[WillowTheWhisp]

Originally Posted by WillowTheWhisp

Now start a new image (click on "File" and select "New")and if it's large you'll need to shrink it by clicking on "Image" and from the drop down menu select "stretch and skew" In the top half there reduce the horizontal and the vertical to "10"

It looks like this is the bit which isn't very clear so I'll try to explain it better.

When you open a new blank canvas you see a blank screen which more often than not is the same size as your "paint" window so you may not actually realise that this is a canvas which can be shrunk or enlarged. You need to make this blank bit smaller than the image you are going to paste before you actually do the pasting. You could correct it afterwards but that's messier and harder to explain than this!

So once you've got your paint window with a diddy white canvas up the top left corner then you can paste the image in it.

You shrink it by clicking on image and from the drop down menu select "stretch and skew" and then reduce the horizontal and the vertical dimensions in the top half of the box.