What is M.S. Paint 

     M.S. PAINT

Paint is a drawing window. In this window we create any image with colorfully decoration. 
It provide various tools and each tool its their specific function. In the Paint document there is present Title bar, Menu bar, tool box, colour box, status bar, scroll bar,task bar.

To Open Paint do this-

Start-All Programme-Accessories-Paint & click.
File Name: Bitmap image.
File Extension: .bmp


Tool Box: - In the tool box 16 tools are present:

1.     Select   

2.     Airbrush

3.     Free Form Select     

4.     Text

5.     Eraser         

6.     Line 

7.     Fill with color       

8.     Curve 

9.     Pick Color           

10. Rectangle 

11. Magnifier                 

12. Polygon 

13. Pencil                     

14. Rounded Rectangle

15. Brush 

16. Ellipse


Colour Box: - Colour box situated at the down side of work area. In the colour box 28 colours are present. We can set or change the Foreground color by left clicking and set the background color by right clicking on the colour box.

MENU OPTION OF PAINT WINDOW

  1. File: (Alt+F): File
  2. New: (Ctrl+ N): - To create a new document.
  3. Open: (Carl+0): - To open an existing file.
  4. Save: (Ctrl+S): - To save a file.
  5. Save As: - To save a file with another name.
  6. Print Preview: - To see preview of a document how it will look after print.
  7. Page setup: - To set page size, orientation, margin etc.
  8. Print: (Ctrl+P): - To print a document.
  9. Set as wallpaper: -To set a drawing as desktop background-1. Center, 2. Tiled
  10. Recent File: - Four recent file are present.
  11. Send: - Send your file via e-mail.
  12. Exit: (Alt+F4): To close an active document.
Edit (Alt+E)
Undo: (Ctrl+Z): To reverse last action
Repeat: (Ctrl+Y): To reverse last actions done by undo.
Cut:(Ctrl+X)-To remove a selected object.
Copy:(Ctrl+C) - To make a duplicate of a selected object.
Paste:(Ctrl+V)-To paste the cut or copied matter.
Clear Selection: (Del):-To delete the selected object.
Select All:(Ctrl+A)-To select all the items in active document.
Copy To:- Lets you to save a section or a selected part of your drawing.
Paste Form:- You can Insert any file into your recently opened file.

VIEW (Alt+V)

1. Tool box: (Ctrl+T)-To Show/Hide tool box.
2. Color Box: (Ctrl+L)-To Show/Hide color box.
3. Status Bar:-To Show /Hide status bar.
4. Text Tool Bar:-To Show /Hide text tool bar.
5. Zoom:-To set your document zooms as 100,200,400,600 and 800 from custom option.
In the zoom there are many option are present, as-
(a) Normal 
(b)Large
(d)Show Grid 
(e)Thumbnail
(c)Custom
6. View Bitmap: (Ctrl+F)-To Show full page preview of the object show that all elements get hide.

Image ( Alt+1)

1. Flip Rotate: (Ctrl+R)-To flip Vertical & Horizontal or rotate by angle (90°,180°,270°
2. Stretch & Skew: (Ctrl+W)-To stretch your image in horizontal and vertical and skew by any degree as per your requirement.
3. Insert Color: (Ctrl+I)-To convert your image in to its invert color.
4. Attributes: (Ctrl+E)-Lets you change the size of page and also shows the black and white view of object.
5. Clear image: (Ctrl+Shift+N)-To remove the image without selection.
6. Draw Opaque:-To remove the background color of an object.

Color (Alt+C)

Color:- To add a new color by replacing a color to the color box.

Help (Alt+H)

i. Help Topic:-
ii. About Paint:-