Help for Paint.NET etc, please

[icosahedron]

Ok, for 'month or two' read 'hour or two'.

I've loaded Gimp and had a play. It doesn't look as scary as I thought. <starts looking for the salt and pepper for those words>.

I imported a picture I'd done previously and within ten minutes or so, I'd succeeded in adding a non-directional drop shadow to it without looking at the Help file. (which is fortunate, cos I haven't found the download for it on the website yet).

I haven't figured out how to draw geometric shapes yet, but I suppose the next step is to do some reading.

This might just work.

I'm likely to be using Gimp every few months myself. It won't be often that I need to create a new mapping element, and I'm doing the map assembly in Viewingdale.