Blinds in MS Paint
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Uses MS Paint | It is Easy as Pie | Written by Shalane
You can do blinds in paint! They look pretty good are add a good effect. I am going to assume that you know a little bit about paint for this tutorial.
Choose an image and open it up into a new paint. I am using the picture below.
Make your window really large. Use the small 1 pixel grey dots to pull it nice and long and wide. Choose a color for your blinds. Then select the line tool and choose a thickness. The thinnest one (the top choice) is the best. Since they are not transparent at all, you shouldn't have too many or too thick.
Draw out a line that is longer than your image. Use the crop tool to select it and then copy and paste it around the width you'd like your lines to be apart. Line them up. Copy it again. Do so until you have enough lines to cover your image.
Then use the crop tool again to move the lines over the image. Make sure you have your background color of the lines as your background color on your color selector and it is set to transparent.
When you are done adding them over, crop your image down to cut off all access lines and there is no extra space. Add a border the same color as the lines using the rectangle tool. Here is the product:
