#STEREOGRAM PICTURES WINDOWS 7#

Set the currently selected background color (or 'Color 2' as the Windows 7 version likes to call it) to whichever foreground color you picked for your drawing. Now paste the first slice of the drawing on top of this image. Paste another copy of strip 1 and put the left edge against the right edge of the image so that it is tiled and there is no 4-pixel-wide white gap along the right edge. So I'll be moving it to the left by 4 pixels. However, 4 is a good number and I want it to pop out in this particular instance. If you want it to appear like it's depressed into the page as opposed to popping out, then move it to the right instead. If you want it to pop out more, you can move it further. The ultimate effect of this will make your drawing pop out of the image by a distance that is roughly perceived as four pixels.

Now open a new window of mspaint (from this point out, every time I say 'open a new window of mspaint' make sure the document is 200 x 520 pixels unless otherwise stated).Ĭopy and paste the contents of 'strip 1.png' into this new window and move it to the LEFT by FOUR pixels. Go into the image attributes menu and subtract 200 from the image width. Go back to the original image and flip it horizontally. Then set the image width to 200 which will crop off the right portion. In a new window, copy and paste the image. The height should be identical to the dots image height. This image is 400 pixels wide which is exactly twice the width of the dots image.

So don't make it too wide unless you really want to. Note: the width of this image divided by the width of your dots image (round up the decimal) will be the number of times you will have to do a long and complicated step later on. Windows Vista and lower, you're safe to use whichever tools you want) because you will need to filter out these colors using background transparency which you won't be able to do with anti-aliased edges. Also, it is essential that you use the pencil tool instead of the paintbrush tool (if you're using Windows 7. These two colors must not be any of the colors that exist in your dots image. Use a two colors as background and foreground colors. Open another mspaint window and draw whatever you want. This gives it that authentic magic-eye static texture.Īlrighty, then. (you can access this Stretch and Skew by pressing Ctrl + W) You don't have to do this if you're pretty confident with the evenness of your colors, but it might be a good idea the first few times you try this.ĭone? Now make it twice as big. Then use the airbrush to touch up the seams. Copy the image, move it to the left 50 pixels, then paste a copy and place its left edge against the right edge of the underlying image. If you want to ensure the image tiles well, there is a trick you can do. You will eventually be tiling this image and you don't want there to be clearly visible seams. you don't want to spray too much blue on the left but not too much on the right. It is essential that you make evenly distributed coverage e.g. Take the airbrush tool (you can find it in the brushes toolbox on the Windows7 version of mspaint) and spray it with another color. (You can adjust the image size in the image attributes window which is accessible via Ctrl + E) I've created a blank image that's 100 pixels by 260 pixels. The final image will look like this (there's a sloppily-drawn stick figure in the center of the image): I will be using mspaint and only mspaint.

#STEREOGRAM PICTURES HOW TO#

In this tutorial I will teach you how to draw a stereogram (also known by its trademark name 'Magic Eye').

Stereogram pictures