RJPARE

can a brush be framed one colour and inside another? that is why I use elipses and [at least back in MS PAINT days] polygon both set at black frame/border and white fill interior to create word balloons. Now. with PDN on transparent layer I create an elipse back border white inside.. us polygon or just 2 lines to create pointy part and then fill in the point with bucket of white... polygon WITH fill would just save one step... would auto fill the pointer... s'cool... I got it figured out Tho for future, a polygon tool with all features of MS PAINT style would be quite cool.... :-D

in a comic strip the balloon has a pointy arrow sticking off pointing in direction of speaker. Elipse to make body of balloon... polygon to create triangular arrow part...

that's ok... I think I can work around by creating the balloon on one layer that is transparent and then doing polygon and filling white and moving whole thing to proper position....

1 prob.. or obstacle... in MS PAINT this tool can be set to auto fill with a secondary colour once polygon is complete... is that possible with this plugin? reason I ask.. in MS PAINT when creating a word balloon 1, create a black framed and filled with white elipse 2. create the direction arrow of balloon using polygon with frame black and fill on white... you make a triangle stuck to edge of balloon when done interior auto fills white Thus yer word balloon is done. without auto fill you have to go in and bit by bit paint interior of triangle area white...

A big thank you to PeaceHeather and all the rest. In a PM she just gave me a small TIP that is a revelation.... at least to a newbie like me!! For being able to place image or text onto another image... --- The MS PAINT method of copy paste and choose transparent white... is not way to go.. can't be done in PDN and is sloppy anyway. I create a layer for new image or text... make that LAYER transparent, first, then move text to spot and merge layers. So much better and no leftover fringe white pixels to have to go to max zoom and remove one by one.. I may learn this yet!! Thx fer responding and thx to all of you for putting up with a stubborn MS PAINT dinosaur today and answering questions!!

oh boy.. I am out of my depth here. the 1st tutorial did not cover any of the things I am trying to do. the second one... on photo collage.. didn't seem to serve any purpose.... it lumped 3 images on top of one another and didn't seem to create any sort of final image [at least it isn't shown] maybe this just is beyond my expertise... simple question. Is there a variation of MS paint where I can alter the DPI? In all honesty.. that would suit my needs, perfectly. MS PAINT is extraordinarily simple to use.. I feel, when I try to use these more advanced progs [like GIMP, tried that.. confused me for hours] - I feel like ya need a wealth of photoshop prior experience to actually understand/use. Does such a MS Paint variation exist?

I will read that... probably the biggest tip I am looking for is how to paste an image or a text that has been copied from another layer and paste it on top of the image I want to modify [like adding dialogue, fer instance] and have the option of the background white the image or text was on be invisible / see thru on paste... Hope I am explaining it right.. anyone familiar with MS Paint know there are 2 types of pasteing there... one where white backgorund is visible.. one where it becomes translucent when pasteing one item over another... Just knowing that would make me happy... LOL the rest I suppose I could learn in time.. It's funny, all I really need is software like MS PAINT but that allows me to save at higher DPI instead of just default... this would allow me to letter some art my friends have sent me that is ok to print... MS Paint being only 96DPI that doesn't work... my online lettering with MS Paint for a comic strip was fine actually... but now I need fer print quality [sigh]

I have read thru the FAQ... I have tried playing with the program itself. many of the features which are far more advance than MS PAINT utterly baffle me. I have tried a few of the tutorials, but to be honest I found them far too complicated. MS PAINT is my only editing / graphics software prior experience. By any chance could someone direct me to a step by step tutorial on using this software, so that I may increase my knowledge/skills in this area? The interactive Guide... I tried it... didn't seem to explain anything... just identified stuff. Even simple things like the fact that the rectangle shape tool can be create 1 of 3 types [empty framed, filled, filled frame] in MS PAINT this is an easy visual menu that is directly below the tool when you select... here I cannot figure out how to change between. Pasteing... in MS PAINT I have 2 options.. paste over or paste where white is transparent [very useful]... I cannot see this option anywhere here. layers -- I am a complete newbie... cannot rely understand what appears to be a redundant step... either make a change or don't... but the tutorials I have tried so far seem to assume a level of experience in photo editing that I do not yet have. To sum up. Is there an absolute, step by step guide on how to use this program for those completely new? I apologize in adavance if I am in violation of forum rules - there seemed an awful lot of them.. and I did try to go thru some of the existing tutorials... but there are so many... Just hoping someone can point me to the very first "rung in the ladder" so to speak.