How to use the drawing program PAINT  

Program Paint is a program for drawing and writing and where we can easily paint and process the image that can be later used or better inserted into other Windows programs.

1. Start the program Paint /Start/Programs/Accessories

2. About the Window Paint and its organization

• On the left: tools for painting and writing

• At the bottom - left corner: colour palette

3. Steps for creating an image

• choose the background colour (white, red…)

• choose the colour of the line

• choose the thickness of the line

• choose the tool for drawing (pencil, brush…)

• draw

• correct

• save the image

1. 1. How we draw the free line

• Choose the tool for free line drawing (the pencil or the brush)

• Put the cursor on the working space

• Press the left button of the mouse, keep it pressed and move it to shape the figure

3. 2. How to choose the colour of the line
Click (with the left button of the mouse) the wanted colour in colour palette at the bottom of the window. (The upper left square at the beginning of the palette changes into the chosen colour.) and then click into the working space.

3.3. How to choose the colour of the background
Click (with the right button of the mouse) the colour in colour palette at the bottom of the window. (The square below at the beginning of the palette changes into the chosen colour.)

3. 4. Choose the thickness of the line
Click on the line and then the special palette with the dots will appear below the tools. Choose one you want by clicking it.

3. 5. Drawing tools (to the left)

1. Tools for cutting
With this tool we cut irregular or regular shapes from the picture.  The part we have cut we can move to different locations, erase it or copy it into Clipboard and paste it later into other programs.

Eraser
Parts of the picture can be erased with the eraser. We can make it bigger by clicking on + or smaller by clicking -. But be careful there should be white background chosen (The square below at the beginning of the palette should be white.) in the palette when you want to erase the parts.

3. Filling in the colours
Click the bucket in the tool palette and then the wanted colour in the colour palette. With this tool a closed part of the picture can be filled in with one click with the chosen colour (But remember! The lines should make a circle or other shape and the beginning of the line should touch the end of it).

4. Dripping tube
This tool chooses the colour from the picture and not from the colour palette. You click with the left button of the mouse on certain colour in the picture and you can use that same colour to draw some other parts.

5. magnifying glass
Enlarge the view of the picture to see it closer, to correct or fill in tiny pieces of an object.