# My first mspaint pixelly picture
**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/my-first-mspaint-pixelly-picture/26434
**Category:** Uncategorized
**Created:** [July 23, 2003, 2:45am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/my-first-mspaint-pixelly-picture/26434 "2003-07-23T02:45:32Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 23, 2003, 7:28pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/my-first-mspaint-pixelly-picture/26434/21 "2003-07-23T19:28:31Z")
lol soul. someone has patience, but i wont point anyfingers
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 23, 2003, 7:31pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/my-first-mspaint-pixelly-picture/26434/22 "2003-07-23T19:31:36Z")
It’s rude to point 😉
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 23, 2003, 10:07pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/my-first-mspaint-pixelly-picture/26434/23 "2003-07-23T22:07:52Z")
hey soul just wondering what approach you took to that pic?
did you use an image or anyhting as a guide? or just start off with a blank canvas?
I want to attempt to make a bigger picture and am going to try it in ps this time…
🙂
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 23, 2003, 10:10pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/my-first-mspaint-pixelly-picture/26434/24 "2003-07-23T22:10:10Z")
Nope, its all from scratch but first of all I just drew a free hand outline of the rough shape, then lowered the opacity of that layer, started a new layer then carried on as normal. I find it helps to see the whole thing before starting.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 23, 2003, 10:11pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/my-first-mspaint-pixelly-picture/26434/25 "2003-07-23T22:11:13Z")
hey thats really cool, that makes it that much more impressive…good job…
how long did it take though on avg?
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 23, 2003, 10:12pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/my-first-mspaint-pixelly-picture/26434/26 "2003-07-23T22:12:04Z")
Thanks 🙂
It took about 3 weeks, not constantly obviously lol
- Soul :s:
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 23, 2003, 10:12pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/my-first-mspaint-pixelly-picture/26434/27 "2003-07-23T22:12:25Z")
i hope not…hahahah
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 23, 2003, 10:13pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/my-first-mspaint-pixelly-picture/26434/28 "2003-07-23T22:13:17Z")
Actually it was for 3 weeks constantly, I was locked in a basement with a gun to my head and told I couldn’t eat until I had fnished… _cries_
- Soul :s:
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 23, 2003, 10:14pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/my-first-mspaint-pixelly-picture/26434/29 "2003-07-23T22:14:57Z")
i am really sorry to hear that…it must have been quite an experience. you know i thought that was the message your artwork portrayed…it really deeply spoke to me.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 23, 2003, 10:32pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/my-first-mspaint-pixelly-picture/26434/30 "2003-07-23T22:32:38Z")
:beam:
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 23, 2003, 10:36pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/my-first-mspaint-pixelly-picture/26434/31 "2003-07-23T22:36:10Z")
haha…guess we ran out of stuff to say…
anyway soul i have a question for ya, to be honest i am still not sold on ps for this stuff. in mspaint there is that thumbnail view that works really nice to avoid zooming in and out every 2 seconds…can you do that in ps? if not how did you manage?
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 23, 2003, 10:40pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/my-first-mspaint-pixelly-picture/26434/32 "2003-07-23T22:40:38Z")
There is that option in photoshop too :beam:
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 23, 2003, 10:41pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/my-first-mspaint-pixelly-picture/26434/33 "2003-07-23T22:41:47Z")
thats strange considering ms paint is much more advanced, wow ps is impressing me more and more. now where would i find this feature? 😉
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 23, 2003, 10:50pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/my-first-mspaint-pixelly-picture/26434/34 "2003-07-23T22:50:24Z")
Umm, I think Window \> Navigator does it 🙂
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 23, 2003, 10:52pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/my-first-mspaint-pixelly-picture/26434/35 "2003-07-23T22:52:26Z")
yeah i tried that already…it isnt very clear. oh well thats cool. its ok if mspaint is better…hahah j/k 🙂
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 24, 2003, 6:00am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/my-first-mspaint-pixelly-picture/26434/36 "2003-07-24T06:00:12Z")
not to dissapoint you…but you can get just as many colors in paint as you can with photoshop!!!..no joke
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 24, 2003, 5:26pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/my-first-mspaint-pixelly-picture/26434/37 "2003-07-24T17:26:16Z")
yeah i knew that too, i hate the set-up of the colour pallete though how you can only have so many colours at once. what i did to make the colour selection process a little quicker without having to go define custom colour…blah blahblah… i just took a small pic with colours i liked and pasted it beside my drawing. then just used the eyedropper tool to… it actually worked for me faster than going through everything else.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 24, 2003, 9:32pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/my-first-mspaint-pixelly-picture/26434/38 "2003-07-24T21:32:19Z")
Wow…like a real painter with a board and everything…but on a computer…
impressive
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 24, 2003, 10:49pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/my-first-mspaint-pixelly-picture/26434/39 "2003-07-24T22:49:07Z")
Hey…I know im a late comer in this but that Castle is nice.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 24, 2003, 10:53pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/my-first-mspaint-pixelly-picture/26434/40 "2003-07-24T22:53:11Z")
right on
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