Post by Severák in Final thoughts on mspaint

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> to set the dimensions of the project
jspaint.app (which I used) actually has resize dialog under Image > Attributes (and if I remember correctly this is same as in old Win98 Paint)

> I made my palette outside of paint
the trick was to actually make palette/template image and then use picker to pick these colors

> layers...
this is biggest difference between old paint and new modern editors. There are some tricks how to emulate layers using copypasting and multiple instances of paint, but I actually forgot how this was done back in the days. We probably don't cared about this as we were just kids playing with computer.

I actually like painting in mspaint, probably because I was used to in past.

Cristian Pintos3 years ago (1 edit)

1. Ouch lol, yeah like everything else hindsight or further time would have led to these discoveries but since I only had one night I went with the first solutions I saw.

2. This is one of the ones I realized once I was done and had a clear head

3. Mm thats interesting, not sure how that would work since theres no transparency but if you happen to find more info I'd love to know more about it. Maybe they just had save states instead of layers, parts of my process involved drawing over my previous stuff and erasing.

Yeah haha, initially I thought that too. I remember in 96-98 when I was a kid and I drew and printed artwork from paint. I used to make a lot of lines and fill in the gaps. True visionary...

But the reality was far from it, trying to do what I do in PS nowadays was pretty rough. Fun, but rough

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