Raine - That's not too bad for a first try. Random observations:
- From the looks of it, you've saved your signature as a .jpg file type. Or at least I'm guessing this from the look of the border. Whenever you save anything, always make sure the file type is set to .png so that the colors don't get destroyed. Doing it this way will keep the borders and font from becoming pixelated.
- Unfortunately, Paint doesn't do a very good job resizing. Occasionally changing the percentages you shrink it by can help, and sometimes you can zoom in a free hand edit around the icky spots, but usually resizing does end up looking a wee bit rough.
- You say you plan to figure out signatures before avatars. That'll be fine. Avatars are just like signatures except with different demensions and smaller spaces to work with.
- Have you tried placing the text so that it isn't right in the middle? Try picking a slightly more out of the way spot, or slide the text box around to see what looks best when you're placing your text.
Work on those little bits and see try again. It'll also be easier to figure out what needs improvement when it's saved as .png so that the colors haven't been distorted to death...
But yes, resizing is unforunately one of those things that Photoshop does better then Paint at.
For those of you with Word on your computers, you might find it easier to paste the picture into Word first, click and drag the corner to resize it, then hit the printscreen key, then paste into Paint. *hits head on keyboard*
I can't believe I'm forgetting such simple things as using Word to resize...
EDIT: Chari! ^^
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7. How much have you used the program? Have you figured out what different tools do, or are we starting from scratch? I know a lot of functions on Paint, Photo Editor, and Word......but I don't think I know all or them or using them to it's full extent
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Alrighty, you mention Photo Editor. I'm not familiar with that program. Can you get me a screenshot of the program? I'm pretty sure it does things that Paint doesn't.