Microsoft Paint question

MaceyWindu · Post by **MaceyWindu** » Tue Aug 19, 2008 7:03 pm

Whenever you save on MS paint the program automatically blends the edges of your colors. Is there a way to keep it from doing this?

siabur · Post by **siabur** » Tue Aug 19, 2008 7:56 pm

Sorry can't help you with paint. I'd recommend you try gimp, google search for it, it's a free graphics program. Somewhat similar to photoshop. It will give you better control of your graphics and do more.

Niki

Aliencat · Post by **Aliencat** » Tue Aug 19, 2008 8:46 pm

siabur wrote:Sorry can't help you with paint. I'd recommend you try gimp, google search for it, it's a free graphics program. Somewhat similar to photoshop. It will give you better control of your graphics and do more.

The question was about MS Paint though, and not about what program to use instead.

MaceyWindu, MS Paint will only do this if you save the file as a jpeg.
Although the filesize will be much bigger, saving as a bitmap (.bmp) will save the exact colour of every pixel and therefor the image will be exactly as you saved it, without it blending any edges.

matt12123343 · Post by **matt12123343** » Tue Aug 19, 2008 9:02 pm

Oh wow! Thats awsome.Thanks.(I needed to know that too!)

MaceyWindu · Post by **MaceyWindu** » Tue Aug 19, 2008 9:37 pm

Aliencat wrote:
siabur wrote:Sorry can't help you with paint. I'd recommend you try gimp, google search for it, it's a free graphics program. Somewhat similar to photoshop. It will give you better control of your graphics and do more.
The question was about MS Paint though, and not about what program to use instead.

MaceyWindu, MS Paint will only do this if you save the file as a jpeg.
Although the filesize will be much bigger, saving as a bitmap (.bmp) will save the exact colour of every pixel and therefor the image will be exactly as you saved it, without it blending any edges.

Thanks Aliencat. That was what I was looking for. Thanks for the tip. And siabur thanks for the gimp suggestion. I might try it out.

siabur · Post by **siabur** » Tue Aug 19, 2008 11:32 pm

You're welcome.

matt12123343 · Post by **matt12123343** » Wed Aug 20, 2008 2:14 am

Yeah i have gimp and i use paint too.Some things are easier to do on paint some are easier on gimp.

Hound Knight · Post by **Hound Knight** » Wed Aug 20, 2008 3:10 pm

I personally prefer Paint.net. It can be downloaded here: http://paint.net/