What is MS-paint? It stands for Microsoft paint. The basic painting program that's easy to use!
How do I get to it? Click on the start icon in the bottom left screen, look in all programs, hover of "creativity" and it's in that folder!
It is easy to use, yes..but it's rather hard to draw good pictures with it.
The tools you have!
From left to right, top to bottom, I will describe each tool and how it works, and maybe even tell you some easter eggs about them.
Free-form select: Select and drag, then release to cut-out the part of the picture you found. Click and hold down drag to move the part you cut out. You can select on the left if you want the picture to over-lap anything.
Select: Hold down click and drag to cut-out parts of a picture. Useful for a lot of stuff. Click and hold down drag to move the part you cut out. You can select on the left if you want the picture to over-lap anything.
(Select easter egg: While dragging the cut out piece, hold down CTRL and move it, then let go of CTRL and move your mouse away from the piece while holding down click, you cloned the piece! Another thing is holding down Shift and dragging will stretch the piece.)
Eraser: Click and drag to erase your picture! What ever color you set as your backround will be what color the eraser erases to.
(Eraser easter egg: Hold down CTRL and press + on the numpad, it will make the eraser boundary bigger!)
Paint bucket: Click to fill one colored area with color, right click to fill the area with secondary color!
Eyedrop tool: Hover over a color and click, it will select that color as your first color. Right clicking sets the color as your backround color.
Magnifying glass: Click to zoom in, click to zoom out. You can select on the left how close to zoom in.
Pencil: Draw with a pencil, like brush but smaller.
Brush: Your main drawing tool; Click and drag to draw, right click to draw backround color. You can select on the left how big you want your "brush tip", or if you want it slanted, or square instead of round.
Airbrush: Use an airbrush as a drawing tool, it's good for decorating.
(Drawing tool easter eggs: Hold down CTRL and press + on the numpad, the size of the drawing 'tip' will be bigger!)
Text: Click on text, click somewhere and type in your keyboard, click outside of the boundary to stop typing. You can select if you want the text to over-lap anything or not.
Line: You can draw lines with this! Click and drag to draw a line, right click and drag to use backround color. On the left you can select how big you want the line.
Curve: First do like you do with line, then click and hold down to bend the line, it can be bent twice.
Rectangle: Make a shape by dragging, on the left you can select if you want it outlined, only a line or filled it!
Polygon: Works just like the Line tool, you have to drag and let go of the left mouse button in order to be able to click and drag the next side. To end your shape, make the lines end at each end.
Ellipse: You can draw a circle with this! Works like Rectangle.
Rounded Rectangle: You can draw an oval with this! Works like Rectangle.
(Line tool easter eggs: CTRL and + again will make the line bigger!)
Now for the color palette: You can click on a color at the bottom left to select it, right click to set one as a backround color, or CTRL-click to set it as the color-view icon backround! Double-click on a color to set the color properties!
At the top left, you have options. I will describe them in order from left to right!
File:
New: Starts a new blank slate.
Open: Opens a picture
Save: Saves a picture
Save As: Saves the picture under a determined name no matter what
Print Preview: Shows what it will look like on paper if printed
Page setup: Options for printing a picture
Print: Prints the picture
Send: Sends the picture VIA Email or fax
Save as backround: Saves the picture as your desktop picture
1 2 3 and 4: Last viewed pictures
Exit: Exits paint
Edit:
Undo: Undoes the the last thing you did
Redo: Redoes the last thing you undid
Cut: Cuts the cutout selection
Copy: Copies the cutout selection
Paste: Pastes the cutout selection
Clear Selection: Deletes the cutout selection
Select all: Selects everything
Copy to: Puts a cutout in that picture
Paste from: Pastes the picture from a selected picture on your current picture.
View:
Tool Box: Toggles tool box
Color Box: Toggles color palette
Status Box: Gets rid of the status bar at the bottom
Text toolbar: Can only be toggled during typing text. Change the size, font and properties of the text
Zoom: Goes to zoom options
View Bitmap: Views the entire picture
Image:
Flip/Rotate: Flip the entire image
Stretch/Skew: Stretch or skew the entire image
Invert Colors: Inverts the colors of the entire image
Attributes: Image properties
Clear Image: Clears the image
Draw Opaque: Makes the selected cutout transparent
Colors:
Edit colors: Toggles color options menu
Help:
Help topics: Tutorial about paint
About paint: Credits
I hope I have helped you, even at all. You can post your pictures of MSpaint here, It is the simplest paint program there is.
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