How to Make Sparkles in Microsoft Paint

Sparkle Effect

Basic Sparkles

1. Open your Paint program. This is located in the start button, under programs, then accessories.

2. Click on the Magnifying zoom button click on 8x.

3. Click on the paintbrush button and select the smallest circle shape.

4. Make a shape that looks like this:
5. Make several of these, because if you only make one, it will not look like anything.

Medium Sparkles

1. Start by just making a simple sparkle
2. Dots one pixel/square away from the design like this: You don't need as many of these as you do the basic smaller ones.

Larger Sparkles

1. Start with the basic sparkle
2. Put pixels/dots in the corners,
3. Put pixels on in the middle of each side
4. Add 2 more pixels on to the end like this
5. Add two diagonal pixels on to the end like this. Don't put too many of these in your picture however, or it will look tacky.