Paint Shop Pro - Tubes

Okay, so for all you PSP users out there, I've decided to start have Picture Tubes. Feel free to use them. :)
Pawprints Tube: Basically a bunch of pawprints filled with different textures and then beveled. Sounds simple but its actually pretty cool, and great for making backgrounds!
Enjoy!

MS Paint Resources - Brushes + Stamps

These can be used as either brushes or stamps. To use as brush turn Draw Opaque off, hold shift and drag (make sure its selected). To use as stamp turn Draw Opaque off, drag to wherever you want, hold shift and click, repeat (make sure its selected). You will need to crop before use. View cropping tutorial here.

MS Paint Resources - Gradients

Gradients: Set your background color to white, make sure Draw Opaque is unchecked, and paste. Click on gradient for full view. :)

MS Word + MS Paint - Patterned Effects + Scanlines

So y'wanna know how to create Scanlines? In paint? Impossible? no......
1) Get your picture.
2) Do a Crtl +A, to select all. Crtl + C to copy, and after you open up MS word, do Crtl + V.
3) Now after creating a rectangle (using Autoshapes Tutorial).
4) Now you must fill it in, with a pattern using your own colors. You can do this by double clicking and going to fill effects. (using Autoshapes Tutorial).
5) Adjust your transparency to 50%.
6) Print Screen, Crtl +V into Paint, crop, save. You are done!

You can also Make Scanlines this way:
By making your foreground black and selecting 1 or the patterns I have circled and then changing the transparency to 50%. Now what you should do is click ok, print screen, open up MS Paint, and do a Crtl + V. Now Crop and save.

Microsoft Word - Autoshapes

This is basically a tutorial to shop you how to use the Autoshapes in MS Word.
1) The Picture to the right should show you how to create an autoshape. You can choose any of the shapes.
2) By double-clicking on any shape you can edit the color, line, transparency, etc. Have fun!
UPDATE! - Okay, see all the things you can edit, after double-clicking? With the fill-effects, you can add patterns, gradients, and textures to your image. I will link to this tutorial in various others. This is the BASICS, when you experiment with this you can do AMAZING things!

MS Word + MS Paint - Colorizing

Its not possible........Oh yes it is! Whatever picture you want, its possible. With a little help from Microsoft Word that is. :P
1) Start of with your cropped and resized picture in Paint.
2) Do a Ctrl + A to select all, Crtl +C and do Crtl+V in MS Word.
4) Now you must make it Grayscale, Using the picture toolbar.
5) Then you must create a rectangle over the grayscaled
picture.
6) Choose the color of your rectangle and change the opacity to 30 - 40%, depending on your picture.
7) Do a Print Screen, and Crtl + V on Paint. Crop.
8) Yah! You just colorized a picture (sort of) in Paint!

Microsoft Paint - Adding Borders & Cropping

This is a basic tutorial, but it adds a nice effect to picture, depending on how you use it. So let us begin. I) Decide whether you want a single border or a double border.

BORDERS

1) Open up your image.
2) Using the Zoom Tool zoom in once or twice.
3) Using the rectangle tool and starting at the corner draw a rectangle.
4) Leave a space of 1-2 pixels then draw a 2nd border (OPTIONAL)
5) You are done!

CROPPING

1) Open up your image in MS Paint.
2) Using the Selection tool Copy the portion you want.
3) Crtl + C to Copy
4) Click File > New
5) Ctrl + V to Paste.
6) You have a Cropped Image! Here's how mine turned out after messing around with it a bit.

Print Screen Button - A general Tutorial

There are plenty of you out there who do not know what the Print Screen button is. So for your reference, I am providing this tutorial that shows where it is and how to use it. :)
Below I have provided you a picture of a keyboard, with the Print Screen button outlined in Red. It could be there or anywhere around that place.
What the Print Screen button basically does is take a picture of a entire screen that is appearing in your computer and basically if your press Ctrl + V, it can be pasted in any image editing program including Paint. After that you can resize, crop, etc. your print of the Screen however you want. When something has be Print Screened its called a Screenie. Beloe is a screenie I made of my blog front page.

Microsoft Paint + Microsoft Word - Gradient Tutorial

Yes, it IS possible to create gradient images in MS Paint (with a little help from MS Word).
1) Open up your image in MS Paint. Crop, Resize, Etc. until you get an image you want to work with. I resized by dragging the corners .
2) Do a Select All (Ctrl + A) and copy from here and paste in MS Word.
3) Select a Rectangle and drag in across the picture. As shown in picture below.

4) After dragging across the whole picture double click on the rectangle. Go to Fill Effects. Choose your gradient. And set the transparency at 50%.


5)Now you must do a Print Screen. Your Print Screen button is in the same row as F1, F2, F3, etc.
6) Afterward you must go to paint and crop your picture, so you only see the banner.
7) Save, and you are done. If you want add border and text. :)

Paint.NET - Radial Blur Effect

Note: This was a photoshop tutorials, which I have converted to Paint.NET.
1) Open up your image you want to work on. (I am using a picture of a monkey)
2) Duplicate the Layer. Ctrl + Shift + D
3) On the Duplicated Layer - Go to effects > Blurs > Radial Blur. Match your settings to mine:


Now I am going to erase a bit around the monkey's face so I can see it better.
Merge the layers. (Ctrl + M) This is what I got:

Paint.NET Tutorial - Overlay Effect

You are probably aware of the program "Paint.NET" if you are not do a google search for "Paint.NET download" and you will be able to download it. If you've used it before you probably know it supports layers. And in this tutorial I am going to show you a cool trick you can do with layers. :)
1) Copy your picture from the Internet and paste it into paint.NET. Then go to Image > Crop to Selection. I resized my image (on the left) by dragging in the corners before I cropped.
2) Now you must duplicate the layer. You can do this by Ctrl+Shift+D.
3) On your newly created layer, go to Effects > Distort > Pixilate and make your cell size 10.
4) Now press f4 on your keyboard and set the blending mode to overlay. Ta da! Now you're done! If you save it as anything besides a .PDN it will merge by itself.