Thread:Ultimate Mega Gamer/@comment-6380028-20161130180143/@comment-26902116-20161201030343

Teach you using Paint.Net I assume? Okay. Not an issue. 'll start with the gradient because that's easier.

First of all, you want to choose the two colors you're going to use in your gradient. To do this choose  the first color on the color wheel. And to choose your second color click the little white box that is slightly covered by your first colors box then click on the wheel again to choose your second color. Clicking back & forth on the boxes will change you between your two colors. To get to use a gradient go to the Tools windows and click on the gradient tool, it's the blue box with the white line going through it. It's 5 tools down on the right. From there, click on your thumbnail (Make sure you're on a blank layer that is at the very back of all your layers.) You'll see two dots show up on your picture. If you click & drag them around you can move where the color meet & just generally move them around. Once they're set in a way you like, then your gradient is done.

As for the outlines...

First of all, make sure your characters are positioned exactly where you want them. Once you begin making your outline, moving your picture is a really bad idea until you've finished & merged the layers. Once your pictures are in place you want to duplicate both of your images. To do this, click on the little two boxes over laying each other at the bottom of the layers windows. Once both your pictures are duplicated. You want to, separately for each of them, open the adjustments tab at the top of the screen, click on Hue/Saturation & then turn the lightness all the way to one end, it doesn't matter which one. Now if you want to make your outlines colored just pick a color from the wheel then use the paint bucket tool to change the color of the solid colored character. Now you go to the effects tab up the top of the screen & then hover over stylize & click outline. Turn you intensity all the way up & then move the outline to make it bigger or smaller. Make sure that the layer with the outline picture on it is behind the layer with the original picture on it. If you want to blur your outline (It looks cooler that just an outline most of the time) go back up to effects, hover over blur & click gaussian blur. Then make the outline as blurred as you want it. (The more blur the further out it will reach.

Let me know if you run into any issues.