Not a lot of people realize that you can do color replacement in MsPaint, which is understandable seeing as how there's no tool for it ...or is there?

Here's how it work's: Whatever color you have set to your left mouse button can be replaced with the right mouse button color by using the eraser. Just click the eraser tool,hold down the right mouse button and pass it over the color you want to change(the one set to your left mouse button color) and your done.

If anyone need's me to show an example I will, just to lazy to do one if I really don't have to.

that's nice

those loyal MSpaint users may enjoy this

thanks for the info.

regards
teej

Another trick in paint:

If you click the highlight part of the border under 8x, you can zoom in further than 8x!

Using this technique is great.

I used it on the large pixeled girl I did I while ago. I draw the stick form, then the body blocks, then flesh it in, then make the line art. And all do them different colors so I can erase them after words with this tool once the lineart is done.

Also is good for when you want to darken the shading on a bunch of sprites.

Odd, seem's more like a bug ...but it work's so...

Thanks for that hint... I got nothin to pixel in besides paint! My other programs aren't very good for this kind of stuff. Anyways... I am assuming you then got the zoom in thing to work MadDawg. I cant remember if you did r not!

MS paint rocks for pixel art! photoshops got too many features that you dont need + its FREAKIN EXPENSIVE! hmmm....for da mac users i dont know what to say.

That extra zoom is a hidden
easter egg.
You'll zoom in 10x.

The zoom thing isent working for me :huh:

just go 1! pixel below...its harder on higher resolutions trust me (1152 x 864)

Hey Polar Productions, google "Graphicsgale" or "Paint dot net". Both are free and have many of photoshops extra feature's.

Heh... I already started d/l'ing graphicsgale before I read ur post! Thanks tho.

another thing you can do is hit ctrl + g, then zoom in to x8 and itll show a grid

thanks for that x10 zoom
it's pretty cool :D

*cough*Gimp*cough* >_> :P

Yeah, I'm a GIMP user, and btw it pwns.

www.GIMP.org :D

YES YES YES I LOVE YOU

Yeah, I don't like the grid much. I don't use the eraser trick often, or the regular eraser for that matter. It's just pencil for me. And 10x zoom is a very nice touch.

Neato. They all worked for me. And you only have to zoom in x6 to get a grid.

OH MY GOD! YOUR RIGHT.... seriously paint should have a better help file, one that atually tells you all this, most the stuff in paint you have to work out for your self (or have nice people tell you like this :) )
its just like the hole drawing a perfect square, or a perfect circle, or a perfectly drawn line... having to hold down the shift button.. it took me months to relise that! .... lol.

also a odd... cool... put almost pointless feture... daw somthing simple (maby a bendy line) use the select tool and select it... not turn transparncy on.. do the white bakcgourn goes... then hold down shift and move it wile selected... it moves it... mut makes a trail of the thing you was moving, im sure this could be used for SOMTHING usfull (huh)

its not a useless feature though...what it does is take your selected area and create a brush out of it, allowing you to draw with whatever you please.

Oooh, this is handy. :D Thanks.

Heres pictures. (u can steal them and add them on first post


Heres original picture.


I want red to be yellow so i select the eraser and do this.



Now if you did left click this would happen


With right click doing the same thing.


NOW fill in and viola!


Red is yellow! B-)