Help on Paint
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Identifying the Canvas and the Tools
The Paint program displays the Paint window, which
contains the canvas to the right and a tool palette to the
left.
Paint is a bitmap graphics program, which means that it
treats pictures as a collection of dots called pixels. Different
drawing tools, such as the paintbrush (the default tool), the
pencil, and the text tool, edit the color of the pixels to either
the foreground color or the background color to create a
pattern.
Because the Paint canvas has so many pixels in every square
inch, you do not actually see patterns of dots. Instead you see
a collection of lines, shapes, and text.
The minimum size for a paint picture is 10 pixels by 10 pixels.
Depending on the layout of your picture, the total picture size
may be up to 2550 pixels by 3300 pixels or 3300 pixels by
2550 pixels.
The longest side of your picture may be up to 3300 pixels.
The shortest side may be up to 2550 pixels.
The Paint window frames a portion of the canvas.
Horizontal and vertical scroll bars indicate the percentage
of the canvas in the Paint window. Also, the canvas area
appears at the base of the tool palette. The canvas area is the
boldface box within the larger box.
Additional topics:
* Using the Tool Palette
* Choosing Menu Items
* Erasing
* Drawing Lines and Shapes
* Using the Paintbrush
* Inserting Text
* Saving a Picture
* Printing a Picture
* Exiting Paint