MS Paint Tools - Roareye Black

First of all, the Free-Form Select. This is a tool which allows you to select an object to move or remove but it's free for you to cut the shape to move. When it is active (Click left mouse on it), click and hold the left mouse button on the image and drag the mouse until you cut the shape you want. Release the left mouse and click over the object and move it by the same drag method.

Next is the Select tool. This works the same way as the Free-Form Select, except when you drag while holding the left mouse, it cuts things out in a box. This is used alot as it is more precise than the Free-Form but is more restricted. Free-Form is generally unused anyway and this is preferable due to it's larger accuracy.

The rubber tool is another tool which is rarely used due to it's lack of accuracy. Basically, it colours over whatever you click it over in your secondary colour (Explained in MS Paint : Swatches). This can be achieved by using the right mouse button on the mouse with the more accurate pencil tool and larger Brush tool which renders this unneccesary.

The Fill With Colour tool is a useful tool for covering a large area. If you have a large space you wish to fill with just one colour, select that colour and then this tool. Click over the space you wish to change the colour of and it will change any pixel that is of the same colour, connected to the block you filled. If the same colour is blocked off by another colour, it will not be changed.

The Pick Colour tool is a very useful tool. Select it and drag the mouse over what colour you want that isn't avaliable in your colour palette. Click on it and you'll have it to use.

The Magnifier tool is a spriters best friend. Getting those pixels at 100% magnification will destroy your mind and soul. It's preset is 400% magnification, but you can change the magnification settings by going through View > Zoom > Custom.

The Pencil tool is the spritist's best tool. Accurate (As it fills just one pixel), and extremely easy to use. Simply select it and click on the page and it'll add whatever colour it's set at. Right click to use your secondary colour. Professional Spritists use this mainly because of it's high accuracy and total control.

The Brush tool will be your secondary tool. You can increase or reduce it's size with the + and - keys on your keyboard. It also has two settings, circular and square settings. Same controls as the Pencil, but is generally not as widely used due to it's large crosshair being in the way with precision, pixel-by-pixel work.

The Airbrush tool is a tool that proffessional spritists never use. It can give good effects but it's uncontrolled and usually ends up mucking up your work. If you want a spray-like effect, use the pencil and randomly do dots in the area you want the dots to go.

The Text tool is a tool rarely used. Spriting rarely requires text, but should you need to use it, you'll be aggitated to know that it only works at 100% magnification. The computer will just make funny noises at you if you try it at any other magnification. Usually, spriters make their own text anyway as this doesn't allow for changing it's angle and only allows one tone shading.

The Line tool is an important time saving tool. If you need a straight line for colouring or modelling, select this, hold the left mouse and drag and drop for the line to appear. This can also go in diagonals which can help to make up basic diagonal forms.

The Curve tool is a useful tool when you want to model a certain rounded shape but don't want to make a full circle. Drag and drop to make a line from each position you want it to go to. Then click and hold the left mouse button away from the line and it will follow your movements. Double click again when you've positioned it and it will be finished. If you click too many times and you accidently start a new line, simply select another tool and it'll stop making the new line.

The Rectangle tool is an easy tool to use. Simply select it, click and hold while dragging out. The square will enlarge the further you drag away and shrink the closer you get.

The Polygon tool is rarely used because of it's awkward workings. Basically select it and click on the page to make a start dot, then click elsewhere and a straight line will be made to that point. Click elsewhere and it'll draw a new line from the new point to the recent click. To stop using it, select another tool.

The Ellipse Tool works in the same way as the Rectangle tool, the point you start at gives you the X and Y axis points that the ellipse will be created within. This is useful for basic head shapes before you create the actual head's features.

The Rounded Rectangle tool is a rarely used tool, but should you need a rounded edge rectangle, then select this. It works in the same way as the regular Rectangle tool.