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If it was all done in MS Paint you will have a hard time editing the image. None of the components of the page will be separate entities.
With other, dare I say it, High tech image editing sofware you will be able to easily recreate the effect. If I have understood how you have described the logo, It sounds like you need to add smoothing to a path. All the big 3 (Photoshop, Fireworks and Paintshop Pro) support this kind of manipulation of paths to reduce the 'jaggy' effect you describe. I don't think there is anything like this in MSPaint.
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If you are stuck with Paint and that's your only option, the best thing to do is to resize the image first. Make it huge. Blow the file dimensions up at least 200%. I'm not sure how to do that in Paint. Then increase the zoom so you can see the individual pixel borders.
Then, using your paintbrush tool on a small setting, manually fill in the curves to make them smoother.
That's the only approach I can recommend. If you haven't got any tools, backbreaking (eye-breaking!) labor is the way to go. I've done this sort of thing before and it's obnoxious, but if you lack skill and talent and tools, then working at insanely high resolutions and doing it pixel-by-pixel is the only way to get an acceptable result.
I agree with dragonlady.
MS Paint is a great program for small image jobs but can be a little tricky when you get faced with something like you mentioned. It is possible that the ONLY way to do it is as dragonlady said although it is very tedious, especially if the shapes you wish to 'smoothen' are not block colour.
:) eggy_ricardo :)
PS To resize the image as mentioned open the image then go to Image(menu) > Stretch/Skew and input the %s you want the picture to increase to (200% as suggested is probs best).
Hope this helps!
To resize the image as mentioned open the image then go to Image(menu) > Stretch/Skew and input the %s you want the picture to increase to (200% as suggested is probs best).
Thanks! I'm not really familiar with MS Paint. I use Photoshop almost exclusively... but they got Photoshop about the same time they hired me, so the other woman in my department pretty much sticks to Paint. She can do some amazing things in it, but it takes her about two hours to do what I can do in PS in 30 minutes.
She relies heavily on pixel-by-pixel editing. It's not hard, but it's mind-numbing.
So if you only have this one graphic that you need to edit, and you won't be doing any more work, that's what I recommend. Unless you can beg/bribe/threaten/hire someone with more expertise and software to do it for you.
The reason the edges of the image look jagged is probably because they're not anti-aliased, which can't really be fixed after the fact without using the methods already described here... Anti-aliasing is when the graphics software blends the edges of the image ever-so-slightly with the background color of the image, creating smoother looking edges.
I don't think it would take you a whole weekend to get the desired effect; just install it, load your picture, get yourself a beer and play a little around...
Paint Shop Pro 7 reduced from £100 to £ 30 so I grabbed it and a copy of "Teach Yourself Paint Shop Pro 7 in 24 hours"
Good deal! :) You'll no doubt save more than $30 worth of hassle being able to do simple graphics stuff for yourself. Have fun!
