Graphics Pages
Nothing but Windows Paint
Email and Stationery
Bits and Bobs
Information
- Make Paint's Zoom Tool Behave Nicely
- What is dithering and how can it cause problems?
- Symmetry: getting pictures the same on both sides
- If you're used to Paint's colors and upgrade to Vista
- Re-using Pictures from Web Pages
- Graphics Formats—Choosing the Appropriate One
- Photos in Email | Free Graphics Programs
Mini-tutorials—Making various shapes using only Windows Paint
- Preparing a workspace and making cutouts in Windows Paint
- Concentric circles to make a wheel | Attaching_spokes to a painted bicycle wheel
- Twenty-four evenly spaced spokes for a bicycle wheel
- Decorative hub for the centre of a wheel | A regular hexagon
- A six-pointed star | A five-pointed star | Five petalled flowers
- Distribute numbers evenly around a clock face | Simple faces
- The sort of rose window pattern you make with a compass and pencil
- An octagon with a point at the top | An octagon with a flat side at the top
Making Fancy Text in Paint
- Fancy Headings | Making Masks for Lettering
- An Ocean Photo as Background
- Oblique Stripes | Spraycan Background | Stretched Spray Pattern
- Add an Outline | Change the Colours | A Font with Shadow
Symbol and Picture Fonts
- Symbol Fonts—How to Find Which Key Yields Which Picture
Symbol Fonts—Zip Chart and instructions for easily finding all characters in any font. Useful to use with decorative fonts or picture fonts.
Charts of Symbol Fonts to Print
Seamless Tiles for Stationery Backgrounds
These tiles repeat all over the background of a piece of stationery and add much less to the upload/download size of an email than do those designed to go right across the page.
How to Make Seamless Tiles The whole process, step by step.
Seamless Tiles—How to Cut Detailed explanation of turning a tile inside-out so that edges meet seamlessly.
Different Tiles to Make Step-by-Step
Sample Seamless Backgrounds
Text can be hard to read if it doesn't contrast with the background, or if the background is busy and distracting. On these sample pages you can see and compare differences or save any background that you think you may find useful.
- Mid Blue, Blurred | Dark Red | Green | Navy
- “Busy” or “Noisy” Background Tile | Parchment Colour
- Rose Pink | Salmon | Soft Pink | Yellow
Backgrounds for You to Save and Use
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