My first mspaint pixelly picture

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lol soul. someone has patience, but i wont point anyfingers

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It’s rude to point :wink:

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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…

:slight_smile:

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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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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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Thanks :slight_smile:

It took about 3 weeks, not constantly obviously lol

  • Soul :s:
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i hope not…hahahah

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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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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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:beam:

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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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There is that option in photoshop too :beam:

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thats strange considering ms paint is much more advanced, wow ps is impressing me more and more. now where would i find this feature? :wink:

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Umm, I think Window > Navigator does it :slight_smile:

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yeah i tried that already…it isnt very clear. oh well thats cool. its ok if mspaint is better…hahah j/k :slight_smile:

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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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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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Wow…like a real painter with a board and everything…but on a computer…

impressive

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Hey…I know im a late comer in this but that Castle is nice.

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right on