@@anuraglodhi63 it's a reference to some toy that had a screen, and could be drawn on with a similar directional system. The toy erases the drawing after you shake it.
@@pyrieltliterally called the etch a sketch, you would use a little pen thing to “etch” a line into the (most of the time) aluminum powder, and then shake it to remove the “etch”
I just looked it up! I need one on Linux too. Kolourpaint and Pinta looking like the best! Pinta looks to have basic photo editing on top of MSPaint qualities where Kolourpaint seems to be a closer 1:1 match. I haven’t tested. I too only run windows in a virtual machine on Linux 🤓
You can also use the eraser as a color replacer. It’s been years but I think you set the color you want to “erase” as the background color, the color you want to replace it with as the foreground, then hold shift or space or something with the eraser.
You can also hold shift (or maybe Ctrl or hell, maybe even space, can't remember now) and click and drag for straight lines. Horizontal, vertical, and diagonal.
Dude MS paint has been the defining tool of every effective presentation in my life, if its a dungeon strategy or program logic description. It’s simply the most straightforward tool ever.
I have been unironically drafting engineering drawings in Ms paint for 8 years. I have a $4000 AutoCad (3 years) license, turbocad, tinkercad, and FreeCAD installed
Right, straightforward! I liked the prtscr and paste it in paint to edit and save a portion and you can do it without crashing because paint takes so little resources. I'm pretty sure Linux has an easy to use, low resource tool for that but it's probably less straightforward because you know,soo many options and enhanced features... -.-
I remember as a kid zooming in to the pixel level and creating this really specific pattern copy pasting bigger and bigger squares of it and then seeing what it looked like when zoomed out.
@@masterkeef420for me, MS paint + screenshots is king. I can splice pictures together easily, or crop it pixel perfect to them paste individual characters or backgrounds into Word or Slides. The quick copy, paste, print screen, crop buttons make it soooo fast everything else seems frustrating.
@@masterkeef420 you can use ctrl + prt sc to copy whats currently on your monitor, then paste it into paint and you can alter any way you choose. It is the easiest way to screenshot on a PC. Theres just one big one for you
As an MS Paint wizard myself, my favorite secret feature is color replacement. Using the eraser, if you right click instead of left click you will replace instances of the slot 1 color with the slot 2 color. I use this all the time as a sort of quick masking tool. You can do neat stuff like draw a shape with the binary pencil, and then shade edges to create form super fast.
if magic sudenly became real this man would figure out how to become an archmage by the end of the week and then begin teaching everyone hwo to do it too.
They just need to add layers to MS Paint, and it WILL be king. Edit: Guys, I mean an ACTUAL layer system like other digital art programs have. The transparency layering thing is cool, but not what i was getting at. And 3D paint's layers are basically allowing you to select the individual object you import, but still no layer panel.
You can do "layers" by setting transparency and dragging selections on top of each other. I also used to make 2x6 pixel jpegs, set them as stretched desktop backgrounds to generate gradients to screenshot and put back into paint.
😂😂😂 I love showing people this kind of stuff. My favorite and what blows me away is a lot of people don’t know about Alt Tab to switch between different windows.
I've used Paint a _lot_ over the years, including in professional settings, and I never knew this. So many times I've been using the line tool struggling to make a perfectly level 1px line. This is a game changer
@@jaydenwilton5279No you fool! that doesnt shake it good enough! You need to take each indiviudal computer part, amd shake it like you"re going to prank a friend with a overfizzing soda. If you only shake the computer tower like a mere peasant, it leaves artifacts.
@@SawBSketch instructions unclear: motherboard is sticking out of monitor, ram is in the ceiling and graphics card went through the window... into the rain.
Apparently, you can just use the spacebar in place of the left-click, which can reduce the stress on your finger when you need to do delicate movements. Also, hold shift while dragging the mouse. That helps you make vertical and horizontal lines, but with the shape tools, it helps make perfect squares and circles.
