set the resolution to 200 pixels/inch Then the width and height to your measurements in centimetres.

3. Make sure that the palettes are all open. If not go to the menu bar > Window And select Tools, History, Layers, Colours (if your screen is too cluttered, they can be turned on and off as you need them). Tools palette History palette Layers palette Colours palette

4. Save the file - make sure that you know where it is saved!! Then keep saving it regularly!!

5. Open the folder containing the pictures and select thumbnail view. Drag an image icon into your Paint.NET canvas. Add into layer.

6. After dragging in a picture you will see that it has created a new layer Choose the move selected pixels tool. When you click over a control point on the picture, you can change the shape and size of the picture (hold shift down at the same time to avoid distorting it).

7. Add a new layer. If there is an area selected, then deselect it (Ctrl + D). Choose the Text tool and type title for your CD. You can choose style using the tool bar and colours from the palette.

8. Rotating the contents of a layer (text or manage).

9. Experiment with more layers, and some of the other tools. Don’t forget to keep saving your work, and making use of the History palette. When you have finished, save the file, then flatten it so that there is just one layer. Select all (Ctrl + A), copy (CTRL + C). You don’t need to save the flattened image.

10. CD image downloaded from: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cd_case.svghttp://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cd_case.svg by Kenny.r Open a new Word document. Paste your image into it (Ctrl + V). Select the picture and Format. Re-size to your original measurements, save and print. Graham Dean, BwD eLearning Service, December 2010

11. Select a rectangular area Lasso select an irregular area Select a circular or elliptical area Magic wand – selects areas of a similar colour – note tolerance slider in tool bar (0=exact same colour) Paint bucket – flood fills the selected area Brush (note if an area is selected it will only paint in the selected area) Pencil tool Clone tool – hold down Ctrl+left click to select a point to copy from. Then just left click to paint. Text tool (useful to add text to a new layer) Outline shape tools – shape is drawn in current foreground colour with currently selected brush width. Shapes can be filled with the paint bucket. Toolbar (left hand side and bottom)

12. Move the selected pixels (think of it as cutting and pasting in one action) Edit the size of the selected area Zoom Pan (only useful if the canvas is larger than the window) Gradient tool (really useful for gradual colour and/or transparency changes – but needs quite a bit of experimenting with) Eraser (if an area is selected, it only works on the selection) Colour picker (move the dropper over a colour and it sets this as the foreground colour) Recolour - ???? Line tool (draws a straight line with control points, so that it can be curved) Toolbar (right hand)

13. Foreground colour Background colour Colour palette Swap foreground colour and background colour Reset foreground colour to black and background colour to white Level of transparency/opacity