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Published: 2005-09-02 19:13:24 +0000 UTC; Views: 5892; Favourites: 111; Downloads: 321
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The links I promised:A good all-round tutorial . Many thanks to =meihua for pointing it out to me. :-] I actually intended to post a link to a whole page full of tutorial links, which used to reside in one of ~Elemnar 's journals, but no longer. :-[
Yuliya's MS Paint Tutorial . By ~yuliya , you know. I'm sure she'll appreciate all the glory and worship you must wish to pile upon her by now. Sort of. o.O
An online .gif optimiser .
And the deviations I featured:
Scribble of Eye by =meihua
Ghosts by ~showghost
Molly Cuddle by ~hannahjap
If you have nice things to say about those, PLEASE FOR GOSH SAKE COMMENT on their deviations. Not here. I'm not passing any messages on for you.
PS. How do I make a preview image show up?! o.o
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Aw, you're welcome. ^-^ I see you've joined dA just recently - I hope you enjoy it here!
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um i learnd nothin i have to look at this again a nother day
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Excellent. >D
I see you've just joined dA recently - welcome, and enjoy.
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Also, here's another tip I learned from experience - for the pixelers out there who don't want a smooth antialiased gradient on their pixeled sprite/image:
1. Save your not-yet-started blank image as a .gif
2. Finish your picture using .gif-ified colors
3. Save it as .gif.
4. Copy/Paste or Export it into another graphics-program(that allows automatic gradients) and create your gradient.
5. Copy/Paste or Export it back into MS Paint (or not, depending on if your program does what MS Paint does when saving as .gif)
6. Save as .gif
And voila! You've got a pixeled gradient on your image with nearly no effort at all.
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OHHHHHH! THAAAAAT'S why my pixel art looks crappy... the dots! Now I can fix this! Thank you *so* much!
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You're welcome, I'm glad to be of service (despite what I say at the bottom of the deviation).
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Oh gawd, I'm really confused right nao!!! ( <---- Total opposite )
also, thanks a lot for this...
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No problem - though a quick flick through your gallery doesn't suggest that you really need this at all. ;-]
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my paint lets me make the eraser or the paint brush even bigger by selecting them and then using Ctrl and + or to make smaller Ctrl and - at the same time
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That's a neat trick! It doesn't work on my version of Paint, though. :-[
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I could see all the dots in the GIF when you zoomed out O.o Do I have like superhuman eyes or something?
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I guess I didn't make it clear enough - my point was that whoever designed the GIF compression dealie with the dots is very silly to think that it would look any good, because the dots are quite clear (and ugly) even when zoomed out.
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Thanks! That's the best compliment I could've hoped for... emoticon included.
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Lol well glad I fulfilled your dreams. Well, you know what I mean
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I don't get it. D: The GIF color stuff. Is... Is the palette supposed to appear like that when we go to 'Colors>Edit Colors'? OTL I feel like such a noob, having to ask this.
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No, it doesn't appear like that - what I did was I saved a blank image as a gif, then I took a screenprint of the palette (which appears normal) and pasted it into the blank gif image (which then makes the screenprint of the palette appear weird) - I'm sorry I didn't make that clear above. I was trying to show what colours truly exist in the gif palette as opposed to what Paint wants you to believe exist, and I guess I failed to get the point across first time round; please don't feel like a noob. ^-^;
And recently I discovered that this trick doesn't work on microsoft 7's version of Paint - I pasted stuff that had flat blocks of colour into a gif image, and it didn't change the colours - in older versions, the colours change as soon as you paste an image into an already-saved gif. But now, nothing happens until you save it, and then Paint goes dotty on you. I'm so frustrated - I can't circumvent the dottiness any more!
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Ohh~ I see, thank you. ^^
owo I believe I have a 2003 version of Microsoft, so it's not a problem on my computer.
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Lucky you! All these 'updates' these days, they're all a con. =/
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Utterly unhelpful, don't worry. 
That's a very shiny not-tutorial and I enjoyed looking at it very much.
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Definately not, it looked great. ^^
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bah you're amazing.
also, GRR @ mspaint jpegs!!! I gotta try that gif trick sometime.
here's another mspaint tutorial: [link]
and a crazy mspaint piece (albeit with some post processing in photoshop).. have i showed you this before? [link]
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Thanks. ^-^
Thanks for the link too. I never actually knew about the stretch/skew stuff. |D
Oh, and damn previewlessness. ._.
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Oh yeah.. they took off the preview image capability a while ago because people kept uploading porn under innocent previews. It only works for .gif, .zip, and other such files now.
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this helps a lot XDD I am a poor person who can only afford a scanner and paper (and ink pens >>
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oh sure, no skill... I AM GOING TO KILL YOU SUSAN!!!!!
not really... maybe...
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ooooo handy
(make text bold by typing: < strong > blabla (without the spaces))
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Can't you do < b >gasdgjalk< /b > for bold? Again without the spaces, insert 'i' for each 'b' for italics. I dunno if underline would work. I'll try it. With a 'u' instead would work... It does!
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really? coolimus. 
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I think basic html like bold italics and underline work. I tried changing the size of text in my journal but it didn't work. The great thing about journals, unlike the rest of deviantART is that you can edit your comments!
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Alrighty, I'll put that one up when I finish the guild webpage.
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Thanks for being so understanding.
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