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I remember seeing some very realistic gradient stuff done in Paint aeons ago. Here's one of them (honestly looks less impressive now though): https://www.youtub

• lucb1e 4y ago
  To save others a cookie wall / TL;DW: it's a combination of flood/bucket-filling regions defined with pencil, and just manually doing pixel art with the pencil (in both cases you choose each individual color in the gradient manually of course). Impressive, yes. But also time-consuming. I find gradients very hard myself: both hard to match when editing an existing photo and also hard to make look good when drawing something new, but (without knowing how) I would venture that one can save a ton of time by not doing this all manually as shown in that video. I might even argue this is not "done with Paint" so much as "done by hand / by choosing each pixel manually" (because even with bucket fill, you still choose where the line of each shade of the gradient is, plus choosing the color) which is of course entirely independent of the tool -- could be gimp, could be photoshop, could be mspaint. Which is not to say that paint can't do cool stuff faster than just doing every pixel manually. Nerdparadise has nice tutorials on that: https://nerdparadise.com/mspaint https://nerdparadise.com/mspaint Now that I check this page again, it actually has gradients, and it actually uses a different technique :) https://nerdparadise.com/mspaint/lineargradient https://nerdparadise.com/mspaint/lineargradient Too bad it only works in a single direction, though. I see many of the submarines have more of a radial pattern which is another tutorial on NP but more manual work and less good result.