You need high school maths to calculate the distance of your growlight to your plants. You never know when this stuff becomes usefull. edit: I'm not even joking. lets say 1 light with dimmer 100% = 560 ppfd at 20inch distance. But you only want 250 ppfd cause your "medicinal plants" are too young and brigther light will damage them. 100% = 560 x% = 250 (250x100)/560 = around 45%. You need to turn down the dimmer to 45% or 40%. Or you can use the same calculation to get the distance at 100%. Yep, if our teachers had use this as test question in class, all of us would pass with an A+ :D
More than you know. Before it was MS paint, before Windows itself, it was PC Paint, sold with mice for DOS systems. Microsoft used to license a lot of good stuff. I bet this feature goes back to 1985...
The way I silently gasped at this revelation, lmao. I can, will, and should use this for whimsy. Physically, I'm a tax paying adult, but mentally, I'm still in the Blockbuster ballpit.
Wtf kinda block buster did you have with a fucking ball pit??!? The only ball pit in my town got shut down after the 8th child went missing... Still think little timmy is at the bottom of that ball pit...
@JuniortheDerp It was a relatively small town, and I don't think it was around that long. This was a good 20 years back, though, so I may very well be misremembering which store it was on account of me being a small child.
I was so high when I wrote that comment and for the life of me I can't even tell what I meant by it and still asking myself "why are people liking this?" @@JuniortheDerp
Paint is my go to for high end serious power point engineering. Million dollar presentations have been sketched up in that beautiful, simple, wonderful program.
HIS SHORTS SAVE MY LIFE AND MAKE THINGS AMAZIGN EVERY TIME LMFAOOOOOOOOO YESSSSSSS ms paint and just old paint is honestly absolutly amazing i love you
Dude I still use paint when making art because of how many times I’ve tried to do things on other apps and find out it just doesn’t work. Bonus points for paints simple but hella useful print options. Last time I tried to print an image on 2 pages next to each other, my wife’s Mac was trying to have me split it between cells on a freaking excel sheet
MS paint is king. I made a 600 miles snowmobile map with highlighted route using MS paint and like 6 cut sections from different map images 18 years ago. This was the early days of GIS most things were point A to point B like MapQuest. I remember being proud of that 6 page funky put together printed map it got us there with little confusion at intersections. This was before we had GPS on phones to know where exactly we were.
MSP is surprisingly versatile for binary brush drawing despite its lack of layers. It's pretty nice honestly. Has even more less known features than this even.
for our younglies : the shake thing is a reference to LCD screens toys you bought to children in 90', you had to shake it to erase the drawing in order to start again.
@@NearlyH3adlessNick Given the spacebar thing, I actually believe him and thought shaking the image would delete it. :( I grew up with Mario Paint and it had fun little things like that to wipe out what's on the screen, but oh well.
My favorite thing to do has always been to spray a bunch of colours on one spot, then select the sprayed dot, and by holding shift you can basically drag the spray around like a brush. It was mindblowing when I was like 9.
MS Paint was mine and my best friends first "video game" and we "played" it for hours. We didn't know this trick, though. Thanks for sharing your wisdom! :)
As a digital artist who started on ms paint HOW DID I NOT KNOW THIS!!! Thankyou thor for this blessing holy shit; now i am off to break my digital art friends minds.
Thor never fails to give me wildly useless information that I will gladly take to my grave
Get this mans a comment, 5k likes and nothing
My comment is i agree like the other 5.5k ppl :)
hoMEOWner
I'll leave now.
Commentih-Tron acitve: 😢
The phrase take to your grave means you won't tell anyone tho....
As a 36 year old man, I feel fundamentally betrayed atm
Why he told the truth
@@Grzesiol Because none of us knew for sooooooo long.
As a fellow 36 year-old I understand and share your sentiment.
We deserved to know this sooner. SMH
The 'shake it up part' was just him dragging it off screen. @@Grzesiol
This man is simultaneously a 90-year-old sage and a 5-year-old child.
The real wisdom comes from being both. That’s why he’s the best.
He invented 39009 💀
Uncle iroh mindset lmao
@@tateha1761do you mean 318008? Or am I just missing some info
@@H-flo-55 i think it's the lower case, modern (just put an e on the end of the word monke style) version. Idk tho your guess is good as mine.
"You shake it up and it's gone."
You don't gotta troll me like that 😂
that took me forever to realize what actually happened i had to come back and comment this XD
I still don't get it.
