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Drawing Pixels Using Paint Shop Pro 7:

- Follow the steps below to make this pixel ^^:-

1.Open Psp 7. Go to File-->New. Make both the width and height 15. Under the width and height, you can choose the background color. Make it transparent =).

2.Now Zoom in as much as you can until the window looks big enough for you to work in.

3.Choose the paint brush tool[]. But first make sure you have the Tool Options window open. If not go to View-->Toolbars and put a little check near where it says Tool Options Palette. Okay now on the Tool options window click on the little paint brush on the top right. A drop down menu should appear like this:

Choose 'Normal'. The shape should be square, and the size: 1. Now on the very top left choose the Cursor and Tablet Options and check 'Use Precise Cursors' and 'Show brush outlines' if theyre not already checked.

4.Start drawing your icecream pixel by following these outlines (you can use any color you want, but i chose medium brown for the cone and medium blue for the koala icecream's head):
Note: I chose a white background color so it'll be easier for you to see =)

4.Now to color the icecream cone! Do not use the Flood fill because it'll color outside the lines. Just choose a lighter shade of blue and (still using the paint brush tool) color in the head and ears of the koala icecream. Then choose a lighter shade of brown and color in the cone.

5.After you're done, you can shade in your icecream cone in any way. But the important thing is is to decide where you want the light to hit your icecream cone(from either the left or right side). I chose the right side, then lightened the color i filled in the head with and put a line going downwards like this:

6. To make your pixel transparent, first change the paint brush's background color to white:

Then go to Colors---> Set Palette Transparency.

Change the options to the same options shown above.

After you click on ok, another window will appear. Choose 'Set the transparency value to the current background color'(make sure the its white). Now you can save your pixel! =)!

Thats it! This is how it should look like now:

You can do whatever you want with it =). Change some colors, add shades and stuff. Hope this tutorial helped you out!^^ Please inform me if theres something wrong or if the steps are too complicated by going to the Contact me page. Thank you!=)