Few appreciate my passion for MSPaint
Mike D: I figured out an extremely efficient way to make gradients in MSPaint
Jesse: oh?
Mike D: Normally, I choose a color that I want to blend and double click the pallet. This brings up the color edit menu. By clicking on “Define Custom Colors” I can then adjust the color by a small amount, return to my picture, and by repeating this process over and over I slowly work my way to the new color.
Jesse: and the new way?
Mike D: I open up a new MSPaint document and make my way to the same “define custom colors” screen. Then I just take a screen shot, paste the image of the color gradient into the second document, select and copy my ideal gradient, paste it into the new piece, and then use the eyedropper to select the color I want. Once the setup is done, I can zoom into my workpiece and never have to return to the edit colors screen. It’s probably ten times faster.
Jesse: Wow! I’m surprised you don’t get more women.
That is .. intensely clever.
That’s a great, simple trick that i never would have thought of. And yes, this is a woman saying so.
I, like Jesse, am surprised.
I appreciate your passion. The image flip happened for the first time last night when the parking ban was declared!
NICE!
Also, I got an e-mail late last night telling me that there was a Worcester Parking Ban. This was perfect because it gave me notice that I should leave a little early to scrape the car.
Sweet!
For those of you who aren’t familiar with ParkingBan, check it out here:
http://blog.parkingban.org/
Simple though Mike’s new trick has been declared to be, I still find it way too complicated for my little MSpaint beginner brain to comprehend.
I’ll never understand your passion for the MSPaint.
Its like trying to cut broccoli with a spoon. You can do it, but it will take you much longer than needed and there are better tools out there.
(but i have to admit that is a clever technique)
This is the best analogy that I’ve ever heard.
Broccoli isn’t that hard to cut with a spoon. You just need to cook it for a bit longer.
By that token, if I put my computer in boiling water will that make it easier to use MSPaint?
It might make it easier to cut your computer with a spoon, but I wouldn’t recommend it.
Perhaps you lack a scientific mind. Boiling water is more creative than the sledge hammer approach.
Boiling water may be unconventional, but creativity doesn’t improve effectiveness. Depending on how you use the sledge hammer, you might inadvertently make the computer run better, whereas the boiling water is very likely to wreck it.
Ah, I was wrong. Your mind is TOO scientific. Creativity is not antithetical to effectiveness, and can even improve it at times. The point of either boiling water or the sledge hammer would not be to improve performance but to take revenge.
As I understood it, your boiling water plan was about making MSPaint easier to use. Somewhere in there, you switched from desperate attempts at improvement to flat out revenge.
That’s a natural progression in my life. Revenge may not improve my MSPaint skills but I would feel less tension about the whole situation. So really it’s a win-win.