MS Paint

Starting paintbrush:

Click “start=>programs=>accessories=>paint” OR “Start=>run” and type mspaint.

Click “view” and select for Toolbox/color box/status bar, if they are not visible.

 Exit Paintbrush:

Click “File=>Exit” OR Ctrl +  F4

  

Opening a File:

 Click “File=>Open” OR Ctrl + O.

Saving a File:

Click “File=>Save” OR Ctrl + S.

Preview a File:

Click “File=>Print Preview”.  It shows how the file will look after the print on the page.

Print a File:

Click “File=>Print” OR Ctrl + P

Page setup:

 Click “File =>page setup”.  You can set margins, size of paper, source, etc.

Acquire an image from a scanner or a digital camera:

Select “File=> from scanner or camera => Get Pictures => Get picture”.

Draw a straight line:

Click on the “line” tool and select the foreground color from the color box. 

Click the lt key and keep it pressed and  drag in any direction to draw a line.  Line will be drawn until you leave the key.

While dragging to draw the line hold on the “shift key” on keyboard to get a straight vertical, horizontal or 45 deg angle.

If you desire to have background color of line use right click.

You can select the width of the line underneath the toolbox.

Fill an area with color:

 Create a closed circle or square etc. select the “painting brush” tool.  Select the foreground by lt click on the color you want and  rt click for background color on the tool box.

To fill with the foreground color click lt key. And fill with background color click rt key.

If gaps exist select “view=>zoom” and complete the line.

Set a Paint picture as your desktop background:

 Click “file => set as background (tiled/centered)”  When you select the tiled option the image is repeated along x axis and if you select centered the image is adjusted to the desktop.

Send an image using e-mail:

Select “file => send” to send an email.  You must have a email account and system configured to mail service.

Draw a curved line:

Select the “curve line” tool and draw a line first and then at ¼ hold the line and move to one side.  Next hold at 1/3 part and drag to other side to draw a curve line.  Only two curves are possible. Lt click for foreground & rt click for background.  You can select the width of the tool underneath.

Draw a freeform line:

Select the “pencil” tool and draw a line.  You can move in any direction. When drag the pointer foreground color is used if  used with rt key of the mouse you will have the background.

Draw a polygon(any no of sides):

First select the width of the line by selecting line tool and selecting width.

Draw the line (one side) and click the corners you want to draw continuity. Double click at the end point.

If you are using lt key foreground color appears and rt key background color appears.

If you desire to draw only 45/90/180 deg angles use shift key.

Draw a rectangle or square:

Select the width of the border line by selecting line/curve tool.

Drag the mouse to form the rectangle, diagonally.

You can select curved angles or sharp angles object in the tool box.

You can press “shift” to make a square.

You can click the color fill tool.

Foreground color appears as “fill in color” and border as background color, if you drag using right key of mouse.

Foreground color appears as border color and background color as “fill in color” if you draw using lt key of mouse.

Draw an ellipse or circle:

Select the width of the border line by selecting line/curve tool.

Drag the mouse to form the circle/ellipse.

You can press “shift” to make a circle.

You can click the color fill tool.

Foreground color appears as “fill in color” and border as background color, if you drag using right key of mouse.

Foreground color appears as border color and background color as “fill in color” if you draw using lt key of mouse.

Edit changes:

Select “Edit=>undo” OR Ctrl + Z for undoing the changes.  Three times it can be undone.

Select “Edit=>repeat” OR Ctrl + Y for redoing the changes.  Three times it can be repeated.

Select “Edit=>cut” OR Ctrl+X for cutting the image.

Select “Edit=>Copy” OR Ctrl+C for copying the image.

Select “Edit=>paste” OR Ctrl+V for pasting.

Select the “select tool” from the tool box and drag on the area and press “Del” to delete.

Select “Edit =>select all” OR Ctrl + A for selecting the complete image and deleting.

Copy image from any program:

Copying can be done from any programs viz word, excel, powerpoint, etc.

Paste from another location:

Select “Edit => paste from” option for importing a image from another location.

Adjusting Canvas:

Click on the canvas and hold down the “Blue points” at the corners and stretch the canvas if needed.

Flip/ Rotate image:

Select “Image=> Flip/Rotate” OR Ctrl + R.

Stretch/Skew the image:

Click “Image=>Stretch/Skew” OR Ctrl + W

Invert Colors of image:

Click “Image=>Invert Colors” OR Ctrl + I

Each color is replaced by its color complement.  For example, red becomes cyan, and blue becomes yellow.

Check the attributes of image:

Click “Image=>Attributes” OR Ctrl + E

Clear image:

Click “Image =>clear image” OR Ctrl + shift + N

Editing Colors:

Click “Colors=>edit colors”  for editing colors.

Zooming the image:

 Click “view=>zoom=> normal size/large size”.  For normal you can use Ctrl + Pg up and large size Ctrl + Pg Down.

You can also set to Custom size by using “custom size”. 

Using Airbrush:

Click on the airbrush tool press the key for painting with spray paint.

Lt key for foreground color and Rt key for background color.

Writing Text:

Select “A” text tool and select the area first to be written.  Select the font, bold, Italic etc from the text bar.  If you don’t see the text bar rt click the mouse and click “Text bar”.

Using Select Tool:

Click on the Select tool “0” from the tools bar and select the area by dragging on the canvas. 

Using Eraser:

Click the eraser on the tool box and erase by holding the lt mouse key and dragging.  Set the size of the eraser below.