Graphics Guide

Note: PM gave me permission to make a guide on this

Ok so I'm pretty much gonna use ms paint tricks for this guide, this may help some of you if you're creating a graphic or something. Tricks are mainly some techniques, where I put Techniques: #, it'll have bigger things.

Trick-1: I deem this pretty important: Zooming in
The Zoom button might not look appealing, but you'll need it, I always zoom in to create my graphics, a x8 does great. You'll need to get used to drawing at x6 or 8 for some of these techniques.

Trick-2: Helps after zooming in: Grid
Ctrl-G will open the grid if you are zoomed in, around x8, not sure about x6. It helps when you need to see how many pixels apart you need some things to be.etc, not a great example but I can't think of any other ones at the moment.

Trick-3: Good for blending: Gradients
Now you probably wont need gradients for editing, but when you make pictures, its pretty useful. Basically, you take a color, lets say red for instance, and you put a line of it, then above it, you take a lighter shade of red, over and over again, and when you zoom out, it'll look like it blends into white. This is just an easy way of blending. Double click on the color you want, then click define custom colors, there you can reset the darkness/lightness of the color. Usually people dont use it for a huge blended line, it would be used in a way that blends in random directions to the lighting and all. This is mainly for good 3D drawings, unlike the pokemon style.

Trick-4: This is sorta like the way pokemon blends it
Ok lets take a look at an example picture.

Look at the pokemon for a second, and you can see the dark areas and the lighter areas right? Take a look at the ears on the left, its basically gray, except for some white parts to accompany the light, it looks great for games like pokemon, and aren't too hard to do, just take a middle color, and color most of it, then take a darker shade, and fill in shadowed parts, then take a lighter color and put it where the light would probably hit it.

Technique-1: Hate those white colors outside of pictures when you move em into another background?
Ok, so there are two ways to fix this, depending on how you did it. If you brought a picture into a background, and its completely square, that probably means that you used the wrong moving function, that one brings all the pixels in. The option below it (like line sizes when your using the line function) will bring it in transparently, so the outside color wont be put in. Most pictures will still have a semi white outline over the picture, so to fix it, you'll need to bring it into another window. Copy paste is ok, and you can delete the old one later. Once you have the picture in a window, take some color that isnt used on the pokemon, and fill in the background. Now you can see the splotches. Use the zoom x8 function, and go around the picture, using the same color you used for the background, and getting rid of all those outline spots. Once your done, fill the background in white again, then copy, paste, and move into the background.

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good guide i new all this stuff but good 30 credits and 1000 posts woot

This is great excellently put together. I already knew this stuff as well but still it is very thorough