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.

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 .