#the brushes are even more limited than mspaint

[ttsquid]

maybe paint 3d???

#jade harley #homestuck #its weird #you can barely have more than 5 custom colours saved which sucks real bad #the brushes are even more limited than mspaint #although they do flow better? #they still kinda suck :( #you can record videos on paint 3d however! #it has a built in history #so instead of having to screen record like i do with mspaint you can export the history as a video #mspaint is still superior to paint 3d byy a long mile though

[soaricarus]

why does nobody ever talk about the really nice features of mspaint. like when your first color (uses for pen/brushes/etc) is red and your second color (used for eraser or when you right click pen/brushes) is blue, and if you have red splotches and purple splotches on your canvas but you only wanna color the red and they overlap, then you can just hold right click with eraser and it'll color only the red with blue.

(and you can hold ctrl + numpad - or + to make brushes smaller or bigger past the limit!)

there's pen pressure for certain brushes, which is insane to me. no, this isn't a windows 11 thing, this also goes for windows 7 and 10.

you can use the pen and marker brushes to blend colors if you colorpick a lot. you can even draw over the same color with the pen and it'll darken it by just a bit. this is more noticeable with already dark colors, though, but still a nice feature nonetheless - not to mention all the shape tools you can use.

you can use the transparent selection in really nifty ways too. you can color one part of your drawing in your lines ppurple, leave your second color (used for selection transparency too!) purple, copy the section with the purple (and a surrounding area), then use the colors you want there and use blending and what have you, then you can paste what you copied with the purple and drag it over, line it up, and then you have nothing outside of the lines or on the other colors!

you can right click while drawing a line to undo it without doing ctrl + z

there's also a button right beside the selection at the top that you can press after selecting an area and then it'll cut the canvas down to only what you have selected

the textured brushes in mspaint are so fun!! their textures are so nice!!! sure some of them do end up running out for some reason so you have to use another brush stroke to keep going.

i think people give mspaint wayyy less credit than it deserves. it's actually a really nice program with it's own charm and a lot of quirks

#words on the wind #i hope i explained this well enough #im just rambling about my favorite art program