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MS Paint is a free program for the amatuer artists. It doesn't allow much detail. WRONG! Here are some Tips and Tricks that can make your MS Paint look great.

Trick 1:

Custom Cursors

You think that you can only use 1 set of 6 cursors, and they have to be one color at a time. Wrong. This tip shows you how to make your own cursor.

First you draw a square or rectangle. Made of any colors you'd like. Take this for example:

Then you select the rectangle, and hold down shift. Keep holding down shift and click the picture with your mouse. While holding down shift and the left-click, drag it around and see what you can do!


Look what I made =D

Trick #2

Undo

If you mess up drawing and image and you want to undo it, you can? This one most people probably know, but in case you don't here you go.

Say you drawing a banana:

You doing great so far


Still goin' smooth


Now for the finishing touch


Your almost done but you have a spaz attack and the pictures a distaster.


To undo the last move you press ctrl+z then you can try again.

Trick 3

I'm not sure what to call it

Say your drawing a box.


And you decide you want to change the outline to yellow. But the diagnol lines are all tiny pixels that aren't completely connected. So you have to zoom in to x8 and fill each one seperately. Wrong. There is a way to change just the black very easily. Left-click black, and right-click yellow. Then click the eraser tool. Hold down the right click and just scribble all of the black lines. In about 5-10 seconds you get this:


This works with any situation. The left click color is the color you want to erase, and the right click is the color to replace it. Then you just use the eraser while holding down the right click.

Tip #4

Grid

A lot of time you draw pictures with lots of detail, and its hard to line up the pixels right. Unless you have the grid on. If you zoom in to x6 or x8, you can use the grid. All you do is press ctrl+G.

Then it looks like this (Click for full-size)