Heres a tutorial on how to play the game and how to send in your answers...a lot of you guys have been sending in PM's asking about how to move the pictures around in paint...so I thought id do a tutorial for all of you guys, because I think that might be a reason for some of you to not play the game..but we want all of you take part in the contest and enjoy it as much as we did putting this game together...ill try my best to post a step by step tutorial..so here goesss :)
Alright so ill be working with the sample picture only...and this is how paint will look like when you open up the pictures..
To move the pictures around you need to select a piece from the puzzle and move it..to move a picture you need to use this button from the left bar:
After you have clicked on that box, choose a piece that you want to move around first..to do that click on the piece and drag your mouse to the size of the piece like so :
Once a piece has the dotted box around it, the piece is free to move...once you have the box around the piece..click on the picture and drag it to a side where there is enough space to solve the puzzle *if you want to increase the size of your paint screen go the very bottom and right of the screen and wait for an arrow to show up...click on that and drag until desired size is reached:
Once you have learned how to move the pieces around, its quite easy...just keep moving the pieces around where you think they need to be by looking at the original picture...to get the best results, make sure to have the box outlined quite right on the size of the picture...heres a half done picture for you
Heres a full done picture...notice that it isn perfect..but its got the main picture down :D
Now to take out all the white blanks...click on that square button again and select the whole region of white boxes:
After you've made the selection press Delete..after you've pressed delete...this is what the screen looks like:
Now to fill in that white space click on the paint bucket:
And at the bottom of the screen choose black (or which ever color it is that is the background color for the puzzle you choose to solve - all the colors that ive posted in the pictures for the contest are here so its shouldnt be hard finding the color of your background)
After you've chosen the paint bucket and the color you desire, point the bucket in the area you want to fill and left click :
And it will fill in the void with the color you choose...
By now you should have a fully done picture...save it and dont forget to save it as a JPEG file
To PM me your answers...first go to http://www.imageshack.us/ - You will have to do this imageshack process twice since you have to send me 2 pics as per the contest rules, you can send me both the pictures in one mail or two if you find it easier doing it that way but make sure to name it as part 1 and 2
Browse the picture you want to send me and resize the picture to 640x480
Then click HOST IT and you will be taken to this page:
Then unclick the box that says this:
Make sure the box in UNCLICKED
Then copy the link under that that says HOTLINK FOR FORUMS (1)
After you have copied that, go to your IF private messenger and begin to send me a message.. in your message toolbar, you should click on the following button:
Clicking that button will make the following window pop up:
Take out the existing http:// thats there before pasting the link you copied from imageshack...you can click on preview if you want to see how the picture will be send to me or you can press Enter
The picture might not appear when you try to send me the mail..it might just come up as a red cross in a white box:
when you click enter...but trust me the picture shows up when I get the email... :) you can check your outbox to make sure that the picture has reached me...so if the picture doesnt show up when you check your outbox, phir koi gadbad zaroor ho gayi hogi...but if its there...believe that it has reached me ;)
PHEWW!!! So thats it...I know its a little tedious..thats why theres a time of one and a half weeks for you guys to work on it..I know all of us have things to do...But this is just a way to have some fun...and please dont be scared to send in your answes *reeno ;) heheh* koi hasne vala nahi hai *saba :) *
So I hope this helps you out...and dont forget to have FUN while playing the game :)
Much loveeeee
AnnJan
Edited by loveabletwinz - 16 years ago