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JSS2 Introduction To Microsoft Paint Environment

The document provides an introduction to the Microsoft Paint environment and its tools. It describes the basic features and functions of Paint including how to open and save files, use different drawing tools to create shapes and edit images, and perform simple tasks like filling areas with color and drawing geometric objects. Examples of tools covered are the selection, eraser, brush, text, shapes, and line tools.

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JSS2 Introduction To Microsoft Paint Environment

The document provides an introduction to the Microsoft Paint environment and its tools. It describes the basic features and functions of Paint including how to open and save files, use different drawing tools to create shapes and edit images, and perform simple tasks like filling areas with color and drawing geometric objects. Examples of tools covered are the selection, eraser, brush, text, shapes, and line tools.

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INTRODUCTION TO MICROSOFT PAINT ENVIRONMENT

Ms-Paint is a utility graphic software tool that can be used to create simple or complex
drawings. It is a simple raster graphics editor that has been included with all versions of
Microsoft windows. It opens and saves files in window bitmap as BMP, JPEG, GIF, PNG and
TIFF etc. The drawings can be used as desktop background, or pasted into another documents.
Ms-Paint can also be used to view and edit scanned photos, create a plan of your home, a map
of your neighbourhood, cartoons in a magazines etc. To draw different shapes and figures you
can use different tools like the line tool, curve tool, polygon tool, rectangle tool, oval tool and
pencil tool given in Ms-paint.
Basic things to know about Microsoft Paint
Ms-Paint can be used to draw, colour and edit pictures including imported pictures from
a digital camera.
Ms-Paint is found in the windows start menu within the accessories folder.
Paint can enable painting by dragging the mouse and using different types of artistic
brushes or pens that can give for example a water colour or oil effect.
Recent versions of paint allow up to three colours to be picked at a time using the
primary colour with left mouse click, the secondary colour with right mouse click and
the tertiary colour with the control key on the keyboard and any mouse click.
Many complex graphics software applications have concepts that are included in
Microsoft paint and the same principles can be applied in these from learning within
Microsoft paint.
Features of ms-paint includes pencil, brush, airbrush, eraser, and magnifier and fill
colour tools. The ability to add text, lines and shapes etc.
1. Title Bar- This is made up of quick access, icons, title, minimize, restore and close
buttons.
2. Ribbons- This comprises of Home ribbon and view ribbons.
3. Printable Area- This is a place on the paint environment where drawing takes place.
4. Status Bar- This is a section to display the location of the cursor.

Tools of Ms-Paint
1. Freeform select - This is a snipping tool that is used to draw an irregular line such
as a circle or a triangle around an object that you want to capture.
2. Select tool - The select tool is a snipping tool that is used to select one or more items
on the screen to copy and save as a bitmap image.
3. Eraser tool - This tool is used to remove an unwanted part of a graphic. When the
eraser tool is active, the eraser size can be changed by selecting from the four sizes
in the toolbox option area.
4. Paint brush tool - This tool is used to select different sizes of paint brushes to paint
with. When active, it allows you to choose from sizes and shapes of brushes in the
tool box option.
5. Text tool - This tool is used to position and enter text into graphics. The text can be
of any colour or font installed in the computer.
6. Rectangle tool - This tool is used to draw rectangles. When active, you can select
the thickness of the rectangle lines from the toolbox option area.
7. Ellipse tool - This tool is used for drawing objects. When active, the thickness of an
ellipse line can be selected from the toolbox option area.
8. Straight Line - This tool is used for creating straight lines. To use it, click Line,
click a line width in the options box just below the tool bar.
9. Curve Line - This tool is used to draw a smooth curved line. To use, click curve,
click a line width in the option box below the tool bar.
10. Colour Palette - This is also called colour box. It is used to indicate current
foreground and background colour. To paint with the selected background colour,
right-click while you drag the pointer.
11. Eye Dropper - It can be used to pick up colours that you have used. The active
colour of your paint tool will automatically change to the colour picked by the
eyedropper.

Simple Tasks in Ms-Paint


Steps on how to load Ms-Paint
1. Click on start button in the desktop area of the computer
2. Locate the paint icon and double click on it, then
3. Double click/right click or click open.
To Use Brush Tools
You can use the brush tool to draw lines that have different appearances and textures, steps
includes;
1. Click on Home tab
2. Click on down arrow under brushes.
3. Click on the brush that you want to use.
4. Click on the size box and select line size, which determines the thickness of the brush
stroke.
5. Now, you drag the mouse and start making your drawing in the drawing area.

To Draw Polygon Tool


You can use this tool to make a customized shape with any number of sides.
1. Click on the Home tab
2. Click on the polygon tool
3. Click on the size box and select the thickness of the line.
4. Now press the left mouse button and drag the mouse to make different shapes.

To Select Tools
The select tools allows you to move the object from one place to another in the paint window.
1. Click on the Home tab
2. Click on the down arrow under Select
3. Click on the select tool.
4. Click and hold the left mouse button and drag the mouse diagonally to select the object.
5. Release the mouse button.

To Curve Object
1. Click on the Home tab
2. Click on the curve tool.
3. Click on the size box and select the thickness of the line.
4. Drag the mouse to make a line.
5. Now, click on the line and drag the mouse to make a curve.

To Draw Line Tool


You can draw straight lines of different thickness by using the line tool.
1. Click on the Home tab.
2. Click on the line tool.
3. Click on the size box.
4. Select the thickness of the line.
5. Drag the mouse to make a line in any direction.

To Draw Pencil Tool


You can draw straight wavy and curved lines with pencil tool
1. Click on the Home tab.
2. Click on the pencil tool.
3. Click on the Size box
4. Select the width of the line
5. Now drag the mouse and start making drawings in the drawing area.

To Erase Object with Eraser Tool


1. Click on the Home tab.
2. Click on the Eraser tool.
3. Click on the size box.
4. Select the width of the eraser.
5. Drag it your drawing, in the drawing area, over the part you want to erase.
To Fill with Colour
1. Click on the Home tab.
2. Click on the fill with colour tool.
3. Click on foreground color box.
4. Click on any color from the color palette
5. Click on the area where you want fill the chosen color.

To Draw Geometric Object


1. Load paint package and select the shape
2. Move the mouse to drawing board and hold down the mouse button & drag.
3. Move the mouse to the drawing board and hold down the mouse button.
4. Select shape which is automatically draw then release the mouse.

To Save a Document
1. On the file menu, click Save
2. Type the file name.
3. Click on Save.
To Close the Document/Program
On the file menu, Click Exit.

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