How the program works

6. Pencil
We draw free lines – very thin.

7. Brush
We can choose the thickness of the line.

8. Sprayer
We can choose the thickness of it.

9. Text
Click this button and then click in the space you want the text to be, hold the left button of the mouse and pull it diagonally up or down to the size you want the text to be. Type in the text. You can choose the size and fonts and colours of the letters if you click the right button of the mouse (within the space for writing!!!) and here choose the possibility for text forming. Don’t click outside the rectangle for writing if you haven’t finished the text jet, because you won’t be able to continue it any more.

10. Line / Curve
We can choose the thickness of the line. For straight lines we simultaneously press the SHIFT button on the keyboard at the same time and draw the lines.

11. Rectangle / Polygon
Choose the rectangle. Put the cursor to the right place in the picture and pull it diagonally to make fictive rectangle. Release the button only when you think the shape is big enough. To make the square we simultaneously press the SHIFT button on the keyboard.

12. Ellipse/ Round off rectangle,
We can do them in a similar way as rectangle.  If we want to make a circle we simultaneously press the SHIFT button on the keyboard.

6. How we cut things

• Click the tool for cutting (at the top of the tools – fictive square or star)
• Put the cursor to the left part of the picture you want to cut
• Click and pull to the bottom right part you want to cut. (you will see the fictive rectangle)
• We can move the cut part, copy it, enlarge it or make it smaller, save it.

Save the cut part into the clipboard

• Choose the part you have cut.
• Do the Edit/Copy (it is saved in the clipboard)

Put the cut part into the picture

• Do Edit/Paste and the cut part will appear in the left upper corner.

Move the cut part

• Click with the left button of the mouse on the cut part
• And pull it to the new position

Save the picture to the hard disk or diskette

• In the FILE menu choose Save as and then choose the place in the hard disc (C, D, E) to save the image..

• disk C/D: (hard disk)
               A: (diskette)

How to give the name to the image

• The images in Paint have the ending . bmp
  Example: dog.bmp

How we open the saved image

• In the menu Files choose Open (File/Open)
• Choose the place( C/D/A:), folder (the name of it where the image is saved), the name of the document (bridge.bmp)
• Click on Open.

How we print the image

• In the menu File choose Print preview . If you think that the position of the image is OK, choose Print.
• In File menu choose Print. A printing window appears.

Instructions written by 
Jožica Murovec and Viljenka Šavli,  
Solkan Primary School .