WesWorld

I am trying to color a drawing in MS Paint and what I am looking to obtain is silver; the best I can come up with are various shades of gray or white. Any suggestions on how best to model bare aluminum?

There's no easy way to do aluminium in MS Paint without creating a gradient, and there's no easy way to make an automatic gradient in MS Paint. Basically, you have to use gray but use a gradient to white to give it "shine", if that makes sense.

I think I've some pseudo-aluminium backgrounds on my laptop, though it's barely sufficient for me. (It looks more like silver spackle, honestly!)

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Originally posted by Brockpaine
There's no easy way to do aluminium in MS Paint without creating a gradient, and there's no easy way to make an automatic gradient in MS Paint. Basically, you have to use gray but use a gradient to white to give it "shine", if that makes sense.

I think I've some pseudo-aluminium backgrounds on my laptop, though it's barely sufficient for me. (It looks more like silver spackle, honestly!)

In a typical MS sort of way (ie Weird) it does make sense. I will keep plugging or change the livery!

What you could try is to take a small section of a real picture with such a fuselage and then pick one of the fuselage colors in that section.

That'll usually get you a shade of gray or off-white. While I used that to pick my colors, I found it was more useful to use gradients to draw aluminium.

Bruce, I'll see over lunch if I can find my gradient PNG.

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Originally posted by Rooijen10
What you could try is to take a small section of a real picture with such a fuselage and then pick one of the fuselage colors in that section.

Which is what I tried and it seems to be working better than playing with a slide bar.

May have something to post later today.

Sometimes, not always. At least you know you got it from an aluminium hull.
... and if that does not work, copy the section and paste a bunch next to each other and on top of each other.