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!