Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts Log In Sign Up User account menu 48 Followed a Bob Ross tutorial on MS Paint, heres how it turned out.

Because it doesnt make use of anti-aliasing and special filters, it can be used quite effectively for pixel art and is a good program to begin pixelling with.

The big white area in the middle is your Canvas and its where youll be pixelling.

You have your File menu at the top to allow you to edit and save your work, your Drawing tools are on the left and your Palette of colours at the bottom.

The others you can just play around with to see what they do.

To change your secondary colour, right click on the colour you want to use.

So, to pick and choose your own colours, go up to the Colours Menu at the top and click on the only option; Edit Colours.

I would suggest not changing the colours black and white, because theyre pretty commonly used; Once youve found the general colour you want, you can adjust the brightness by sliding the arrow at the right, then add it to your custom colours.

A dialog box will pop up so you can pick where you want to save your file and what you want to save it as.

When saving in Paint, NEVER save as a GIF or JPG (it screws it up terribly).

Your photo will be uploaded to Paint, and your Paint canvas should resize to fit the photo.

Microsoft Paint is a classic Windows program that has survived the transition to Windows 10.

In the Start menu, look for the Paint app icon, which resembles a paint palette with paint on it.

Click any color in the palette thats in the top-right side of the Paint window to apply it to the Color 1 box.

This is the color that youll use when using the left mouse button on the canvas.

Click the Color 2 box to the left of the color palette, then click the color youd like to use as your secondary color.

Youll activate this color by using the right mouse button on the canvas.

Click the Brushes option at the top of the Paint window, then click the type of brush tip you want to use.

This is what affects the line size, shape, and width options.

Click the Size option to the left of the color palette, then click the line thickness you want to use while drawing.

Holding down the left mouse button while dragging will draw your line.

Click the Fill with color tool, which resembles a paint bucket, in the Tools section, then click the canvas to change an entire section of it to your primary color (you can right-click to use your secondary color instead).

If you want to fill the shape with a color rather than just drawing the outline of the shape, click the Color 2 box and then click the color you want to use for the fill color.

In the Shapes section of the toolbar, scroll up or down to see all of the available shapes.

Click Size, then click the line thickness you want to use in the resulting drop-down menu.

If you selected a Fill color, you can add the Fill option to your shape: click Fill, then click Solid color.

Find the place on your canvas in which you want to place the text, then click the place in question.

Click the number below the font name, then click the number you want to use for your font.

If you want to bold, italicize, andor underline your text, click the B, I, andor U button(s) in the Font section of the toolbar.

Since you adjusted the default font and size, you may need to enlarge the text box.

You can do this by placing your mouse cursor over one of the corners of the text box and then dragging diagonally away from the text boxs center.

If you dont want your text to sit on whatever background items are on your canvas, click Opaque in the Background section of the toolbar.

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