@@anuraglodhi63 it's a reference to some toy that had a screen, and could be drawn on with a similar directional system.
The toy erases the drawing after you shake it.
@@pyrieltliterally called the etch a sketch, you would use a little pen thing to “etch” a line into the (most of the time) aluminum powder, and then shake it to remove the “etch”
@@CT-1035I thought the etch a sketch used little knobs to turn and that’s why it was called an etch a sketch
This is one of those channels that I'm really glad to have come across browsing shorts
"I will never use windows again after switching to linux"
_etch-a-sketch MS paint_
"I may use windows again"
Sounds like it's time to clone Mspaint....
wine /usr/bin/ms_paint.exe
I will check if it works with KolourPaint
Is this not a thing on TuxPaint?
I just looked it up! I need one on Linux too. Kolourpaint and Pinta looking like the best! Pinta looks to have basic photo editing on top of MSPaint qualities where Kolourpaint seems to be a closer 1:1 match. I haven’t tested. I too only run windows in a virtual machine on Linux 🤓
Opens MS Paint:
"Well I'll be damned"
I already had MS Paint open. This information may just be life changing.
I love paint, default program 😁
yh lol
fun fact you can also do this with screen shotting for more accurate screenshots
I have a question, does the shaking thing erase?
Omg. MS paint will always hold a special place in my heart, but this blows my mind. I NEVER KNEW THIS TECHNIQUE.
Ancient knowledge
You can also use the eraser as a color replacer. It’s been years but I think you set the color you want to “erase” as the background color, the color you want to replace it with as the foreground, then hold shift or space or something with the eraser.
We grew up on etch-a-sketch, WHY WASN’T THIS ADVERTISED!
You can also hold shift (or maybe Ctrl or hell, maybe even space, can't remember now) and click and drag for straight lines. Horizontal, vertical, and diagonal.
@@pembertr0nyou may just be thinking of the color1 and color 2 option where you can have 2 active colors to use at a time.
"MS Paint is my favorite progam ever."
Who would have thought.
Yea, we know
THIS MAN HAS THE BEST UA-cam SHORTS
robots are taking the jobs of etch-a-sketches too now
I took a fat ass rip out the bong right before reading this you bastard 💀😭😭
“Boy, what did I tell you about telling white people the truth?” Robert Freeman
Are they made of thurmite though
Dude MS paint has been the defining tool of every effective presentation in my life, if its a dungeon strategy or program logic description. It’s simply the most straightforward tool ever.
I have been unironically drafting engineering drawings in Ms paint for 8 years. I have a $4000 AutoCad (3 years) license, turbocad, tinkercad, and FreeCAD installed
Right, straightforward! I liked the prtscr and paste it in paint to edit and save a portion and you can do it without crashing because paint takes so little resources.
I'm pretty sure Linux has an easy to use, low resource tool for that but it's probably less straightforward because you know,soo many options and enhanced features... -.-
@@BorisDamirTrue, programmers build things for programmers which ends up complex to use and feature heavy.
@@BorisDamirAt least on Wayland there's Flameshot which does cropped screenshot + drawing over the screenshot in a light easy to use package
I remember as a kid zooming in to the pixel level and creating this really specific pattern copy pasting bigger and bigger squares of it and then seeing what it looked like when zoomed out.
congrats, you learned what fractals are
I like how he threw in the "shake it up" part. The arcane knowledge he bestows upon us comes with a price.
The amount of times I've humiliated my boss by busting out MS paint to solve one of his problems.
I'd love to hear from you how MS paint can be used to solve problems
@@masterkeef420never underestimate the power of a poorly-drawn illustrative solution
@@a.w_. I didn't! Nothing wrong with asking where I can apply something to solve problems
@@masterkeef420for me, MS paint + screenshots is king. I can splice pictures together easily, or crop it pixel perfect to them paste individual characters or backgrounds into Word or Slides.
The quick copy, paste, print screen, crop buttons make it soooo fast everything else seems frustrating.
@@masterkeef420 you can use ctrl + prt sc to copy whats currently on your monitor, then paste it into paint and you can alter any way you choose.
It is the easiest way to screenshot on a PC.
