MS Paint 


Q. What is paint?

→ Paint is a simple, built-in graphics editor and painting program included with all versions of Microsoft Windows, allowing users to create, edit, and manipulate images and drawings with a user-friendly interface.

Features:

Drawing tools: Pencil, brush, eraser, airbrush, and various shapes. 

Color palette: A selection of colors for drawing and filling shapes. 

Image manipulation: Cropping, resizing, and rotating images. 

Text tool: Adding text to images. 

Image formats: Supports common formats like BMP, JPEG, GIF, PNG, and TIFF. 

Q. How to open paint?

→ Start >>> All Program >>> Accessories >>> Paint.

                         or

 → Open run Command (windows + R)  >>> write Mspaint >>>Press Enter.

Q. How to close Paint or any Program?

→ File >>> Exit

                         or

→ Upper rite corner "X" Button Click

                         or

→ Right click on the taskbar >>> "Close" option click.

                         or

→ Right click on the title bar >>> "X" Button Click.

                         or

→Alt+ f4


# There are three option in print.

1.Print preview 

2.Page set up 

3.Print 

# Print preview – It is used to make a change preview before printing any document or content. 

# Page set up – It is used to setting layout of any paragraph. 

There are three type main option in page setup. 

1.Paper Size 

2.Orientation

3.Margin 

Paper size – A4, A3, A5, Letter etc. 

Orientation – There are two type of Orientation

1.Portrait—Tail 

2.Landscape – wide 

Margin – There are four type of margins

1.Left 

2.Right

3.Top 

4.Button 

# Print – There are three option in paint 

1. Select printer Eg. Hp, Laser jet printer (B/W Printer), Epson ink printer (color printer), canon etc. 

2. Page range 

~ All                                         # Cut – Ctrl + X

~ Current                                     # Copy – Ctrl + C

~ Selection                                    # Paste – Ctrl + V

~ Page

3. Number of copies [] 

# Set as desktop background – It is used to setting any drawing or image on the desktop inas a background.

There are three option is set as desktop background in ms-paint . 

1. Fill

2. Tile 

3. Center

Fill – It is used to fill any picture or drawing entire the full screen .

Tile—It is to used to entire in full screen with repeated the picture .

Center – It is used to only one picture setting middle of the screen .

Image properties – After used this option we can know when my file/image/drawing is created with date / Time , Size of file resolution of image / Measurement unit (inch/cm/meters/pixel) [picas], Black & white color size of drawing area /page size. 

Shortcut of properties – Ctrl + E

Select/Selection – It is used to select any specific area as per requirement. 

There are six type of selection . 

1.Rectangle selection 

2.Free form selection 

3.Select all 

4.Revers/Invert selection  

5.Transparent selection 

6.Delete 

Crop – It is used to crop any image only contain current selection and all other image are cropped. 

Shortcut – Ctrl + Shift + X 

Resize – It is used to change the size of any image Increasing or Decreasing with Horizontal and Vertical.

Shortcut of resize – Ctrl + W

» Maintain aspect ratio – If we want to change the size according to our requirement then remove the tick of “Maintain aspect ratio ‘’. 

» Skew – It is used to skewed any selected image in degree between -89* to 89 also Horizontal & Vertical .

»Rotate/ Rotation – It is to rotate or flip any selected image 

There are five types of rotate style in mspaint.

1. Rotate right 90

2. Rotate left 90

3. Rotate 180

4. Flip Vertical 

5. Flip Horizontal 

Tools --There are six types of tools in ms paint .

1. Pencil 

2. Fill with color 

3. Text 

4. Eraser 

5. Color picker 

6. Magnifier 

Pencil – It is used to draw a thin and free form line . 

Fill with color – It is used to fill the color in entire (closed) any shape . 

Text – If we want to type any text into ms paint through keyboard then used to text range [A]. 

Eraser – It is used eraser or removes any unwanted part from image or draw .

Color Picker – It is used to pick the color from one place and apply it to another place with color. 

Magnifier -- Magnifier is also know as zoom . It is used to magnified (zoomed)any selected image .

» Shortcut of increasing zoom size –                #Ctrl + page up 

» Shortcut of decreasing zoom size –                #Ctrl + page down

» Maximum zoom out size in Ms paint is 800%

» minimum zoom in size in Ms paint is 10% and 12.5

Brush 

There are nine types of brush in ms-paint. 

1. Brush

2. Calligraphy Brush – 1

3. Calligraphy Brush – 2 \pen

4. Air brush 

5. Oil brush 

6. Crayon brush

7. Marker brush

8. Natural pencil brush

9. Water color brush

» Shortcut of increasing size of Eraser, Pencil, Brush and any shape – Ctrl + +

» Shortcut of decreasing size of Eraser, Pencil, Brush and any shape – Ctrl – –

Shape:- There are 23 types of shapes in ms Paint.


Shape outline:- 

It is used to change the style, shape of outline.
There are 7 types of shapes outline.

1. No outline 

2. Solid outline  

3. Crayon 

4. Marker

5. Oil brush 

6. Natural pencil 

7. Water colour 

Shape fill:-

It is used to entire fill of any colour.

There 7 types of Shapes fill.

1. No fill

2. Solid fill

3. Crayon 

4. Marker 

5. Oil brush 

6. Natural Pencil 

7. Water brush 

Colour 1 :- 

  • it is also known as foreground colour.
  • It is used for shape outline.
  • It is used to text/font colour.

Colour 2:-

  • It is also known as background colour.
  • It is used for fill the shape.
  • It is used to text behind colour.