Using Paint

Table of Contents

• Using Paint
  • Starting and exiting Paint
  • Creating, opening, and saving pictures
    • Creating a new picture
    • Opening an existing picture
    • Renaming a picture
    • Saving changes
    • Undoing changes
  • Selecting drawing tools and patterns
    • Selecting a drawing tool
    • Selecting a drawing pattern
  • Selecting an area
  • Drawing and erasing
    • Drawing with the pencil
    • Drawing straight lines
    • Changing line width
    • Drawing shapes
    • Changing a pointer's hot spot
    • Erasing an area
  • Copying, moving and deleting
    • Copying a drawing area
    • Cutting and pasting a drawing area
    • Deleting an area
    • Moving an area
    • Copying pictures to the Root window
  • Painting with colors
  • Using the Color Palette
    • Changing the colors of Color Palette Buttons 1 and 3
    • Adding colors to the Color Palette
    • Starting the Color Picker
    • Using the Color Picker color wheel
  • Filling an area with color
  • Converting color pictures to black and white
    • Saving a color picture to black and white
    • Displaying a color picture in black and white
    • Mapping colors to black and white
  • Copying colors from the Desktop
  • Adding text to a picture
    • Typing text in a picture
    • Changing the font
  • Magnifying or shrinking a view
  • Displaying a picture in actual size
  • Inverting an area
  • Rotating or flipping a drawing area
  • Selecting files
  • Paint accelerators keys
• Index