Theres just one big one for you
As an MS Paint wizard myself, my favorite secret feature is color replacement.
Using the eraser, if you right click instead of left click you will replace instances of the slot 1 color with the slot 2 color. I use this all the time as a sort of quick masking tool. You can do neat stuff like draw a shape with the binary pencil, and then shade edges to create form super fast.
This is also very useful. I try to remember it the next time I will do something in Paint in 2031.
I learned this as a middle schooler watching tutorials on how people made custom pokemon sprites :D
Dude i love you, thank you so much! I draw in ms paint for years and i didn't know this, you made my life a lot easier!!
same oh my god @@thatguyinthecorner4648
I knew this as a kid! It was a feature back in mspaint on windows xp even, I used it for color pallette stuff with video game sprites
The amount of arcane knowledge this man possesses is astonishing.
if magic sudenly became real this man would figure out how to become an archmage by the end of the week and then begin teaching everyone hwo to do it too.
@@preistestdragon4634 And randomly teach people how to troll with it in a none destructive way 😂
Just one of the people im glad to come across whilst browsing shorts ❤
Ah yes, knowledge I had forgotten long ago.
They just need to add layers to MS Paint, and it WILL be king.
Edit: Guys, I mean an ACTUAL layer system like other digital art programs have. The transparency layering thing is cool, but not what i was getting at. And 3D paint's layers are basically allowing you to select the individual object you import, but still no layer panel.
Windows 11 does this.
@@masonashlock5461 Guess ill be installing that in about 7 years then.
You can do "layers" by setting transparency and dragging selections on top of each other.
I also used to make 2x6 pixel jpegs, set them as stretched desktop backgrounds to generate gradients to screenshot and put back into paint.
jesus christ lmfao, I'd never but that is huge brain@@kerbalairforce8802
they already did that
Wait, 29 years on this earth and NOW i know about this?!
Edit: 1k likes holy shit thx so much!
2nd edit: 2k likes wtf is going on?
Don't feel bad - I'm 42 and TIL.
36.. and ist new to me tho.....txh Thor🎉
Dude, fkn same😂
Yeah same that's crazy
Id consider myself lucky as i will turn 18 in 10 days xD
MSPaint and Notepad. The best applications MSoft has ever made.
Until extremely recently, Microsoft did not make MS Paint. They just licensed it from zsoft.
Notepad++ is so much better
@@HavocBlack ngl i prefer windows notepad for everything, including programming (ive written whole python programs in notepad)
😂😂😂 I love showing people this kind of stuff. My favorite and what blows me away is a lot of people don’t know about Alt Tab to switch between different windows.
@@KrazieB7 Or winkey + v for clipboard history.
I've used Paint a _lot_ over the years, including in professional settings, and I never knew this. So many times I've been using the line tool struggling to make a perfectly level 1px line. This is a game changer
100% got me with the shake it up bit. Picture stayed no matter how hard I shook my monitor.
the monitor just displays things. You'll need to shake the actual computer tower to erase the image. Hope this helps!
@@jaydenwilton5279 IT WORKED ! it erased everything and the screen turned blue :)
@@jaydenwilton5279No you fool! that doesnt shake it good enough! You need to take each indiviudal computer part, amd shake it like you"re going to prank a friend with a overfizzing soda. If you only shake the computer tower like a mere peasant, it leaves artifacts.
man's watching shorts on PC
@@SawBSketch instructions unclear: motherboard is sticking out of monitor, ram is in the ceiling and graphics card went through the window... into the rain.
NO WAY! I find this way more epic that I probably should. Thank you.
Apparently, you can just use the spacebar in place of the left-click, which can reduce the stress on your finger when you need to do delicate movements.
Also, hold shift while dragging the mouse. That helps you make vertical and horizontal lines, but with the shape tools, it helps make perfect squares and circles.
@@Quintessence4444 Me too - this is the first thing that worked, and the absolute most helpful so far as well!
I love you man, been looking for a comfy way of creating papermaps using Paint, going to use this for ever =)
This is tickling my brain in a dangerously addictive way... Its like I am playing a never ending game of snake
I actually learned this in elementary school from our computer lab teacher because she found it on accident the day before 😂
This unlocked that memory
i used to draw penises in elementary
This guy has perfected the UA-cam Short.
