- 1). Begin choosing the correct drawing tools: Open your drawing program and select its line-segment tool. (This is selected by default in Microsoft Paint, a software that is free with all Windows operating systems.
- 2). Change the size of the brush or pencil tool used to draw the line to 1 pixel wide by one 1 high.
- 3). Change the pen color to black.
- 4). Form the bottom of the car's body: Draw a strictly horizontal line at least 4 inches long.
- 5). Form the car's front and rear ends: Draw vertical line segments upward from the right and left ends of the bottom segment. Make these segments much shorter in relation to the bottom segment's length.
- 6). Form the top of the car's body: Draw segments that start at the top rear of the car's body, rise up to form the car's rear window, level off to form the roof, slope down to form the windshield, then connect to the top right segment of the car's hood.
- 7). Form the wheels: Select your application's circle tool, then draw circles for the wheels. Position the left circle at the same vertical level as the right. Position the front wheel slightly to the left of the car's front, and the rear wheel slightly to the right of the car's rear. This completes the basic car shape. You will now smooth the car at the pixel level.
- 8). Use your application's zoom tool to zoom in close enough to see the individual pixels of the car.
- 9). Set up your anti-aliasing palette: Open a black and white photo in another window of your paint program. Select a region of the photo that shows the widest range of values possible. Ideally, find a region that moves smoothly from absolute black to absolute white. Copy this region to the Windows clipboard.
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Paste the copied region into a clear area of the window containing your car image. - 11
Select your program's tool for editing individual pixels. (In Windows Paint, Select the Pencil tool.) - 12
Begin smoothing your car's jagged lines: Select your program's color eyedropper tool, then use it to select a nearly black value from the photo region you pasted in step 10. - 13
Locate a part of your car where one row of black pixels ends and another begins. This and locations like it are the source of your car's jagged appearance. - 14
Click on the midpoint of the row you found in Step 13. The point will change color from black to the nearly black color you selected in Step 12. - 15
Perform this step repeatedly, until the jaggedness disappears: Use the eyedropper tool to pick successively lighter shades from your pasted photo section. Then, make the pixels in Step 14's row lighter and lighter with these shades, as the row moves closer to the next row of black pixels. - 16
Repeat Step 15 for each pair of jagged rows in your car. This will complete the smoothing of the car's body.
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