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MSPAINT PROGRAM
by
Sharon Bond
In the
Paint program  you create artwork that’s practical, educational, or just fun.
Everything
you need is close at hand---a palette of colors, an array of tools, and an empty
canvas called the drawing area.
All you add is a bit of inspiration.
To begin a Paint picture, you select a tool and
start drawing with the mouse.
Some of the tools are for freehand sketching,
while others are designed to help create perfectly formed shapes such as lines,
curves, rectangles, circles, ovals, and multisided figures.
With a
special feature called a cutout you move shapes around the canvas or duplicate
any part of your drawing. You can even add text to your work. If you make a
mistake, you use an eraser to remove it—or you clear the canvas in an instant to
start all over again
What you do
with all these tools and colors are up to you. Whether you are drawing a map to
your house, decorating a birthday invitation, or designing a corporate logo,
Paint provides an engaging medium for
your creative efforts.
Let's get
Started:
Click the
Start button  and
choose Programs,
Choose Accessories
from the Programs
menu, and
click Paint.
Maximize the Paint window to make as much
room to work on as possible. Move the mouse pointer into the toolbox at
the left side of the window. The pointer becomes an arrow that you can use to
select any of the available drawing tools.
HOW TO GET STARTED
When you start the Paint program, you will find
an assortment of tools and color choices arranged conveniently around the
perimeter of a large drawing area. You use the mouse for
two main purposes---
first to select
appropriate tools and then to draw pictures, When you click a
drawing tool—the brush or the pencil tool, for example—the mouse in effect
becomes that tool in the drawing area. Paint uses both the
left and
right mouse
buttons. By default, the primary
button is the one on the
left, and the
secondary
button
is on the right
Let’s learn the toolbars
TitleBar
will have the name of your Document after you have saved and the minimize,
maximize and close buttons on the right.
Menu Bar
File………New,
Open, Save, Save As, Print, Page Setup, Print, Send, Set as wallpaper.
Edit………Undo,
Repeat, Cut, Copy, Paste, Clear Selection, Select All, Paste From
View……..Tool
Box, Color Box, Status Bar, Zoom, View Bitmap
Image…….Flip
Rotate, Stretch Skew, Invert Colors, Attributes, Clear Image, Draw Opaque
Colors……Edit
Colors
Help
Tool Bar or Toolbox. Left to Right and Top to Bottom
 Free
Form Select………….Select E
raser Color………………..Fill with color
Pick
Color…………………...Magnifier
Pencil………………………. Brush
Air
Brush…………………….Text
Line…………………………..Curve
Rectangle……………………Polygon
Ellipse……………………..Rounded
Rectangle
 Tip:
When you select certain tools you will see
the shape and size option palette below the Ellipse and Rounded Rectangle.
The
Color Palette is located at the bottom of the drawing area .
IMPORTANT:
Paint uses both the left and right mouse buttons. By default,
the primary button is the one on the left, and the secondary button is
on the right
LET’S
TRY THE FOLLOWING:
We are
going to work first with the pencil and brush tools.
 The
pencil a free
hand tool for drawing lines is the initial selection.
Tip: Holding down
the Shift key and using the pencil tool will draw straight vertical and
horizontal lines. Try it.
  Click
the brush tool
and notice the shape and size options under the Ellipse and Rounded Rectangle
tools.
This box contains a variety of settings for the drawing tools you have
selected. For
example: the brush options represent different shapes and widths
that the brush can
produce in the drawing area.
For
this exercise, click the first diagonal line in the
third row of shapes. Move down to the color palette and select blue with your
left (or primary) mouse button.
Move the
mouse pointer into the drawing area, the large empty section of the Paint
window. Here the pointer represents the current drawing tool. With the brush
tool selected, the pointer appears as a small diagonal line enclosed within
crosshair markers.
 Hold
down the left mouse button
and drag the mouse to draw a squiggle on the screen. Release the mouse
button when you are done.
Like the pencil, the brush
is a freehand drawing tool that records the path of
the mouse’s motion. Work with other brush options.
To erase
your work and start again with an empty page it is easier to pull down the File
menu and choose New (or simply press Ctrl plus N).
Paint asks you if you want to save
the changes in the current drawing.
Click No.
 Fill
with Color: To
fill an enclosed area with color, select the "fill with color" tool
(shaped
like a paint can) and move the mouse pointer to a position inside the area
you want to fill. Click the left mouse
to fill with the current
foreground color, or the right mouse button to fill with the background color.
