Drop Shadow effect

Alright, so last night I defrag'ed. Today, I fixed the files with errors (deleting them after copying them onto my external harddrive). It fixed the problem with the freezing (I think) on Paint.Net, but it is still SUPER slow. Too slow to work with. I went and got dressed while I waited for it to undo my last 5 actions in the history!

While I am giving this a chance and doing my best to make it work, I'm not sure how long as a beginner I'm going to give this! I'll read some on the Paint.Net website and see what I can find out - maybe my computer is too old...

I'm really anxious to learn how to do drop shadows though, so here's the tutorial I'm studying on that: Tutorial on Drop Shadows

...see how it has kind of a 3D look to it?

That's the image with a drop shadow, in the tutorial he'll show us how to make that effect!

Here's a download to automate some of the steps, forum topic here, download here. That is said as if I knew what I was talking about :) ...I don't. heheh.

There's a simpler tutorial here by Thomas Brennan on wikiHow. And yet another tutorial that is probably easy for smart people to understand, but I felt kinda lost reading it :S and you know what that says about me...