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Add ART to
your Stationary, html document, Web Pages. Check
out Line Art
Catalog
I'm assuming you took 15 minutes to review
the previous lesson on how MS Paint and it's tools work. If not, Click
Here and review and come back and go through the edit process
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Copied
image from the web to edit out just the sprig of
Holly. Click Here for
web Copy instructions.
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Open
MS Paint
Menu "File" select
"Open"
Dialog
box, found Art Folder but needed to change
"Files of type:" to gif file
highlighted here to find. I could have
chosen "All Files" but knew it
was a gif. Select "Open" Puts in
MS Paint program. |
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I selected the Rectangle Selection Tool
and drew a box around the sprig of holly |
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Next I selected menu "Edit", "Copy"
which put the rectangle selected image on the
clipboard.
Next I selected menu
"File", "New", and
"No"
I did not want to save the previous image when
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With new canvas, menu "Edit",
"Paste" which takes the
copied image on the clipboard and pastes
it on the
new canvas. |
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Select Magnify Glass and enlarged 8 times
size. Now you can see the individual pixels and
their colors. |
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Selected Fill Tool (Paint Bucket) making
sure my foreground color is white and began
filling the blue line with white. Make a mistake
here, select "Undo". Next I
selected Rectangle Selection Tool and
drew a box around the circled R. Making
sure my background color is white, I pressed
key "Delete" which replaces anything
in the box with the background color. I repeated
the same process with the black image on the
left side that I didn't want. Note: right
below the blue line which is now white, is some
shadowing with a white line. Take Eyedropper
Tool and place over a shadow color pixel and click left mouse button. The
foreground color is now changed to the shadow
color. Select Brush Tool, select smallest
round size in gray area indent which is
located in the first row, right side. With Brush
Tool that looks like cross hair cursor fill
pixels with shadow color one pixel at a time and
try to duplicate the shadow that should be
there. Save under different name. The image
should look like this: Not perfect, but when
reduced, you have a hard time seeing the
difference. The major difference comes when this
program saves this as a gif file. Some
color shifting but may be satisfactory to you.
See finished product below. Want a better
program, be prepared to spend $400 for Adobe
Photoshop. The image looks a lot better now,
doesn't it? I think PaintShop Pro is about
$65 and can be downloaded off the web. |
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If the background, your are going to paste this
image on, is white, you're done. However,
you may want the background to be transparent so
this will lay over any background without
showing the white canvas. Transparency is
accomplished by selecting one color that you can
make transparent. In this case white will
be chosen, making sure that the remaining image
does not have white in it that would leave holes
in a transparency. Review the image and
change any white with a little off white color
will avoid holes. |
Transparency
feature in Windows 98 MS Paint. Windows
95:
Download MSPaint 98 Click Here if you want
Transparency.
Suggest upgrading to Windows 98
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Transparency Process: Menu,
"Images" and then select
"Attributes" will give you this
form.
1. Check "Use Transparent background
color"
2. Click "Select Color" will
give you a color chart. Select white,
click "OK" on chart, Click
"OK" on attributes form. Note:
you can only make one color transparent.
Note:
other information, Width and Height in
number of pixels, and size of this image
file.
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resize the canvas to fit image and then
"Save" and name file. |
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image without Transparency: |
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With
Transparency: |
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Let's
understand background art and create and copy
simple backgrounds. Click
Here
Click Here
for instructions to copy and save art.
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