MS Paint Tips

[Vipershark]

Originally Posted by jc84144 from the Game Maker Community Forums,Jan 8 2007, 01:35 PM

1) If you zoom in X8 and press ctrl+g it turns on a grid. Useful for fine touch ups.

2) If you hold shift wile drawing a line, it draws it perfectly straight. You can also use this feature to draw 45 degree angles, just lift the mouse cursor up more as you draw the line.

3) If you hold shift while drawing a circle/square it makes a perfect circle/square

4) If you select something with the select tool, then turn on transparency (below the zoom option) then hold down shift (do this before even clicking the object to move it. And then move it, it leave a trail of what you were moving behind (almost no use, but fun to do, this feature is used to make a custom "brush")

5) When you press the zoom icon, it brings up the zoom amounts, click 1 pixel below the X8 and it zooms in x10! (this can be hard to do, but very VERY rewarding when working on fine pixel art)

6) Pressing the right mouse button while drawing will draw with the color assigned to the right mouse button (to select a right mouse colour: right click on a color)

7) If you select something, then press and hole ctrl and move it, it clones it with out having to copy and paste

8) Turning on transparency will make the color that is assigned to the right mouse disappear when moving something with the select tool.

9) "Right clicking with the eraser: Turns all pixels that you hover over with the selected left color into the selected right colour. Useful for recoloring. " - HellShade

10) Want a bigger brush? There is not size limit! Turn number lock on, selet you brush, hold Ctl and press the + or - on the number pad, this is will increas or decreas the size of your bursh, works with any bursh and there is not size limit. (can be used with the pencil tool, select tool, airbrush, rubber and line tool.)
(I advise NOT to use this with the pencil tool, becuase when you undo it doesnt seem to get rif of all of it, but i have found no problem with the paintbrush or airbrush)

11) Wile drawing with anytool, if you decide you dont like what you have created, and have not let go of the left mouse button, press the right mouse button and it will delet it, with out using up one of the Undo's.

12) When zoomed in, to see a zoomed out version of what your working on, go to view> zoom> show thumbnail (or ctl+F)
Great to see what it looks like zoomed out, without having to zoom out.

13) Wile zoomed in, click view>view bitmap and it will show you your picture at normall zoom in full screen, then just press any button and it takes you strait back to your zoom.

14) to zoom in 4x (400%), click view>zoom> custom then click 400%. Normally when choosing an option under the magnifier it only lets you zoom, 100%, 200%, 600% and 800%. (for 10x zoom (1000% use tip #5)

15) If you want to Undo with out having to click edit> undo just press ctl+z
"while using the selection tool, ctrl+x is Cut, ctrl+c is Copy, and ctrl+v is Paste."
-Snake Logan

16) If you select somthing with the select tool, turn number lock on, and hold ctl and press + or - on the keypad, it will increas or decreas the size perfectly!

17) Increas the airbrush size: (simular to step 10) sleet the airbrush, turn on number lock, hole ctl and press + or - on the number pad to increas or decreas the paintbrush size. (very handy if trying to do effects like stars)
(try doing this with one hand, using the right ctl button, wile moving it, and it adds and intresting effect)
(I advise NOT to use this with the pencil tool, becuase when you undo it doesnt seem to get rif of all of it, but i have found no problem with the paintbrush or airbrush)

18) To create these effects, use tip #17 with the airbrush


-pictures made by r1k

19)hold ctrl while selecting a colour. Then when you draw hold ctrl and left-click to get the colour. (This means you can draw with 3 differnt colours with out having to chaneg colour, by choosing a colour for the left mouse button, right mouse button, and ctl button.)

20) To pixelate somthing, simple select it, resize it to make it smaller, then resize it back to its orriginal size. The smaller you made it the more pixely it will be. Try using tip #16 to help resize it perfectly.

List Still growing.

Thanks to:
cleefy
Shadow Link
LegacyCrono
HellShade
r1k
hasser
iceflame1019
Snake Logan

I know lots of you will know most of these tips, but i hope some of you will learn somthing new.

More tips welcome!

Thanks for reading ^_^

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Pretty helpful stuff, huh? Good for spriting.

[RocKer]

so thats how some people do it... Very helpful

[~Felly~]

You can also make images with multiple pictures. I have step-by-step instructions.

1. Open the picture you wish to use.
2. Go to Edit -> Paste From...
3. Resize the new image however you like.

It's pretty easy. You can also do more than just one extra image.