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You'll be amazed at what you can achieve when you learn to use the tools in Paint. You'll be amazed at what you can achieve when you learn to use the tools and in Paint. You'll be amazed and what you can achieve when you learn to use the tools in Paint. Paint for Windows 7 Flowers in Windows 7 Paint Make stars, wheels and more using just Paint. Make a compass rose and colour it or print it out blank for colouring. Get a drawing the same on both sides All about dithering and how to avoid it. Making faces. Zoom to the spot you're working on. Make fancy text for headings

Email and Stationery

How to make photos smaller before attaching to email. Get good results from the OE stationery wizard When pictures in email are replaced by red crosses How to make a seamless tile for stationery backgrounds Make a lovely background from a tiny picture. Use a fancy font to decorate a background tile Make a bright balloon background for a birthday email. Copy the code and make your own stationery. Completely change the look of a piece of stationery. Send greetings on flamboyant Christmas backgrounds

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Design personalised gift wrap and print it. How to find a particular character, such as ¢,© or é. How to make a picture of your screen, or of an error message. Free graphics programs that can be downloaded It's important to save pictures in the appropriate format. 216 colours from which to choose How colour numbers work Compare good and poor contrast

All Picture Related Topics

Information | Mini-tutorials—Making various shapes using only Windows Paint | Making Fancy Text in Paint | Symbol and Picture Fonts | Charts of Symbol Fonts to Print | Seamless Tiles for Stationery Backgrounds | Different Tiles to Make Step-by-Step | Sample Seamless Backgrounds | Backgrounds for You to Save and Use

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Finding the pictures in fonts like Wingdings   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

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Making Fancy Text in Paint

Fancy Headings  |  Making Masks for Lettering  |  Oblique Stripes

Symbol and Picture Fonts

Symbol Fonts—How to Find Which Key Yields Which Picture  

fontchartsdoc.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

Arial Extended Characters  |  Monotype Sorts  |  Webdings  
Wingdings  |  Wingdings2  |  Wingdings3  |  Zapf Dingbats

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.

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Different Tiles to Make Step-by-Step

Seamless Flower Tiles from a Scan  |  Seamless Birthday Tiles   Wingding Tiles   Gift Wrap

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.

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

Hundreds of patterned and textured backgrounds, subtle or bold, tartans, florals, novelties.  

 

 

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