Amazing Arts Which Were Surprisingly Made in MS Paint

His art is a far cry from the stick men most of us are capable of making on Paint

[Yahoo! News}- It’s known as being the go-to tool for clumsy doodles and childlike scribbles, but it turns out Microsoft Paint can actually be used to create incredible works of art.

The internet went into mourning on Monday as news spread that the programme was being discontinued.

But today Microsoft confirmed that it will continue to offer Paint through the Windows Store – though it won’t included on Windows 10 by default.

This will be music to the ears of US illustrator Pat Hines, who uses the programme for his artistic creations.

He has used the software to create beautiful illustrations for an e-book, as well as producing intricate portraits and incredibly detailed landscape drawings.

Pat says he uses the old-school programme because he ‘sucks’ at using Adobe Photoshop.

But that doesn’t mean his method is easy. He told the BBC: ‘I wouldn’t say it’s easy, it definitely takes quite a while. It could take upwards of 20 hours for just one piece.’

These are some of his astonishing creations.

His art is a far cry from the stick men most of us are capable of making on Paint

This picture of a wedding day was created with the click of a mouse

Intricate details appear in Pat’s Paint art

Pat used Paint for this portrait of a friend’s baby

A detailed depiction of a scene from Harry Potter

Microsoft founder Bill Gates is given the Paint treatment

Silhouetted figures are created on the software

Drawing Using Wacom Intuos Creative Pen Tablet

Apricot, the cat. My first drawing using the Wacom Intuos Creative Pen Tablet.

I drew the above picture using our Wacom Intuos Creative Pen Tablet.

It’s easy to draw with the tablet because it is similar to drawing using a pencil.

But the hard part is, the lines that I draw are not as straight and as smooth as and as the lines that I draw with a pencil because when I’m looking at the tablet, I can’t look at what I’m drawing,

But after the undos and redos, I finished my drawing, and I think that the result is very nice 😉

I really enjoy using the Wacom Intuos Creative Pen Tablet.

Photos: 30 Years Of The Apple Mac

The Macintosh TV – released in 1993 – was an ill-fated attempt to combine the increasingly popular home computer market with a traditional television. It came with a CD-drive and a TV tuner card, and was one of the only Macs ever produced in black. Ultimately, however, it did not prove popular, largely because users couldn’t switch easily between watching television and other programmes. Only 10,000 were made.

In 1984, on January 24th, Apple released the first Macintosh home computer.

It was a revelation – mainly for its incorporation of a graphical display when its rivals could only display text.

The following year, founder Steve Jobs left the company.

Apple continued to make progress with innovative machines, but only after his return in 1996, that Apple’s computers began to achieve the popularity and recognition with new, design-led strategy – Yahoo News.

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In 2005 Apple released the Mac Mini – spiritual successor to the Cube – as proof of how small, and simple, a computer design could. Well received by fans, it was soon superceded by later models. Photo by Sipa Press/REX (510478b)

The Mac Plus fixed a lot of the early glitches with the Macintosh – upping the RAM to 1MB and included a SCSI port, which would allow users to connect other devices such as a printer. It originally came in beige – pictured – but later was the first Mac to switch to the smarter ‘platinum’ grey.

The first Apple Mac – called simply the Macintosh – was released on January 24th, 1984. It had 128 kilobytes of RAM – a modern day iMac has 65536 times as much. It was the first computer in the world to feature a Graphical User Interface – displaying anything other than lines of text on a screen. It cost $2495, and was replaced within eight months by a version with 512Kb of RAM.

Following the success of the G3, Steve Jobs revitalised the company’s laptops, calling this 1999 offering the “iBook” – a naming trend we’re now quite familiar with. While modern – it was one of the first laptops to have WiFi – it didn’t enjoy the same praise as the iMac G3. AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)

The current flagship iMac – released in 2009 and updated last year. It is a whopping 27 inches across, comes with 8GB of RAM and a 3 terabyte hard drive. It’s also only 5mm thin at the edges – a long way from its ancestor the iMac G5, let alone the original Macs.

In 1989, Apple released the Mac Portable, its first ‘laptop’ computer. It weighed 7.16kg, measured 38cm by 37cm by 10cm, had a 40MB hard drive and a floppy disk drive. It also included a mono speaker. The active matrix screen made it hugely expensive: $6,500.

The Mac II was, as the name suggests, the next generation computer from Apple (although several iterations of the Mac I had been released). New out in 1987, it was the first Mac to come as a separate screen and desktop unit, and was the first to display colour, at a resolution of 640×480. The CPU speed was just 16Mhz, and the maximum RAM had risen to 20MB.

The first iMac of the modern generation, this saw Apple revert to an all-in-one configuration – the difference this time being that, unusually and impressively, the entire computer was housed within the flatscreen unit just two inches thick.

