Quit name dropping. The kid can hardly work in mspaint, don't overwhelm him.

dont tell me that; tell Dnegel, he said it, i was just "correcting" him.

:(

I used paint first, then someone told me too get Gimp, and I did. It wasen't really hard too get used to all the tools and such.

The only thing that i miss in MS paint is layers, and maybe a better palette system. For the rest it works fine for me.

I can't really think of a use for layers in pixel art anyway :p

It can come in useful because you make 2 parts seperate, and then can combine them more easily, only with 100% transparency ofcourse, we want full control over our colors.

I use layers on Gimp too make an animation. :)

dont forget transparency and less ****edup saving.

Yeah trancparency is true, but i just put it in photoshop for a sec and make it transparent there,
as for the ****ed up saving, save as .png and you're fine.

I love layers...

Makes it so much easier to work on large amounts of things without loads of new windows...and easier to work on tilesets.

http://img64.imageshack.us/img64/181...lovelayers.png

I agree. There are loads of times I've used layers when satisfied with certain parts of work to continue with details. Easier for sprite work as well.

yeah but what if you want a gif file without grayscale and you only got paint? ^^

Put this in a different topic, this is to help this kid, not to dazzle him with a 100 things he cannot use yet.

Basic job calls for basic solutions people :X

As to how to help him though..

I will just say something obvious

References.

You're making a Call of Duty type server am I correct? Best thing to do is make your work revolved and not directly copied from call of duty and other war and modern day combat type references. Also tutorials are good. Save your work in as PNG files as well.