Huh? The blood and coffee thing is just about how unorthodox mediums like Paint can be used effectively.

imo MSPaint is great for its simplicity, but lately I have been liking GraphicsGale a lot.

There are many reasons why mspaint is pretty ♥♥♥♥ compared to graphics gale:

To change colours you have to go to that edit colours window instead of just having colour options on screen all the time.
These apply to the windows 7 version:
All the brushes and shapes are now anti-aliased.
Where the click point of the cursor is is very slightly ambiguous/misaligned with the tools.

Other than that there are no cons I can think of other than it being incredibly basic since it has pretty much no pros either (except what would be standard in any other editor. Actually the resizing on the fly is pretty cool and pretty much the only reason I ever use paint.

Now in Graphics Gale you have:
Up to 4000% zoom as opposed to 800%.
RGB and HSL sliders without having to go to another screen.
Displayed full palettes. (I have mine set to default to the CC palette)
Grid options for tiled work/sprite sheets, including snap to grid.
Layers (though I never use them).
Right click colour select.
Preview window that displays your image in 1x or 2x,3x,4x.

Also you can change indexing etc in settings, handy for CC mods.

I use MSPaint because the other ones are too complicated for me because I'm a conforming non-conformist.

I thought you used it because you're a conforming non-conformist.

I still need to get the laser trail right, same with the shadow.

EDIT:

Yeah, better shadows now.

Double clicking a color brings up the color window. Windows 7 paint is crap, no argument there.



Actually MS paint has a super secret 1000% zoom only super leet MS Painters know of The rest I'll agree are handy, but I only like Gale for its color counter.

I have a challenge!

Using the following image as inspiration, make a 640x480 game menu backdrop/wallpaper.

It's an orange by the way. There are also bananas and carrots.

The game is a cross between Pacman and Legend of Zelda.
The winner gets bonus experience points and a name in the credits!

Otherwise I'll have to make it myself, and I'm doing all the game work as it is.

I forgot about that but it's not in the windows 7 version.

lolturret

Done in Paint with my mouse.

EDIT: Sorry, didn't realize it was so freaking huge.

Mysterious. I like it.
Got that dark and brooding feel to it too.
Kinda like TS TS TSS TSSS TSSS TS

Thank you. It's really the first of this style I've done so far, and I like how it turned out.

Study Break