Monday, July 17, 2006

The Magic of MSPaint!

Behold,the powerful or rather an uncommon software which can be found in every compter(That runs on Windows only) which is MicrosoftPaint or MSPaint as we like to call it.You can do many things with this program.Make Pixel art,Okaki art,random doodles,text art and even edit some pictures(Although it is not advisible cause it is very difficult).For years,people have been using MSPaint to create pixelated pictues whether in 8 bits or 16 bits or even 32 bits.For those who love to draw,you can just choose the pencil tool and brush tool to draw.We shall take a look at how we can make a simple circle into a sphere with shadow!

First open a MSPaint.The program starts off with a new canvas.Click on the Ellipse tool and draw a thin black circle.(Be sure to choose your colour on the colour palette before drawing the circle)



Then,select the paint bucket and choose a colour.For mine,it's light blue.

Select the elipse tool once again but this time,choose the filled colour with no line option at the option bar of the elipstool.choose the colour black.The draw and oval beside the blue circle but not too close to the blue circle.

Now select the Select tool which is at the top right corner of the tool of the tool box and click and drag to select the entire blue circle.

Then drag the blue circle ontop of the black one.(Be sure to select the overlap colours option so that the white colour will not be chosen )




Violah!Your sphere with shadow is finish!But wait,the circle looks oddly flat.It doesn't look 3D.Not to matter.We shall now do some toning.Select the curve tool and make sure that the colour is dark blue.The select the most thickest line on the line options.The click and drag down on the circle itself.


Then click and drag the blue line to the right to form a curve.It may not need be a perfect curve.


The select the paint bucket tool and click on the right side of the circle.

Now it really looks 3D .But if you really want it to look more 3D,you can add in different tones and brightness of colours.It's as simpleas this one.This is a simple demostration of what you can do with MSPaint.


The blue sphere is easy but making the blue cube is kinda hard.Well not really.It's easy too.

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