which tool/s to to create an elliptical frame that I can pick up and paste would be sufficient to get me going.
I have a photo picture which I made 'elliptical'. You can see I have tried to make it elliptical using Word but the edges are messy (see attachment).
trying put create text (or text saved as an image) in a distorted arch shape over top of an oval shaped image.
want text start as larger contract towards the middle and expand to the end.
all text flat on top and the curving would be along the bottom (to go over the oval shaped image).
[might also eventually want to make something similar (shape upside down of this one) to go along bottom of oval image.]
text would be in this bridge shape below:
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i have just downloaded a trial version of Paint Shop Pro X6 because I'm looking for a program that will go a good job on oval vignettes with soft (feathered) edges.
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[URL] how to fade the edges in the way I want to, I can fade them one by one in each layer and then select all, but the result is very unsymmetrical, and the fade effect starts to late and it's in too much quantity.
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I have attached a sample of one edge.
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How can I avoid this with Paint.NET?