MS Paint masterpeices... sort of...

Flint · 03-17-2008, 02:20 PM

Cool...I stumbled upon a "silk-screening" effect...another use for MS Paint's natural tendency to consider the color white a non-value. Now I can colorize black/white doodles by pasting them on top of flat color panels. At first I was just trying to eliminate stray black dots that were artifacts of the process that created the pattern. Now, I'm realizing that this can be done deliberately to replace white (or black, inverse) with a flat color. Not as fancy as swapping colors for gradients, or the other stuff I used to do with PSP or Adobe, but I'm having fun with the simplicity of Paint.

Now that I think about it, I could swap a black or white value for a gradient, or whatever, if I pasted it on top of one.

03-17-2008, 02:20 PM	#31
Flint Snowflake Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Dystopia Posts: 13,136	Cool...I stumbled upon a "silk-screening" effect...another use for MS Paint's natural tendency to consider the color white a non-value. Now I can colorize black/white doodles by pasting them on top of flat color panels. At first I was just trying to eliminate stray black dots that were artifacts of the process that created the pattern. Now, I'm realizing that this can be done deliberately to replace white (or black, inverse) with a flat color. Not as fancy as swapping colors for gradients, or the other stuff I used to do with PSP or Adobe, but I'm having fun with the simplicity of Paint. Now that I think about it, I could swap a black or white value for a gradient, or whatever, if I pasted it on top of one. Attached Images __________________ **************** There's a level of facility that everyone needs to accomplish, and from there it's a matter of deciding for yourself how important ultra-facility is to your expression. ... I found, like Joseph Campbell said, if you just follow whatever gives you a little joy or excitement or awe, then you're on the right track. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Terry Bozzio**

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