This is more useful than 98% of the information I learned in high school.
Nothing replaces that top 2% which is of course that the mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell.
You need high school maths to calculate the distance of your growlight to your plants.
You never know when this stuff becomes usefull.
edit: I'm not even joking.
lets say 1 light with dimmer 100% = 560 ppfd at 20inch distance. But you only want 250 ppfd cause your "medicinal plants" are too young and brigther light will damage them.
100% = 560
x% = 250
(250x100)/560 = around 45%. You need to turn down the dimmer to 45% or 40%.
Or you can use the same calculation to get the distance at 100%.
Yep, if our teachers had use this as test question in class, all of us would pass with an A+ :D
It seems you weren't paying attention to the useful stuff.
I remember I used to do this when I was little. Somehow I forgot it after 15 years. Thankyou for unlocking my childhood memory. 😂
U r literally my favorite person on the internet. Thank u for being uou
that's so fun actually
This has been legitimately useful for a logo design competition i'm in
Soooo Did anybody make a game with Paint?
Probably Doom xd
does homestuck count?
@@Amnskary DOOM community has run DOOM in ms notepad mate.
We're sick in the head collectively.
Undertale
@@KittiLumpo bingo
I've watched a fair amount of videos on this channel, but this is the one that finally made me subscribe.
finally. after all these years, I finally find an ms paint trick that I didn't already know. I love this program
A generation of artists were raised on good ol paint
More than you know. Before it was MS paint, before Windows itself, it was PC Paint, sold with mice for DOS systems. Microsoft used to license a lot of good stuff. I bet this feature goes back to 1985...
I actually remember finding this out and playing with it a bit, but I never used if afterwards. Nice to get reminded of it again.
The way I silently gasped at this revelation, lmao. I can, will, and should use this for whimsy. Physically, I'm a tax paying adult, but mentally, I'm still in the Blockbuster ballpit.
Wtf kinda block buster did you have with a fucking ball pit??!?
The only ball pit in my town got shut down after the 8th child went missing...
Still think little timmy is at the bottom of that ball pit...
@JuniortheDerp It was a relatively small town, and I don't think it was around that long. This was a good 20 years back, though, so I may very well be misremembering which store it was on account of me being a small child.
"a small bear or a big cave. That's the question"
- William Shakespeare.
Is the answer yes??!?
I feel like the answer is yetsi.
I was so high when I wrote that comment and for the life of me I can't even tell what I meant by it and still asking myself "why are people liking this?" @@JuniortheDerp
@@ahmedsultani3028because we can, and you can't stop us
That's my first date line
Best thing the internet has taught me in 34 years.
MS Paint is a wildly underrated program.
The Big Lez Show was made in MS paint. That show is truly art
BIG LEZ MENTION ‼️‼️🗣🗣🗣
Actually already knowing about the thing Thor shows us fir once feels special.
Paint is my go to for high end serious power point engineering. Million dollar presentations have been sketched up in that beautiful, simple, wonderful program.
HIS SHORTS SAVE MY LIFE AND MAKE THINGS AMAZIGN EVERY TIME LMFAOOOOOOOOO YESSSSSSS ms paint and just old paint is honestly absolutly amazing i love you
MS Paint has some surprising tricks up its sleeve! So cool to discover new things about a classic program.
Dude I still use paint when making art because of how many times I’ve tried to do things on other apps and find out it just doesn’t work.
Bonus points for paints simple but hella useful print options. Last time I tried to print an image on 2 pages next to each other, my wife’s Mac was trying to have me split it between cells on a freaking excel sheet
I'm writing this down for when I'll be building my own painting software
Wait till he finds out there's a black & white mode that replaces the colours with patterns. (in windows 10 at least.)
Ok, that shake it up part made me feel kiddish again inside. Thank you.
this is the first time i've ever saw this dude draw something that actually helps us understand what he's taljing about haha
instructions unclear, i cant take my mouse out of ms paint
can't think of a joke atm pretend this is a funny related comment
LMAO SO TRUEEEE best comment ever
3k likes and 1 comment??? I'll fix that!!!
