Q&A for How to Make a Gradient in MS Paint

When you go to the "Resize and Skew" part, there's a box that's labeled "Maintain Aspect Ratio." This box keeps the ratio between height and width the same, so unchecking it will allow you to change one measurement without changing the other.

If you see under the horizontal and vertical values there is a check box that says, "Maintain aspect ratio," untick that.

First, you would make the gradient in another image and save it. Next, you would open the image with the character. Make the hair a color that's not the same color as the background or any color that anything else is using, and change Color 2 to that. Turn on "Transparent" selection from the "Select" drop-down menu. Do the keyboard shortcut Ctrl+A, and cut the image. Ctrl+A selects the whole image. Press the drop-down menu from the clipboard. Choose "Paste from" and choose the image with the image. Resize the gradient if you need to. Then do Ctrl+V to paste the original image. Move the image so you are satisfied with the gradient.

You may have skipped an instructional step, or you may have misread it. Try starting over and following the instructions very closely.

Copy the code (ending with "" below into Notepad: A Background Linear Gradient. Save the file, naming it "MyHappyGradient.html" and specifying "Save as type:" to be "All Files (*.*)". Open MyHappyGradient.html in your browser and see the nice colors. Change the color names with Notepad and see new gradient.For limitless variations of gradients, go to the W3Schools website.

MS Paint did not change in Windows 10, so it will work just the same as if you are using Windows 7 or 8.