  To
erase a portion of your drawing, select the eraser tool and then select an
eraser width
rom the options shown below the toolbox. Hold down the left
mouse button, and drag the mouse over the area you want to
erase. The eraser tool replaces
everything in its path
with the background color.
 The
Pick Color Tool:
(shaped like an eyedropper) allows you to select
foreground and background colors directly from the drawing area. Click the
eyedropper tool and then move the mouse pointer
into the drawing area, directly
over an example of the color that you want to select. Then click the
left mouse button to change
the foreground color, or the right button
to change the background color. You
can copy and paste a picture you like
and then use this great tool to choose a different color.
  The
magnifier tool
(located just to the right of the eyedropper tool) enlarges a portion of a
picture and allows you to make detailed
changes. Click the tool, and then select
the portion
of your drawing that you want to change. An enlarged view of
the picture appears in the drawing. You can now select another drawing tool to
make changes in the enlargement
  Air
Brush............To
create a spray paint effect, select the airbrush tool and then select a
spray width in the box of options shown beneath the toolbox. Move the mouse
pointer to a starting position in the drawing area. Hold down the mouse button
and drag the mouse through the area you want to spray. Use the left button
to spray in the foreground color,
or the right to spray in the
background color.
 Text: To
add text to your drawing, select the text tool. Drag the mouse through a
rectangular area to create a text box. Optionally,
select a font, point size, and styles from the
text toolbar (if the toolbar does not automatically appear on the screen, pull
down the
View menu
and choose
Text Toolbar).
Then begin
typing the text from the keyboard. To start a new line, press Enter.
Click elsewhere in the drawing area to complete the Current text
Line Tool:
Tip:
To draw a straight line, select the line tool and
move the mouse pointer to a starting position in the drawing area.
Hold down the
left mouse
button to draw in the
foreground color,
or the
right mouse
button to draw in the
background color,
and drag the mouse through the length of the line you want to create…(hold down
the
Shift key
to draw a
vertical,
horizontal, or diagonal line.)
Then release the mouse button.
 Curve
Tool.....To
draw a curve, select the curve tool and use the mouse to draw a line across the
area where you want the curve to
appear. Then hold down the mouse button and
drag in a direction perpendicular to the line; when the line forms the
curve that you want, release the mouse button. Repeat this dragging action to
produce a second curve in the line. When you release the mouse button again,
the curve is complete.
  To
draw a
rectangle,
a rounded rectangle, a circle, or an oval, select
the appropriate tool in
the toolbox and then select a border or fill setting
among the options shown to the left. Use
the
left and right
mouse buttons to select different colors to produce an outline of the shape
that
you want. Release the mouse button to complete the process.
Tip: If you draw with
the left (or primary)
mouse button,
The
border appears in the foreground color
and the
fill is the background color.
If you draw with the
right (or secondary) button, the colors are reversed.
Example:
 Try This
 To
draw a multsided
figure, select
the polygon tool and begin by drawing a line. Then reposition and click the
mouse once to
define each corner of the figure you want to Create. To
complete the shape, double-click the mouse at the final corner.
The use of colors is the same as for rectangles and circles.
To
change the border width
for a filled geometric shape (rectangle, oval, polygon, or
rounded rectangle) first choose the
line
tool
and change the size of the
line in the box shown below the toolbar. Then select the tool for the geometric
shape of your choice
HOW TO
SELECT FOREGROUND AND BACKGROUND COLORS:
 1. Move the mouse pointer
into the color palette. To select the
foreground
color, position the pointer over a color of your choice and click the left mouse
button. The new foreground color
appears in the upper-left square in the box
shown to the left of the color palette
(Notice blue in the
first box in the top left
square.)
2. To select the
background color,
move the pointer to a different color and click the right (or secondary) mouse
button. The new background color appears in the
lower-right square
in the box shown to the left
of t the palette.
(Notice red in the bottom second square.)
TRY
THIS:
Click the rectangle tool in the toolbox. In the options window shown below on the
toolbar, you have
three selections.
1.
Outline of shape
using foreground color,
2.
(Middle option)
filled option using foreground color for the outline and
background color for the fill color.
3.
Filled option
using foreground color only.
Choose blue
(left click)
for your foreground color.
Choose red (right click)
for your background color
Draw a
rectangle with the first selection.
Draw a
rectangle with the middle selection.
Draw a
rectangle with the bottom (filled) selection.
NOW TRY THIS
To reverse
the current color selections, try drawing with the right mouse button rather
than the left. For example, to create a rectangle that’s bordered by the
current background color and filled with the foreground color, hold down the
right mouse as you draw your rectangle
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