Any ICT teachers around? Need help with MS Paint

[lirael]

I'm doing my medium term ICT planning for next half term and am stuck. What I want to do is import an outline of a Picasso painting and get the students to outline it in black using the line tool, then fill in the outlined shapes using flood fill. Is this possible? I've found a couple of potential templates and have imported them into Paint - the outlining works fine, but when I try to use flood fill, it only fills part of some shapes and others not at all. Any ideas?

[sashh]

That's because although it looks like one colour it is actually several colours.

You might have to spend a week filling all the bits with white and then giving it to students to fill in without the lining stage.

[administrator]

I did something very similar recently. We used celebrity profiles in a 'pop art' style during some work we were covering on Andy Warhol for KS1.To be honest, it took me ages and I couldn't get it to work at school. It was black and white and I couldn't make the fill tool colour, no matter what I tried! In the end, I saved it as a gif file, opened it in Flying Colours and filled it like that. The outline colour could be changed too. The results were actually really impressive!