Yes, another one! I redrew Gio's face to be more detailed (I wouldn't say realistic, though) than the previous avatar picture, rounding and adding irises and pupils to his eyes, a nose, and an open, smiling mouth with visible teeth inside it - besides his already obvious large fangs. As usual, the image is tinted. The colors are at 50% (half) luminescense plus 128 Red and 32 Green (Blue remains at 50% luminescense). For the screen blur effect, I resized the image from 108x108 to 1080x1080 (10x the original size) in the new Windows 11 Microsoft Paint (after drawing it in the Windows XP version).

For those that don't know, there is a major glitch in the new (Windows 11) Microsoft Paint that blurs images when they are resized so that jagged pixels are smoothed when the image is enlarged. Unfortunately, anyone who doesn't know this will ruin their work unless they first resize the canvas to the desired size before enlarging the specific part of the image they want to to the same size as the canvas. For example, if I want to enlarge an image from, say 96x72, to 960x720, I would first change the background color (the color on the bottom in Windows 11) to a color that is not used in the image but that is easy to see (like neon green), and then resize the canvas (under Image Properties under the File tab) to 960(Width)x720(Height), and then selecting the part of the image that is still 96x72 that I want to enlarge and resize it with Stretch and Skew to 960(Horizontal)x720(Vertical) with the measurement set to pixels, not percent, which maxes out at 500.

If you want to use percent to get the same result (the method for any version of Microsoft Paint prior to Windows Vista, so Windows XP, Windows 98, and Windows 95), you would resize the desired part of the image 500% (5x) for both Horizontal(Width) and Vertical(Height) and then resize it again (while still selected) to 200% (2x) for Horizontal and Vertical to get the desired size of 960x720. If you're confused about how the percent works, a whole number is 100 x number in question% - so 5 would be 5 x 100 = 500%. Since we want to resize the specific part of the image from 96x72 to 960x720, or 10x, or 10000%, we would enlarge the desired part by 5x (500%), and then 2x (200%) to get 10000%, or 10x the original size, since 500% x 200% = 10000%, or 10x. The more you know.

Still created using only Microsoft Paint (Windows XP and Windows 11 version).

- Gio

Sunday, October 13th, 2024
11:03 A.M. Central Daylight Time (CDT)