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Right,
now that we’ve flown past the boring stuff we can get on to actually
looking into how to make this ‘Isometric Pixel Art’. Before we
go anywhere you need to have access to a small little program
that ships with most versions of Microsoft (MS) Windows, called
MSPaint.
To access it on most computers running the Windows Operating System
please follow these simple steps. Click on the Start button, scroll
up to the Programs folder, then up to the Accessories folder,
and now once that’s open Paint should be on the list of programs
that appear in the Accessories folder. If not Paint might be under
the next folder up the top of the Accessories folder called Applications.
Anyway, once you’ve found it click on it once and it should load.
Congratulations you’ve just loaded MSPaint and you are one step
into learning about Isometric Pixel Art.
Apart from PAINT, you can use many other programs to draw IPA.
Programs such as Adobe Photoshop and Paint Shop Pro do the job
well (possibly better than paint according to some people) but
are just to darn expensive, hard to get hold of, and way to complicated
for the average beginner to use.
Ok so let’s see what we have on our list so far - 1 computer,
1 copy of MSPaint, 1 mouse, and 1 keyboard. If you’ve ticked everything
off on that small list then you are ready to create some Isometric
Pixel Art.
All is good so far unless of course you want to convert your final
product to an image format that is suitable for the web (please
don’t use bitmaps files on your homepages, it’s terrible!) I find
that GIF files are fine as far as quality wise is concerned. Also
if you are looking for that extra mile in terms of quality and
minimal color loss, use the PNG format. To convert your final
bitmap files into these filetypes please do not save them as this
using MSPaint. Unless you want an extreme loss of color and overall
crappiness for your masterpiece, do not try and save them
as a GIF or PNG using MSPaint. Instead search for a simple BMP
to GIF converting program to save your files. Or if you are a
lucky person you will have access to programs such as Adobe Photoshop
or Paint Shop Pro, in which case you should save your bitmaps
as GIF or PNG files using these top quality programs for a top
quality outcome.
*Throughout this tutorial the only program we will be using and
discussing is Microsoft Paintbrush. Please, if you don’t have
access to this program anywhere, do not bother continuing the
tutorial until you find it.
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