Sep 03, 2020 How to Use Microsoft Paint in Windows. This wikiHow teaches you how to use Microsoft Paint on a Windows computer. Microsoft Paint is a classic Windows program that has survived the transition to Windows 10. The lightweight freeware is available on Microsoft Windows 32-bit and 64-bit devices with system requirements being those of Windows 10, Windows 8, and Windows 7. Is Paint.NET safe? Mentored by Microsoft and led by an undergraduate college student, Paint.NET came about to provide a free replacement to the Microsoft Paint software that was. Microsoft Paint is a basic graphics and painting tool that is genuine part of all Microsoft Windows suites. The program in question provides basic functionality for drawing and painting in color or black and white, as well as shaped stencils and cured line tools.
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Microsoft Paint Windows 98
- Released:
- Jun 25, 1998
- Size:
- 336.00 KB
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Microsoft Paint XP
- Released:
- Aug 21, 2001
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- 427.00 KB
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| Software Version | Release Date | Size |
|---|---|---|
| Microsoft Paint XP | Aug 21, 2001 | 427.00 KB |
| Microsoft Paint Windows 98 | Jun 25, 1998 | 336.00 KB |
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Microsoft Paint is not the Photoshop for the poor, nor is it a powerful image editor. I've always used it as a simple screen shot capturing tool where I can quickly screen capture, save as GIF (Windows 98 versions of MS Paint could only save as BMP) and upload it to show someone a bug I'm experiencing on a web platform. Are there truly any other uses for this program? Well, yes -- I do recall seeing some really fantastic MS Paint drawings. Search for 'MS Paint drawings' and you'll see what I mean -- the Venice one is truly fantastic, although the guy cheated and used Photoshop for some filters afterward so I don't know if we can truly count that ;).
MS Paint has been bundled with Windows since 1.0, although it has evolved greatly to its current iteration (I haven't yet played around with Windows 8 Paint) and Windows XP versions of Paint can apparently be used to scan documents (although I've never used it for that purpose). Windows 7 Paint doesn't feel like Paint. It feels as if I'm using the new version of Microsoft Office, but the problem with that is, MS Paint is not an Office product, hence the Graphics category you see above.
So to start off our MS Paint section, below you will find the version of MS Paint that came with Windows XP. It will work on Windows 7. In fact, you can even replace your Windows 7 Version with MS Paint, by replacing mspaint.exe (probably in c:windowssystem32) with the file you download below. Of course, you need to rename it to mspaint.exe as well. Windows 7 Paint is 6.2MB compared to Windows XP Paint being a mere 427KB. Oops!
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Microsoft Paint or 'MS Paint' is a basic graphics/painting utility that is included in all the Microsoft Windows versions.
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- MS Paint can be used to draw, colour and edit pictures, including imported pictures from a digital camera for example.
- MS Paint is found in the Windows Start menu within the Accessories Folder.
- It can save creations in standard formats such as .jpg and .bmp
- Paint can enable ‘painting’ by dragging the mouse and using different types of artistic brushes or pens that can give for example a watercolour or oil effect. The paint also ‘runs out’ on certain brushes after a period of time so that the brush needs to be put back into the colour again, as if it was a real painting brush.
- More recent versions of Paint allow up to three colours to be picked at a time using the primary colour with left mouse click, the secondary colour with right mouse click and the tertiary colour with the control key on the keyboard and any mouse click
- Features included in paint are pencil, brush and airbrush tool. The ability to add text, lines and shapes. Also included are an eraser, magnifier, and fill colour tools.
- Many complex graphics software applications have concepts that are included in Microsoft Paint and the same principals can be applied in these from learning within Microsoft Paint.
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