User:CobraStrike/Making Tracks on Slow Computers with MS Paint

I have a slow computer, a Windows Vista, and I have a really hard time navigating the internet or anything on the computer due to its slow speed. Want to make hypothetical tracks without having to deal with the "absurd" but don't want to deal with the quality of the supplemental smaller version that's "too" small? It's a lot harder than doing it on faster computers but its worth it in the long run. Welcome to making tracks on slow computers with MS Paint.

Covering the Track (Major Step 1)

 * Make sure you paste the images into Paint! You can't edit with Paint on images outside of the window, per se, the Internet!

Covering Fish Tracks

 * 1) Find a track that has the map that you want for your hurricane. For example for Caribbean cruisers you might want Hurricane Felix's track or for Cape Verde types you might want Hurricane Igor.
 * 2) If the track happens to not hit any landmasses you're lucky. Use the color picker tool to pick the color of the ocean and then use the paintbrush, rectangle, or any other tool to cover up the old track to match the ocean's color, so it doesn't look like anybody's been there.

Covering Landfalling Tracks

 * 1) Do step one from "covering fish tracks."
 * 2) If the track makes landfall (likely most of your tracks), this is where it gets really hard. Covering the tracks that are in the ocean is easy when you use the color picker to match the ocean's color and then cover up the tracks with the ocean's color.
 * 3) Covering the tracks that are over land is the hard part. Once you cleared the ocean, you now have to find another track image that has similar land sizes. Remember, track maps have different zoom levels, so you have to find another track map with the same zoom size as the one you got in step one. In addition, you also need to choose an image which has an area free of tracks where Image One had a track on. For example I started with Hurricane Earl, but I also got Hurricane Bill's track . As you can see, they have about the same zoom level. Where Hurricane Earl goes over (Nova Scotia, Newfoundland, Labrador), Hurricane Bill does not.
 * 4) Use the freeform select tool to select an area on Image Two free of tracks that Image One had a track on. For example on Hurricane Bill's track I freeform selected an area of Nova Scotia and Newfounland, Labrador.
 * 5) Drag the piece of Image Two over to Image One, affectively covering up the track mess. Ta da!

Making the Track (Step Two)

 * 1) Use whatever color palette you use for intensity and dot away! I prefer using the Saffir-Simpson scale colors, so normally I keep Image Two so I can color pick the colors from it to use on Image One.
 * 2) You can connect the dots like on Wikipedia, but this is not necessary.
 * 3) Save (usually as .png), and upload!