After a long absence from the company, Steve Jobs returned in 1996 as CEO. In 1998 he launched the iMac G3. It immediately transformed Apple’s fortunes, and was the first step on their design-led path to success. The multi-coloured, translucent body and all-in-one design was worlds apart from anything else on the market. Photo by Sipa Press/REX (289162b)

Another great design from Apple at a time when all other PCs were still just boxes. The G4 was billed as containing ‘a supercomputer on a chip’ for its ability to carry out a billion calculations in a single second.

The Mac Pro II, announced last year, is Apple’s current flagship computer. It may look like a wastepaper bin, but it is enormously powerful. 12GB of RAM is standard, with twin graphics cards, support for six displays and a quad-core 3.9GHz processor. It’s fair to say they’ve come a long way in three decades…

This is what operating the first Mac looked like. Revolutionary for its time, the basic design of the explorer windows hardly changed for years, and is still recognisable by today’s standards.

Jamalul Kiram III Called For Ceasefire? Is This A Computer Game?

Malaysia has rejected the unilateral ceasefire call by so-called Sulu Sultan Jamalul Kiram III after he ordered his armed followers to illegally entered Malaysia and started the fight by killing two Malaysian police on Friday and another six the next day; please click here.

The Prime Minister of Malaysia, Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak said:

“Sulu militants must lay down arms and surrender unconditionally and operations against them will go on as long as it takes,”

I, like most Malaysian, agree with Datuk Seri Najib.

I just cannot understand how Jamalul Kiram III thinks about the whole incident.

Does he expect Malaysia to agree to a ceasefire whenever he feels like it after what he did?

Malaysia is a sovereign country and we have our own constitution and laws that must be respected by everybody, even the foreigners when they are in our lands.

If Jamalul Kiram III wants to stop the fight that he started, he must order his men to drop their weapons, surrender unconditionally and face the law of our country.

(Please read: Malaysia Can Extradite So-Called Sulu Sultan)

We are living in the modern world where we have to follow the laws and cannot do things as we wish.

This is not a computer game.

If we play computer games like Age Of Empires III The Asian Dynasties, and play against the computer, we can just push the ceasefire button when we are almost defeated and everyone will stop attacking so that we could run back to our own colony and re-attack when we are stronger and have more armies; because it is only a game.

But the Lahad Datu incident is not a game, so he can’t just ask for a ceasefire when ever he wishes after he ordered his men to come to our country illegally with firearms and started shooting at our security forces after the government gave them more than two weeks to solve the matter through discussions.

We must be responsible and sensible if we want to be a leader.

I am grateful Malaysia has a good King and good Sultans who care about the people.

 

Thank You WordPress

I want to thank Jackie from WordPress for returning my blog, Ahmad Ali Karim’s Weblog that was deactivated for three days. I am a serious blogger and I have tried to work very hard to make my blog a successful site. On February 2, 2013, I was shocked to see a malware alert on my blog.

I was really upset and scared and I really did not know what to do. With the help of my family members, our friends and my wonderful blogger friends, we tried to solve the problem but it only got worse. Then my blog was blocked and I could not write any new post which made me really, really sad.

Again my the help of my family I tried to solve the problem but it only got worse until my blog was deactivated and I could not even read my posts anymore. I was very, very sad because I was so scared that I might lost all my posts that I had written since the past five years.

My blog means so much to me because it is a compilation of my works and ideas since I started blogging in August, 2008 when I was five years old and how I learn to be a better writer year after year; and it is a part of my learning and growing up process. I wrote about what is important to me including good values and world news that I think is important and that I want to keep for my future references.

Then Jackie wrote to us and explained that my blog was deactivated due to the US law and the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act, and told us that WordPress found out about my age when they tried to help me with my problems. My parents and I did not know that in accordance with US law and the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act, WordPress needs parental notification in order to allow me to have my own website on WordPress.com. because I am child under thirteen years old. My blog was available just a short time after my father wrote to WordPress, granting his permission for me to blog on WordPress.com..

Now I am really thankful and happy to get back my blog and to be able to write new posts. I want to thank Jackie and WordPress for being very supportive and I am very glad that I blog on WordPress.  But the malware alert in Google Chrome is still not yet solved. I’m going to follow Jackie’s advice to contact Google and try to solve this problem and I hope that my problems will be solved as soon as possible.

Now I need to work harder to get the traffic back to my blog as it used to be before these problems started a month ago. Meanwhile, I’m going to try the custom design and with that I’ll be able to learn lots of interesting things about blog designing. I’m looking forward to learn CSS coding to design my blog and hope that I can make my blog a better site.

Congratulations WordPress for protecting the children’s right and privacy by enforcing the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act and for being very supportive to kid bloggers like me and thanks to Jackie for being so wonderful to me.