PAINT PROGRAM

To access the program:‎
Go to Programs:Then go to Accessories:Then select "Paint"‎

Let’s know some of tools:‎


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‎1. Note the locations of the tools:
Toolbar is on the left
Canvas is white and selected. 6 dots are stretch locations for mouse ‎to drag and size the canvas, fit the canvas size to the picture. ‎Canvas determines total size of file. Therefore, the canvas should ‎be resized to fit the image as close as possible without cropping the ‎image.
Color Bar is across the bottom with basic colors
Color Selected are two square on top of each other in the lower ‎left corner. The top color is foreground/left mouse click and the ‎bottom color is background/right mouse click
Eyedropper is associated with color selected. Selecting and placing ‎eyedropper over a color in the color bar or picture pixel will change ‎the selection in these two boxes. With eyedropper placed over ‎color, left mouse click will set the foreground/left mouse color and ‎right mouse click will set the background/right mouse color that are ‎associated with the rest of the tools.‎
Gray Area Indented under tools will have available settings for the ‎tool selected ‎

Tool Bar
Eraser: select, and the cursor will change to eraser image. use like ‎an eraser. Be sure your background color matches the canvas as the ‎eraser will erase the image and leave a color chosen for your ‎background. Choose the size of the eraser by selecting options now ‎visible in the gray indented area.
Eyedropper: See above for instruction.
Pencil: Free hand draws 1 pixel line with mouse down. Foreground ‎color with left mouse down and background color with right mouse ‎down.
Line; select, Choice of width in gray area indented. draws a straight ‎line and ends when you release the mouse or called mouse up. Left ‎and Right mouse colors apply as in Pencil tool.‎
Rectangle Selection Frame: Draws a frame around a section of the ‎image area. No crop tool so you have to select an area to delete, cut, ‎copy and paste. Right mouse click will deselect or place the image in ‎the selection rectangle. Note: choices in selection gray area ‎indented:
Paint Bucket is fill tool. Fills identical colored pixels with left or ‎right mouse colors. Colors that are isolated will not be filled even ‎though they are the same color if not connected to fill area.
Magnifying Glass enlarges image with left mouse and reduces image ‎size with right mouse click. Selection gray area gives you magnifying ‎choices.
Paint Brush is like pencil with choices of shape and size of stroke in ‎gray area indented. Left and right mouse colors.
Capital A is Text tool.. Choose Style, Type, Size of text. ‎ ‎ ‎

The most important tool in a paint program is the "UNDO" command ‎located under menu "Edit", "Undo". You can immediately undo a ‎mistake by selecting undo.‎

Now let’s learn some important skills:‎

To load an image from disk to edit and/or to resize:‎
Click on File, then click Open and then locate the file to open on ‎your hard drive.‎

To resize the selected image:‎
Click on Image, then click on Stretch/Skew and then in the Stretch ‎and Skew dialog box type in the percent you want the Horizontal ‎and Vertical measurements to be reduced to.‎







Save the work:‎
Click File and then Save As and then save with a new file name if you ‎want to preserve the original image or click save if you want to save ‎the changes on the original picture.‎