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How
to make Smileys
To start Paint click the Start button,
goto Programs, then Accessories then
click Paint.
If you have never opened or saved
a gif with paint you may need to do
the following:
Click 'File', 'Open', set the "Files
of type" box to "All Files" and find
a gif to open (refer to picture below)
after you've done that, click 'File'
then 'New'.
If you have already done the first
step then start here:
1.) With Paint open, click 'Image'
then 'Attributes'. Change the height
and width to 15 and 15 (standard smiley
size) as shown below:
2.) Next click the magnifier glass
and zoom in by a factor of 8:
3.) Click the Brush tool and select
the smallest brush:
4.) Now you can draw one pixel at
a time, after you have your smiley
outlined you can select the Fill tool
and fill it with the color of your
choice:
5.) Finish the details of your smiley
and select the Fill tool again, select
a color you haven't used yet (i like
to use bright green) and fill the
areas that you want to be transperent:
6.) Next click 'File' then 'Save as...'.
Change the "Save as Type" to "Graphics
Interchange Format (*.gif)" and save:
7.) A message pops up telling you
that some color info will be lost,
just click yes:
8.) Next click 'Image' then 'Attributes'
again, check the use transparency
box and click "Select Color":
9.) Click on the color which you picked
in step 5 (for me, bright greed, it
is selected in the picture below,
it has a black border around it):
10.) After your Background color is
set it shows up in the bottom left
hand corner behind the foreground
and background color. Click 'File'
then 'Save':
11.) Here's what mine looked like
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