MICROSOFT PAINT

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 Lesson Objectives:
• Open MS Paint
• Overview of the MS Paint Window/interface
including the title bar, menu tabs, toolbox,
Color box or palette, Drawing area or Canvas
• Create some images and edit pictures using
MS paint
• Save images or edited pictures
• Close MS Paint
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 Introduction to Ms Paint
Microsoft Paint is a simple paint program with
few tool set used to create 2 dimensional
images on a single layer only.

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 Opening MS Paint
To Start up Microsoft Paint:
1. Click on Windows Start menu, select All
Programs then select Accessories and finally
click on Paint
2. [Maximize] the window so that the Paint
window fills the screen

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MS Paint Window

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 MS Paint Window

MS Paint window is made up of the following

components:
Title bar
Menu bar
The Ribbon
Drawing area or Canvas and,
Status bar

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The title bar: The title bar is located at the top of
the MS Paint window, at the left end of the title bar
the first item shows a little paint palette. If clicked,
this button opens a standard window menu
showing Restore, move, size, minimize, maximize
and close. The next four items make up the Quick
Access Toolbar, they are Save, Undo, Redo, and
Customize buttons.
After the Quick Access Toolbar, you will see the title
of your picture followed by the name of the
program. If you have not saved your picture for the
first time the name will be shown as “Untitled”.
At the right hand end of the title bar are three usual
window buttons; Minimize, Maximize and Close

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 The Menu bar: has three (3) items on the left and a
help button at the far right
1. File Menu: It contains the New, Open, Save, Save As,
Print and other commands.
2. Home Tab: Contains the Ribbon, from which tools and
colors are selected.
3. View Tab: Zooming in and out are some of the tools in
Ribbon.

 The Ribbon: All the tools, color palette and most

commands are grouped together in the ribbon. Drop
down arrows below some items of the Home Tab give
you access to everything in their menus. There is also
an option to minimize and expand the ribbon. If you
choose this, the ribbon disappears entirely, but shows
if you click on the Home menu or any of the tabs.

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 Drawing area or canvas: This is the area where the user
can create an image and edit pictures. You can adjust
the size of the canvas by simply dragging out or in the
edges to the required size using the mouse on the
canvas handles. The handles are positioned at each
corner of the canvas and half-way along each side.
To adjust the Canvas
1. Position the mouse cursor over one of the canvas
handles on the right or bottom edge - use the bottom
right corner handle to change both the width and the
height.
2. Hold down the mouse button and drag the mouse
outwards (or inwards) - note how the new size is
displayed by the coordinates at the foot of the screen
3. Release the mouse button when the canvas is the
required size.

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Status bar: it is located at the bottom of the
MS Paint window, and offers information
about the Cursor Position, Selected size made,
or of an object you are drawing, Image size,
Disk size once you have saved a picture and
Zoom slider.

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Create Some Images and Edit Pictures Using
MS Paint
All the tools, the color palette, and most commands used to
create and edit images and pictures are grouped together in
the ribbon. Save, Undo and Redo, which are shown at the
left end of the title bar, in the Quick Access Toolbar are not
in the ribbon.
How to use drawing tools
Generally the drawing tools can be used the following way:
1. Select a tool by clicking on it,
2. Place the mouse pointer on the Canvas or object/image
where you want to use it on and it changes depending
on the type of tool selected, then
3. Drag the tool while holding down the left mouse button
and release the left mouse button when you are done.

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The Clipboard Menu: The clipboard menu
offers three options—Cut, Copy and Paste. Only
when an image, object or picture is selected will
the Cut and Copy icons show as being ready.

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The Image Menu: It consists of tools for Selecting,
Cropping, Resizing, and Rotating part or the whole of
selected objects and images. Before you can use the tools
on this menu, you select the whole or part of your drawing
you want to work with.

