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#1 2008-03-08 10:30:37
Best Tool For Making Backgrounds
Paint.NET is the best tool for making backgrounds in Scratch. You can make backgrounds, but not sprites unfortunatly. So go to http://www.getpaint.net/ now! What are you waiting for? Go now and download it. It's free too! And you don't need to change the file type in order to import your background you made with Paint.NET into Scratch.
Yes, I might be advertising on the forums, but I'm just telling people about the program I use to make backgrounds. It's really good. Please don't lock this thread.
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#2 2008-03-08 11:06:16
- relyt12101
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Re: Best Tool For Making Backgrounds
You can make sprites. Paint the sprite and import it into Scratch using the folder button under the stage.
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#3 2008-03-08 11:19:33
Re: Best Tool For Making Backgrounds
I found Artrage to be very good for backgrounds.
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#4 2008-03-08 11:27:30
- relyt12101
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Re: Best Tool For Making Backgrounds
Yeah, I have ArtRage. If you want all its cool features, though, then you have to pay $25.
Look -----> http://www.ambientdesign.com/artrage.html
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#6 2008-03-08 13:10:00
Re: Best Tool For Making Backgrounds
No I mean it saves the whole picture, not just the thing you drew. You can't export things with Paint.NET. I'm suggesting this to people who don't want spend money on things like Effects Lab Pro or ArtRage. Those two might be good, but they cost money. Paint.NET is free.
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#8 2008-03-08 13:58:35
- relyt12101
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Re: Best Tool For Making Backgrounds
Hobbs1100 wrote:
No I mean it saves the whole picture, not just the thing you drew. You can't export things with Paint.NET. I'm suggesting this to people who don't want spend money on things like Effects Lab Pro or ArtRage. Those two might be good, but they cost money. Paint.NET is free.
True. But you can make the white area transparent, so you basically are only saving a small part of the image.
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#10 2008-03-08 15:47:15
- relyt12101
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Re: Best Tool For Making Backgrounds
Love the gradient tool. That's what makes it an excellent background maker!
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#14 2008-03-09 14:45:15
Re: Best Tool For Making Backgrounds
Well Hobbs1100 I didn't copy them, but they weren't completely off my own back, I looked at the tutorials on the forums section and used them to make the images and they weren't actually that hard, the time consuming bit was if I screwed up I didn't notice for a bit and then had to go back to the start just in case (but that's me)
Lovin' Toast
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#15 2008-03-09 14:49:57
- MahoAshley
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Re: Best Tool For Making Backgrounds
I uesd to use that 
it was coolio, then i got SAI, its loads better than Paint.Net was, so i use SAi now, but for those who are using Paint.Net its still a good program
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#16 2008-03-09 15:09:44
- kevin_karplus
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Re: Best Tool For Making Backgrounds
Photoshop Elements (which came with my scanner) is a pretty good program also.
Another free program is GIMP, which will run on many different operating systems (unlike Paint.net).
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#19 2008-03-11 00:58:33
- kevin_karplus
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Re: Best Tool For Making Backgrounds
Andrés, look it up in Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAI_(software)
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