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General Discussion => Art => Topic started by: thepenguin77 on July 21, 2010, 06:50:53 pm

Title: 10x zoom in paint
Post by: thepenguin77 on July 21, 2010, 06:50:53 pm
I'm sure many people already know about this one, but Microsoft added a little easter egg into paint. If you click the bar directly below 8x when selecting magnification, it will give you 10x zoom.

This isn't really ground breaking, but I figure since I use it every time I make sprites for a game, I might as well share it. It feels way bigger than 8x even though it's really not.
Title: Re: 10x zoom in paint
Post by: calcdude84se on July 21, 2010, 06:56:24 pm
What version of Paint is this? I can't seem to find it on Windows 7.
Title: Re: 10x zoom in paint
Post by: FinaleTI on July 21, 2010, 06:58:42 pm
Interesting.... I wonder if this is possible in Windows 7 as Paint is different in it.
Title: Re: 10x zoom in paint
Post by: thepenguin77 on July 21, 2010, 06:59:20 pm
Windows 7 might kill it. I'm in XP.
Title: Re: 10x zoom in paint
Post by: calcdude84se on July 21, 2010, 07:00:32 pm
This brings up what is my biggest complaint with Vista and 7: Too many buttons, not enough menus :P
It might not be possible... I don't even think there's an options menu any more x.x
Title: Re: 10x zoom in paint
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on July 21, 2010, 07:12:48 pm
This was under Windows XP. I believe 10x was available through menus, but this easter egg made it much easier to access.

However, I never got able to reproduce that easter egg. It did nothing, for me.
Title: Re: 10x zoom in paint
Post by: Magic Banana on July 21, 2010, 08:34:49 pm
Oh, cool. Just tried it out and it worked. It doesn't really help me much anyway, seeing as how I do my sprites in Fireworks, which gives me 64x zoom, which is too much for just about anything. nonetheless, it's a nice little easter egg.
Title: Re: 10x zoom in paint
Post by: Zera on July 21, 2010, 10:26:48 pm
I do all my pixel art in Paint Shop Pro 9. It's just a lot easier for me to work with, as I can use a grid view with a "snap-to-grid" feature. This allows me to, for instance, have a 16x16 grid that auto-snaps the selection tool to a 16 px boundary. As for zooming, I think it goes as high as 5000%. This is really useful for pixel-by-pixel drawing.

I'm not sure what sort of features have been added to Paint since XP, though. Maybe MS decided to implement similar things.
Title: Re: 10x zoom in paint
Post by: Juju on July 21, 2010, 11:20:17 pm
This was under Windows XP. I believe 10x was available through menus, but this easter egg made it much easier to access.
No, I don't think so... I believe the menus stops at 800%.

But yeah, Paint didn't really changed since 3.1 (or even 1.01!) but to update the styles to fit the current version of the OS... But they changed everything with 7 (the ribbon like in MS Office), so it doesn't work there.
Title: Re: 10x zoom in paint
Post by: bwang on July 22, 2010, 01:59:47 am
Yay easter eggs.
I do all my pixel art on the GIMP, though. Open Source ftw!
Title: Re: 10x zoom in paint
Post by: TIfanx1999 on July 22, 2010, 08:27:10 am
I find myself working in 6x magnification or sometimes 8. I use MS Paint for win 7. Personally I don't think I'd ever need a10X zoom(8 seems to be enough). And for reference, I do work in 8x8 sometimes. =)
Title: Re: 10x zoom in paint
Post by: meishe91 on July 22, 2010, 08:33:16 am
This was under Windows XP. I believe 10x was available through menus, but this easter egg made it much easier to access.
No, I don't think so... I believe the menus stops at 800%.

But yeah, Paint didn't really changed since 3.1 (or even 1.01!) but to update the styles to fit the current version of the OS... But they changed everything with 7 (the ribbon like in MS Office), so it doesn't work there.

Ya, it only goes up to 800% on mine (I'm on XP). But that is a pretty neat easter egg that I did not know about :) Thanks.
Title: Re: 10x zoom in paint
Post by: Raylin on July 22, 2010, 08:33:27 am
In the XP version of Paint, hold [Ctrl] when you're clicking a color to get the mysterious third color.
Title: Re: 10x zoom in paint
Post by: meishe91 on July 22, 2010, 08:39:17 am
In the XP version of Paint, hold [Ctrl] when you're clicking a color to get the mysterious third color.

Huh, weird. Is there even a way to use this third color?

I should really freshen up on my random easter eggs :P
Title: Re: 10x zoom in paint
Post by: Raylin on July 22, 2010, 08:43:52 am
In the XP version of Paint, hold [Ctrl] when you're clicking a color to get the mysterious third color.

Huh, weird. Is there even a way to use this third color?

I should really freshen up on my random easter eggs :P

Yah. When holding down a mouse button to paint things, hold Ctrl. :P
Title: Re: 10x zoom in paint
Post by: meishe91 on July 22, 2010, 08:44:50 am
Ah, that would make sense :P
Title: Re: 10x zoom in paint
Post by: calcdude84se on July 22, 2010, 09:03:53 am
I've noticed that one before... Very strange. :P
Title: Re: 10x zoom in paint
Post by: ztrumpet on July 22, 2010, 10:57:29 am
Thanks The Penguin!  It works for me (XP) and I know I'll use it someday. :)
Title: Re: 10x zoom in paint
Post by: Deep Toaster on July 27, 2010, 09:03:52 am
What third color? Can't find it anywhere...

It's probably just not on Server 2003. There's no zoom palette either, so no easter eggs :(

EDIT: 3 ʘʘ posts!
            ^
           \_/
Title: Re: 10x zoom in paint
Post by: Raylin on July 27, 2010, 01:29:36 pm
To be honest, I saw something completely different instead of the smiley face at first.
Title: Re: 10x zoom in paint
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on July 29, 2010, 05:19:17 pm
wow o.o

Same here. If you only keep the eyes, they become something else and I am sure Raylin thinks the same thing as me :P
Title: Re: 10x zoom in paint
Post by: Deep Toaster on July 29, 2010, 10:12:45 pm
I ... don't see it. A sad face (assuming you keep the nose)?
Title: Re: 10x zoom in paint
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on July 29, 2010, 10:16:15 pm
The ʘʘ part

It doesn't look like eyes to me and Raylin. Yeah, something more NSFW ;D
Title: Re: 10x zoom in paint
Post by: yunhua98 on July 30, 2010, 10:32:34 am
yeah, basically, you just need a ":)" above the "ʘʘ".  >:D
Title: Re: 10x zoom in paint
Post by: Deep Toaster on July 30, 2010, 10:42:28 am
Yeah, just noticed what it could be earlier. Maybe I shouldn't have added pupils >:D
Title: Re: 10x zoom in paint
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on July 30, 2010, 03:32:41 pm
Don't worryabout it too much. That stuff happens ;D