How to Enlarge Sprites in Paint

[Blazaking]

Alot of people who use paint for sprite related things have always wondered what the best way to enlarge sprites was. Most people would just tell them to get another program to do it. But I have recently discovered a very simple way to properly enlarge sprites in Paint. Here is an animation explaining how to:

See how simple it is? You can also shrink the sprites back by pressing Ctrl + Num-

Note: If this has already been discovered, then please ignore my stupidity.​

 

[Hibiki]

Wow, I never knew that.

 

[SalamenceCommander]

Thanks for the hint.

 

[Soulweaver]

Didn't know about this feature (MS Paint has a handful of badly documented features), but this doesn't really help the fact that MS Paint is a BAD image editor. It doesn't support transparency, it doesn't support layers, it doesn't support animated GIF or PNG, it doesn't support selection of JPG compression quality, etc.

 

[Oremor]

never knew that. I just usually zoom in...

 

[Blazaking]

Didn't know about this feature (MS Paint has a handful of badly documented features), but this doesn't really help the fact that MS Paint is a BAD image editor. It doesn't support transparency, it doesn't support layers, it doesn't support animated GIF or PNG, it doesn't support selection of JPG compression quality, etc.

Yes but, most people use Paint for splicing or recoloring sprites.

 

[Vasili]

Well... Until i get Photoshop, i'm stuck using Paint...

 

[Dopey]

Well many of us use Paint for splices and recolours, and I'm one of them. And yeah, tnx for the hint, Blazaking

 

[MFreak]

I only use paint for Sprites. Everything else just gets in the way for me... Sure making GIFs requires a few more steps and some extra programs but I never felt I needed PS or GIMP to make sprites...

This shortcut does not work on older Paint programs
If you have an older version of paint you can just select what you want to inlarge.
Click Image on the top toolbar
Then click Stretch/Skew
Then change the 2 values at the top to 200%

 

[Force Fire]

Figured that out a few years back.

 

[Blazaking]

I only use paint for Sprites. Everything else just gets in the way for me... Sure making GIFs requires a few more steps and some extra programs but I never felt I needed PS or GIMP to make sprites...

This shortcut does not work on older Paint programs
If you have an older version of paint you can just select what you want to inlarge.
Click Image on the top toolbar
Then click Stretch/Skew
Then change the 2 values at the top to 200%

I feel the same way. Paint seems much faster and easier to use when dealing with sprites.

How much older versions? Do you mean ones before XP? I'm pretty sure most people have XP or better. And for people who don't, you can just download Paint off the internet.

Figured that out a few years back.

D:

 

[Hibiki]

Thanks Blaze, now I can sprite better.