On god bro
😂😂😂
true
I've been on the internet for almost 30 years and you just changed my life forever.
Others giving common tips. This man out here spreading real wisdom.
MS paint is king. I made a 600 miles snowmobile map with highlighted route using MS paint and like 6 cut sections from different map images 18 years ago. This was the early days of GIS most things were point A to point B like MapQuest. I remember being proud of that 6 page funky put together printed map it got us there with little confusion at intersections. This was before we had GPS on phones to know where exactly we were.
I was the first to figure this out in elementary school during computer class, that was a really big day for all of us
I almost can’t believe people didn’t know this about Paint, that’s how we get such perfect lines
I have no idea what a full stream with this guy is like, but god damn, his tidbits of information are funny
how do people ACTUALLY NOT KNOW THIS?? This is like the funnest thing ever
MSP is surprisingly versatile for binary brush drawing despite its lack of layers. It's pretty nice honestly. Has even more less known features than this even.
for our younglies : the shake thing is a reference to LCD screens toys you bought to children in 90', you had to shake it to erase the drawing
in order to start again.
Since learning this I’ve actually used this to make rough drafts of game maps
This changes everything. I would love to get this knowledge while im still a kid, the time where i just tinker with ms paint
"Then you take it and shake it up." Had me laughing.
It's like when a fake magician throws something away real fast so the kids don't notice, then opens his hand, and there's "Tadaa!! Nothing!!" Lol
When he said it, I pictured somebody shaking their monitor 😂
@@BilobateDrip **Shaking monitor vigorously** _"Why. Are. You. Sleeping!?!"_
@@NearlyH3adlessNick Given the spacebar thing, I actually believe him and thought shaking the image would delete it. :( I grew up with Mario Paint and it had fun little things like that to wipe out what's on the screen, but oh well.
tbf, you can shake active windows to minimize all other windows
My favorite thing to do has always been to spray a bunch of colours on one spot, then select the sprayed dot, and by holding shift you can basically drag the spray around like a brush. It was mindblowing when I was like 9.
This deserves way more views.
Dammit Thor you're too educational.
Dude has no idea how much I always wanted an Etch-a-sketch when I a little. Childhood want acquired.
I love the low-degree trolling.
MS Paint was mine and my best friends first "video game" and we "played" it for hours. We didn't know this trick, though. Thanks for sharing your wisdom! :)
I don’t know who this guy is, or why his videos even get shown to me, but I can’t stop watching them when they do pop up 😂
That feature comes directly from older versions of paint because back then not everyone had a mouse
I thought I knew windows stuff (like changing the image from windows 98 start loading screen), but this man, this man knows much more, damn
This is way more fuckin fun than I thought it would be
I've been recommended/seen thia video 1000 times.
“MS Paint is my favorite program ever.”
We know, Thor. We could tell.
As a digital artist who started on ms paint
HOW DID I NOT KNOW THIS!!!
Thankyou thor for this blessing holy shit; now i am off to break my digital art friends minds.
The fact that you can even shake it to clear it is super fun
my favorite chaos god at work
Oh man, I had flashbacks to when I used to paint with the arrow keys in the Painter on my MSX2 machine.
Thank youfor sharing your incredible talent with us on TikTok!
As the legend says:
"Photoshop is for amateurs, Paint is for the legends."
This was the first video i saw of you, i subbed asap. Never dissapointed.
Thanks man. This will help me to draw straight lines more effectively.
Instructions unclear, now i have a rat inside my computer...
And that's why Paint will always hold a spot on the taskbar till the day I die.
MS Paint; the platform of the Big Lez Show and its auxiliary series.
MS Paint gangsta.
This clip made me go down a rabbit hole of his UA-cam Shorts and man... He really feels like the older Brother i never had.
I loved ms paint as a kid, since I was broke as hell, I would play with it for hours, so I knew this one.
MS Paint and Excel are the only two things I miss when I switched to linux and I still miss the features to this day
I love that I learn new weird shiii in every short
Crazy. Discovered this by accident in 7th grade and never thought about it again
this guy actually knows all the keyboard shortcuts
This will remind the real OGs of Anticipation for NES.
i instantly opened up msPaint, got me feeling like a kid again
That was amazing thanks for this!