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Okay. Here’s a little “how to” for MSPaint gradients. Yes, it’s a little convoluted. But that’s what makes MSPaint so much fun.

Good luck!

Feel free to post any questions in the comments.

Check it out!

Seriously.

I’m really pleased with how this one came out. The Orange Hippo looks so pleasantly surprised.

Sometimes love hits where you least expect it.

Oh Queen Frostine. You’re so stylish.

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Over the next few weeks I’ll be posting a couple of the GChat icons I’ve come up with.

First, Kurt’s icon.

WHOA! SO INTENSE!

I’ve been working on a bunch of MSPaint GChat logos for people. It all started when Andrew and Ben happened to snag MSPaint images from the 720 adventure to use as their icons.

I had a vision… how many people’s Gchat icons could I populate with MSPaint images. I’ve been making a few. Kate from Ohio put one up, Jill’s got one, Cindy too, and I’m working on one for Max and Adam. How absurdly fun.

I just can’t get enough of MSPaint.

Check out this sweet MSPaint Bureau.

So this halloween I through up an MSPaint template to be filled in by MSPaint enthusiasts. The goal was to put me into a sweet costume of your choosing.

The results were massive. Check it out!!!

You’ll notice those last two are bonus images (i didn’t get the pictures up by halloween)

Feel free to praise your top 5 favorites in the comment section. The Artists will be revealed in the next features post.

So I stumbled across two new sweet MSPaint tricks. The first is a quick copy and the second is a funky drag.

Open up MSPaint and draw something simple. Take your selector tool and select an area that has some sort of design drawn inside. Hold down Ctrl on your keyboard and then drag your selection… it copies it! HOT!

Now, when I showed this to sander, he happened to try the same thing with SHIFT… and the effect is a lot weirder. To test, draw a long horizontal line across your MSPaint canvas. Select just a small portion in the center with the selector tool. Hold down shift and drag your selection diagonally… What?!? It “sweeps” the edges of your selection tool.

How on Earth is this useful you ask? well, after I shared the idea with Jesse he pointed out that you can now sweep color gradients. Using the quick gradient technique discussed here you can select a gradient and then sweep it. I used this technique for the background of the Halloween MSPaint above. Hot huh?

Speaking of MSPaint, today marks the final day of the MIKE D MSPAINT COSTUME CONTEST. So if you have any last minute inspiration, send it over. A recap will be posted soon.

This is classic.

Mike D as a huge Alien.

The Quintessential Robot.

An action scene…

Mike D slowly turning into a stick figure.

Mike D. as an overly exuberant Tom Cruise

Venus de Mike D.

I like the pale stone white skin.

Costume!

Boxer D.

One more week of Halloween costumes! Participate in all the mayhem here.

The return of a nearly perfected science.