How-to Make your lines MsPaint-Friendly!

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Have awesome lines already drawn but are NOT ms.paint friendly?! Don't want to re-draw it? You don't have too, continue reading to learn my trick!



I may put a visual aid up later for the steps but for now, I am just going to write them down. Hopefully it will still be follow-able to try it yourself!
  • Here Goes ::
    » Open your lines in paint.
    » Go to the top and select the option "Save As" (you'll get a pop-up now to select where to put it, name it and what file type)
    » On this pop-up, there is a line that reads "save as type", click on that and select the line that reads "Monochrome Bitmap"
    » Now save it a new file somewhere easy to find. (a new save so you don't overwrite your original saved lines)
    » Now close that file and now open it using the menu.
    » Save it once more but this time, change the "save as type" to "png" or "bmp" if you don't have the png option.
    » Now open the one you just saved and you can test it out by using the paint bucket to fill in an area. There may be some areas of the lines that you will want to manually clean/touch up (mostly for thinner drawn line-arts), but other than that, your lines are now crisp, no anti-aliasing which is what you want to work in ms.paint!

    And that's it!
I will provide one sample tho to let you see the before and after to help show it does work! :meow:

sta.sh/029n1buwzdcx

Disclaimer: This is my trick to take already made lines & make a copy that is more ms. paint savvy without completely re-drawing it from scratch. I make *no* guarantees it will work for you, but assuming you have the same version as me, I am hoping it will!
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