<usual MSPaint crapness disclaimer>

( Afinkawan is trying to write some comedy for Greenbelt, Tue 10 Apr 2007, 12:00, archived)

Hahaha!
Don't knock paint! C];0)

Woo!


( Sir Aunty Dave the Hat - frighten ducks with abundent wind! - Ta! Cannaoogim!?, Tue 10 Apr 2007, 12:02, archived)

Paint is fine
apart from no decent lasso tool and no anti-aliasing available.

Those two would add SOOO much to it.
( Afinkawan is trying to write some comedy for Greenbelt, Tue 10 Apr 2007, 12:03, archived)

I get round the lasso lack
by hand drawing round in a different window using a colour that doesn't appear in the picture and then pasting transparent onto the background, but it can be a pain . . . I have no idea what anti aliasing is . . .


( Sir Aunty Dave the Hat - frighten ducks with abundent wind! - Ta! Cannaoogim!?, Tue 10 Apr 2007, 12:05, archived)

Same here
I do exactly the same thing (using a lurid green usually) that's also how I do layers in Paint. I also have no idea what anti-aliasing is, I just know that when I click it in PS, it makes text look nicer.
( Afinkawan is trying to write some comedy for Greenbelt, Tue 10 Apr 2007, 12:06, archived)

Hahaha! I see!
What you can do is select a small piece of the background where you want to write the text, paste it into a new window, set it as background and write the text on it there, then when you paste transparent, it doesn't look so seamy but it's still a bit shite


( Sir Aunty Dave the Hat - frighten ducks with abundent wind! - Ta! Cannaoogim!?, Tue 10 Apr 2007, 12:08, archived)

Oooh.
I hadn't thought of that. Cunning.
( Afinkawan is trying to write some comedy for Greenbelt, Tue 10 Apr 2007, 12:10, archived)

Well
I AM the paint master . . .

Also, there's a website called www.cellsea.com/java-cellsea/media/index.htm that has a blur, which can be handy for making text nicer, but as it blurs the edges it can cause pasting difficulties


( Sir Aunty Dave the Hat - frighten ducks with abundent wind! - Ta! Cannaoogim!?, Tue 10 Apr 2007, 12:14, archived)

Usually I just compress it afterwards to do blurring, but I might try that as well.

( Afinkawan is trying to write some comedy for Greenbelt, Tue 10 Apr 2007, 12:15, archived)

ahem
www.b3ta.com/board/7069673
( ivesb ohh.......angry!, Tue 10 Apr 2007, 12:10, archived)

that's basically it, it's smoothing edges
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-aliasing
( pzyko, Tue 10 Apr 2007, 12:10, archived)

Ooh! ta!


( Sir Aunty Dave the Hat - frighten ducks with abundent wind! - Ta! Cannaoogim!?, Tue 10 Apr 2007, 12:12, archived)

Gosh!
I thought I was just clicking a control in Photoshop. I didn't realise I was doing all that without realising it. Yay me!
( Afinkawan is trying to write some comedy for Greenbelt, Tue 10 Apr 2007, 12:13, archived)

GURGE BUSH LOLOLOLOLOL

( gronkpan AUSSIES! http://aussiecultureissues.blogspot.com, Tue 10 Apr 2007, 12:02, archived)

*sees only one asterisk*
Madness! MAAAADNEEESSSSSS!!!
( wastedindustry hates writing CVs, Tue 10 Apr 2007, 12:02, archived)

*calls asterisk police*
hello b3ta
( Mighty Nibus who dares gins, Tue 10 Apr 2007, 12:03, archived)

Yeah I know
I just couldn't be arsed adding the other one and assumed that just the one would be enough to denote some sort of disclaimer.
( Afinkawan is trying to write some comedy for Greenbelt, Tue 10 Apr 2007, 12:04, archived)

Fair enough :)
I was only having a giggle anyway.
( wastedindustry hates writing CVs, Tue 10 Apr 2007, 12:04, archived)

*may contain nuts

( pzyko, Tue 10 Apr 2007, 12:03, archived)

good work for paint
woo
( Milkman Dan, Tue 10 Apr 2007, 12:04, archived)

It took bloody ages
to draw that Statue of Liberty.
( Afinkawan is trying to write some comedy for Greenbelt, Tue 10 Apr 2007, 12:05, archived)

"you don't even know what freedom means!"
/random new yorker in a bar when i was making this point

woo
(GoldenFanjita, Tue 10 Apr 2007, 12:06, archived)

It means something different over there
like 'fanny'.
( Afinkawan is trying to write some comedy for Greenbelt, Tue 10 Apr 2007, 12:07, archived)

land of the fanny?

(GoldenFanjita, Tue 10 Apr 2007, 12:09, archived)

fanny fries?

( Mighty Nibus who dares gins, Tue 10 Apr 2007, 12:10, archived)

fanny fries
and nacho cheese with a large soda please
(ACuntLikeYou I'm hated for loving, Tue 10 Apr 2007, 12:13, archived)

Do you want to supersize that?

( Afinkawan is trying to write some comedy for Greenbelt, Tue 10 Apr 2007, 12:16, archived)

hell
yeah!
(ACuntLikeYou I'm hated for loving, Tue 10 Apr 2007, 12:17, archived)

I've just thought of Roseanne Barr greased-up
now I need to go to the toilet, and I'm not sure for what reason
( Mighty Nibus who dares gins, Tue 10 Apr 2007, 12:20, archived)

:)

( HappyToast is dancing like Tim Booth on, Tue 10 Apr 2007, 12:06, archived)