One of these features is the ability to choose a tertiary colour. This is, again, a matter of Microsoft removing very useful features that they think no one uses. Unfortunately, even with all these improvements, I would still prefer to use the previous version. It may seem like the Win7 Paint has more functionality, namely better zoom, more brushes, shapes, and perhaps the best improvement, the addition of rulers and a grid. Luckily, I have a copy of the Windows XP version, so I just use that instead. It is way too complicated for something as simple as Paint. I dislike the ribbon interface immensely, and for whatever reason, Microsoft is slowly converting their applications to use it. The ribbon was added to the Windows 7 version of Paint.
Note that the grid was introduced in Windows 7 The grid was actually available in earlier versions if one zoomed in 400% or more (shortcut Ctrl+PgDn). This tutorial by Messenjah covers most of them. Over the years, I’ve collected a few tips and tricks for Paint. From left to right: Win1, Win3, Win95, Win98, WinXP, Vista, Win7. I see many of the submarines have more of a radial pattern which is another tutorial on NP but more manual work and less good result.The evolution of the MS Paint logo. Nerdparadise has nice tutorials on that: Now that I check this page again, it actually has gradients, and it actually uses a different technique :) Too bad it only works in a single direction, though.
Which is not to say that paint can't do cool stuff faster than just doing every pixel manually. I might even argue this is not "done with Paint" so much as "done by hand / by choosing each pixel manually" (because even with bucket fill, you still choose where the line of each shade of the gradient is, plus choosing the color) which is of course entirely independent of the tool - could be gimp, could be photoshop, could be mspaint. I find gradients very hard myself: both hard to match when editing an existing photo and also hard to make look good when drawing something new, but (without knowing how) I would venture that one can save a ton of time by not doing this all manually as shown in that video. To save others a cookie wall / TL DW: it's a combination of flood/bucket-filling regions defined with pencil, and just manually doing pixel art with the pencil (in both cases you choose each individual color in the gradient manually of course).
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