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Microsoft Paint: The Paint Working Area, Menu & Tool Bars

Microsoft Paint is a simple drawing program that allows users to create black and white or color drawings. Drawings can be printed, used as desktop backgrounds, or inserted into other documents. The tools in Paint allow users to draw shapes, lines, and curves using options like different brush sizes. Text can also be added. Once complete, drawings can be filled with color, erased, or have colors changed using the various tools in Microsoft Paint.

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Microsoft Paint: The Paint Working Area, Menu & Tool Bars

Microsoft Paint is a simple drawing program that allows users to create black and white or color drawings. Drawings can be printed, used as desktop backgrounds, or inserted into other documents. The tools in Paint allow users to draw shapes, lines, and curves using options like different brush sizes. Text can also be added. Once complete, drawings can be filled with color, erased, or have colors changed using the various tools in Microsoft Paint.

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Microsoft Paint

Paint is a drawing tool you can use to create simple or elaborate


drawings. These drawings can be either black-and-white or colour.
Drawings can be printed, used as desktop background or pasted it
into another document.

The Paint working area, Menu & Tool Bars

Menu Bar

Free form Select Select


Eraser/Colour Eraser Fill with colour
Pick Colour Magnifier
Pencil Brush
Airbrush Text
Line Curve
Rectangle Polygon
Ellipse Rounded Rectangle

Foreground colour

Background colour

First define the image area by clicking on Image > Attributes.


Set the image width
and height using
inches, centimetres or
pixels. You can also
choose to produce a
colour or black and
white image.

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Foreground and Background colour
To select the foreground colour click the left mouse button on the
desired colour from the colour bar. For the background colour click
the right mouse button.

To draw a straight line


Click on the Line tool then select the line width from the box below.
Move the cursor, which will have changed to crosshairs, onto the
image area. Hold down the left button and drag the cursor to the
required place then release
the button.

To draw true horizontal, vertical or 450 lines hold down the Shift key
at the same time. To draw the line in the foreground colour use the
left mouse button; to draw the line in the background colour use
the right mouse button.

Line Width Options.


Note; these options will vary
according to the tool selected

To draw a curved line

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Click on the Curve tool and select line width. Draw a straight line as
previously described. Click where you want one arc of the curve to
be, and then drag the pointer to adjust the curve. Repeat this step
for a second arc.

You can only create two curves for each line. To draw the line in the
foreground colour use the left mouse button; to draw the line in the
background colour use the
right mouse button.

To draw a shape
Select whichever shape tool
you wish to draw. From the
option box below select outline (foreground colour),
outline and fill (foreground and background colour
respectively) or just fill colour (foreground colour).

Starting at the top left hand corner click on the image area where
you wish to start drawing the shape and drag the shape to the
required size. If you want an exact square hold down the Shift key
as you draw a Rectangle/Rounded Rectangle shape. For a perfect
circle hold down the Shift key as you use the Ellipse tool.

Drawing a polygon is slightly different.


Select the Polygon tool and the outline

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and fill option box as described above. Click at the starting point of
the polygon, and holding down the left button draw the first side of
the shape. Thereafter you need to click at the end of each line that
makes up the polygon, the programme will fill in the lines as you
draw, finishing at the start point.

Pencil, Brush & Airbrush


The Pencil and Brush tools allow for freehand drawing. The Pencil
tool doesn’t have any options; it just draws a thin line in either the
foreground colour (left mouse button) or background colour (right
mouse button).

The Brush tool has the option of a range of brush


strokes, available from the option box that appears
when the Brush tool is selected. The choice is that of
a round, square, left or right angled brush in three
different sizes. As with the Pencil tool the colours
are chosen by using the left or right mouse button for fore or
background colours.

Similar to the Brush is the Airbrush tool.


Again available in three sizes the
Airbrush paints a spray effect which
increases in density depending upon the
speed at which the tool is moved across
the image; just like an airbrush really!
Colour is chosen by using the left or
right mouse button for fore or background colours.

Fill With Colour


A shape can be filled with colour by using the Fill With Colour tool.
Click on the Fill With Colour tool, place it over the shape (object or

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area) to be filled and left or right click depending upon whether the
fore or background colour
is required.

If the shape you want to fill has any breaks in its border, the fill
colour spreads to the rest of the drawing area.

Eraser
The Eraser tool, available in four sizes, rubs out whatever it passes
over while the left mouse button is held down. The background
colour will therefore show through.

Text
Text can be added to the image by first selecting the Text tool and
then drawing a box on the image area. When the box is complete
the Text Toolbar will appear.

Choosing font, size, etc. is the same as in other Microsoft


programmes.

The text colour will be that of the foreground colour, to change the
colour of the text, click a colour in the colour box.

Note: you can enter text in a text box only once. When you click
outside the box, the text is converted to a graphic image and you
cannot make it active again.

To make the background opaque and defined by the background

colour, click To make the background of the text transparent,

click

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Putting it all together

Although a limited
programme it is useful for
designs such as banners or
logos for newsletters.

Now that you know how to


use all the tools available in
Paint it’s just a case of using your design skills.

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