I need to find a program that will allow me to individually shade
pixels on my screen colors of my choice. Preferably I would like a
program that is free, but one that is not would be fine as well. (as
long as it is of a reasonable price for a consumer.)
                       Thanks, Jason F.

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Clarification of Question by jasondf-ga on 23 Aug 2005 08:25 PDT

I wish to find a program that when running, permanently changes the
color of individual pixels on the screen even when other applications
are running. So that, as an example, I could make lets say a large red
dot in the upper left hand of my screen, and keep it like that.

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Request for Question Clarification by nenna-ga on 23 Aug 2005 08:59 PDT

Could you give us a couple examples of how you would like this to
work, your question is a bit vauge.

Nenna-GA

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Clarification of Question by jasondf-ga on 23 Aug 2005 14:18 PDT

I would like it to work in such a way that it could override the
colors of individual pixels on the screen, meaning that if I was
running the program in the backround, and opened a hypothetical
program that just made your screen entriely white, the pixels that i
seleced would be, say, red, while the other pixels on my monitor would
adhere noramlly to the computer.

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Request for Question Clarification by hedgie-ga on 14 Sep 2005 01:27 PDT

I think I understand what you are saying:

You want to be able to 
1) select a background picture for your screen
 (=select a given color of some pixels, set other to 'transparent').
2) modify the normal functioning of the window manager, so that the
   'background' picure would be in the foreground
 (= you would see the application images only where foreground is transparent).

Problem I have is that you did not specify the OS (like windows XP) ..

 It would be possible to do in X-windows under a Linux OS , but it may 
require some programing.

Hedgie

I am not sure what you are saying.  Do you want a photo editor that
you can use to change photos, or do you want a program that will
change to colors of other programs.  If it is a photo editer, then
Gimp is very good.  The interface is not as good a Photoshop, but it
has many of the same sort of features.  The other good thing is that
it is free.

http://www.gimp.org/

excuse me let me make myself more specific:

I wish to find a program that when running, permanently changes the
color of individual pixels on the screen even when other applications
are running. So that, as an example, I could make lets say a large red
dot in the upper left hand of my screen, and keep it like that.
Reading over my question I can see that it is vague, fortunaly the
offcial answer has not been srated yet.

                               Thanks, Jason F.

Possible Translation:  If someone is playing a first person shooter
online, such as Counterstrike, where the crosshair lines move apart
from each other when standing, walking, and running, and they want to
create a kind-of cheat that would discolor a pixel right in the center
of the screen, so they would always know when they are aimed at their
opponent even when they are running, how would one go about doing
that?