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There used to be a website that showed off cool mspaint tricks like putting an image on top of another with 50% opacity, and rotating images using shear. Pretty

• Aardwolf 4y ago
  Do you remember which? Maybe it's still up, or at least archived. I'm curious for this 50% opacity trick now
  • Ennea 4y ago
    50% opacity probably works my manually interlacing two images, then reducing the size to 50%. You can also do fun stuff like gradients in MS Paint: start out with a square canvas, divide it diagonally and fill each resulting triangle with a different color. Then use the "Stretch/Skew" dialog to horizontally (or vertically) stretch it all to the minimum (5%, if memory serves me right). Edit: Actually, I suppose the minimum stretch was 1%. So the square should be 100x100 in size :)
  • schindlabua 4y ago
    iirc it was called nerdhaven or something. I can't seem to find it. But the other commenter got it right :) 1. Enlarge image by 200% -- mspaint uses nearest neighbor interpolation so this turns every pixel into 4 with no smoothing. 2. Replace every second row with a gnarly pink color, or anything else that's not in your original picture. Kinda tedious but with copy paste you can do it pretty fast. 3. Set that pink as your background color, then use the "transparent select" or whatever, it will select all pixels in your rectangle that's not your current background color. 4. Enlarge the target image by 200% in another mspaint, copy the first image over, then shrink by 50%. I loved doing that haha, showed it to all my nerd friends.