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 The Tools Menu: It consists of the following tools;
1. Pencil.
2. Fill with Color
3. Text
4. Eraser
5. Color Picker
6. Magnifier
7. Brushes
1. Pencil: The pencil tool can be used for free-hand drawing.
When working with the pencil tool, press with the left
mouse button to draw with Color 1 (Foreground color) and
with the right mouse button to draw with Color 2
(Background color). The pencil's thickness can be changed in
the Size tab to 1, 2, 3 or 4 pixels. To draw a straight line using
the pencil tool, hold down the shift key while drawing.
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2. Fill with color: The Fill with color tool, or the Flood Fill tool if you like, is used
to fill an area of a single color with a different color. Color 1 will be used if you
press the left mouse button on the area to be filled. Color 2 will be used if you
press with the right mouse button.
3. Text: The text tool is used to insert and format text. To begin inserting text,
click on the text tool. Your cursor changes to an insertion bar.
 With this cursor, drag to draw an square that you think will be about right to
hold your text.
 Now, until you've completed these steps, don't click anywhere outside that
square.
 The Text Toolbar appears.
 Type your text.
 Now drag the cursor over the text so that it becomes highlighted.
 Click the down arrow at the end of the Font Name box, so that a list of fonts
drops down.
 Run your cursor—without pressing any mouse buttons—up and down the font
list. As you do this, the appearance of the text you've typed will change
appropriately.
 When you like what you see, click on the name of that font. The font list will
close.
 You can also click the Background from Transparent to Opaque and change
both Color 1 and Color 2. You can even run your cursor, while the Color 2
button is operative, over the palette, and see how different backgrounds look
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4. Eraser: The eraser tool is used to change the colors. With
the left button pressed, the eraser tool changes whatever
it is dragged across to the background color (Color 2).
With the right button pressed, the eraser tool changes
pixels of Color 1 to Color 2, but leaves everything else
unaffected. You can use this to quickly and easily change
an area of red color to one of blue color.
5. Color Picker: The color picker tool is used to sample and
match any color in your picture. It is used to pick colors
from pictures, the color picked can be used for drawing,
etc.
6. Magnifier: The Magnifier Tool can be clicked over an area
of which you want a closer view. Left clicks give a closer view.
Right clicks zoom out.
7. Brushes: The brushes tool let you paint in various widths
and textures. Widths are controlled by the brushes and
the Size Tool together, textures by the brushes.
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 Shape Menu: Shapes Gallery consist of basic
shape tools such as Rectangles, Rounded
Rectangles Ellipses, Straight lines, Curved Lines
and Freehand Polygons. As well as a number of
added shapes: arrows, speech balloons, various
stars and others. When a shape is selected, the
Outline or Fill buttons are activated to enable
you select outline and fill of your choice.

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The Size Tool: This tool becomes active only
after you have chosen either a Brush or a
Shape, so choose your Brush or Shape and
you'll then find you can click the down arrow
under Size and choose a line thickness. The line
thicknesses offered vary according to the brush
you've chosen.

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•Colors Menu: The Color section of the ribbon has three
parts: Boxes showing the active colors; Color 1 and Color2,
the Color Palette and the Edit Colors button.
1.Color 1 is the Foreground Color, and is always black when
you open Paint or open a different Paint page.
2.Color 2 is the Background Color, and is always white when
you open Paint or open a different Paint page.
To change a color, ensure that its Color box is selected, by
simply clicking it and then, in the Palette, click on the color
that you want.
3.The Color Palette consist of various colors which you can
select from.
4.Edit Colors button takes you into the Edit Colors dialogue.
There you can click any color on an extended palette and
click the Add to Custom Colors button.
•When you click O.K. in this box, only one color will be added
to the squares under the palette. To add further colors, you
must return to the dialogue and add them one at a time.
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Colors Menu

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 Save images or edited pictures
To save an image or edited picture:
1. On the Quick Access Toolbar, click the save button Or,
press Ctrl + S. the Save As dialog box opens.
2. In the left hand Navigation pane select a location or select
the default location which is the Document folder.
3. In the File Name box type a name for the Paint file.
4. Click save

Using Save As:

1. Click on the File Menu and then click Save As. The Save As
dialog box opens.
2. In the left hand Navigation pane select a location or select
the default location which is the Document folder.
3. In the File Name box type a name for the Paint file.
4. Click save
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 Closing MS Paint
To close MS Paint;
1. Select Exit from the File menu or,
2. Close button on the Title bar.

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