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Microsoft Paint (officially titled Paint; sometimes called MS Paint; formerly Paintbrush for Windows) is a simple graphics painting program that has been included with all versions of Microsoft Windows since its first release. Image File history File links Mspaintvista. ...
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Windows Vista is the name of the latest release of Microsoft Windows, a line of proprietary graphical operating systems used on personal computers, including home and business desktops, notebook computers, and media centers. ...
Software development is the translation of a user need or marketing goal into a software product. ...
Microsoft Corporation, (NASDAQ: MSFT, HKSE: 4338) is a multinational computer technology corporation with global annual revenue of US$44. ...
A software release refers to the creation and availability of a new version of a computer software product. ...
An operating system (OS) is a computer program that manages the hardware and software resources of a computer. ...
Microsoft Windows is the name of several families of proprietary operating systems by Microsoft. ...
In computer graphics, graphics software or image editing software is a program or collection of programs that enable a person to manipulate visual images on a computer. ...
A software license is a legal agreement which may take the form of a proprietary or gratuitous license as well as a memorandum of contract between a producer and a user of computer software. ...
This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ...
A website (or Web site) is a collection of web pages, typically common to a particular domain name or subdomain on the World Wide Web on the Internet. ...
It has been suggested that CG artwork be merged into this article or section. ...
Microsoft Windows is the name of several families of proprietary operating systems by Microsoft. ...
The program opens and saves files as Windows bitmap (24-bit, 256 color, 16 color, and monochrome, all with the .bmp extension), JPEG, GIF (without animation or transparency), PNG (without alpha channel), and TIFF. Older versions cannot open or edit PNG files, and can only open GIF, JPEG, and TIFF files with a graphics filter for the specific file type. In addition, newer versions no longer support the PCX format, or some older special formats like RLE. Furthermore, the newer versions do not support the older MSP file format, readable by Paintbrush in Windows 3.x and used with versions of Paint in Windows version 1 and 2. DIB redirects here. ...
Something which is monochromatic has a single color. ...
In computing, JPEG (pronounced JAY-peg; IPA: ) is a commonly used standard method of compression for photographic images. ...
An example of a GIF image. ...
A PNG image with an 8-bit transparency channel (top). ...
In computer graphics, alpha compositing is often useful to render image elements in separate passes, and then combine the resulting multiple 2D images into a single, final image in a process called compositing. ...
This article is about TIFF, the computer image format. ...
PCX is an image file format that uses a simple form of run-length encoding (a type of lossless compression algorithm). ...
RLE could be Run-length encoding Real life experience This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ...
MSP is a three-letter abbreviation with several meanings: In computing, MSP is a mainframe operating system from Fujitsu Magic Solution Partner Malabar Special Police Maintenance Support Package Managed Service Provider Manic Street Preachers, a Welsh rock band Mass Storage Pedestal Master Sales Plan Medical Services Plan Medicare Secondary Payer...
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The program can be in color mode or two-color black-and-white, but there is no grayscale mode. Black-and-white or black and white) can refer to a general term used in photography, film, and other media (see black-and-white). ...
In computing, a grayscale or greyscale digital image is an image in which the value of each pixel is a single sample. ...
Tools and functions
 The Paint main toolbars allowing selection of tools and colors Recent versions of Paint allow the user to pick up to three colors at a time: the primary color (left mouse click), secondary color (right mouse click), and tertiary color (control key + any mouse click). The tertiary color function was for creating GIF files with a transparent background; however, in the Windows XP version of Paint this is no longer possible. Image File history File links Paint_screenshot_file0000000231. ...
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A Control key (marked Ctrl) on a modern Windows keyboard In computing, a Control key is a key, which when pressed in conjunction with another key, will perform a special operation. ...
The program comes with the following options in its Tool Box: Free-Form Select, Select, Eraser/Color Eraser, Fill With Color, Pick Color, Magnifier, Pencil, Brush, Airbrush, Text, Line, Curve, Rectangle, Polygon, Ellipse, and Rounded Rectangle. MS Paint does not have the ability to automatically create color gradients. Color is an important part of the visual arts. ...
Opening from the original Zoom. ...
A Pencil. ...
Different styles of paintbrushes The term brush refers to a variety of devices mainly with bristles, wire or other filament of any possible material used mainly for cleaning, grooming hair, painting, deburring and other kinds of surface finishing, but also for many other purposes like (but not limited to) seals...
Paasche F#1 Single Action External Mix Airbrush An airbrush is a small, air-operated tool that sprays various media including ink and dye, but most often paint by a process of atomization. ...
The term text has multiple meanings depending on the context of its use: In language, text is a broad term for something that contains words to express something. ...
Three lines — the red and blue lines have same slope, while the red and green ones have same y-intercept. ...
In the mathematical subfield of numerical analysis a Bézier curve is a parametric curve important in computer graphics. ...
In geometry, a rectangle is defined as a quadrilateral where all four of its angles are right angles. ...
Look up polygon in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...
The ellipse and some of its mathematical properties. ...
The "Image" menu offers the following options: Flip/Rotate, Stretch/Skew, Invert Colors, Image Attributes, Clear Image, and Draw Opaque. The "Colors" menu allows the user to Edit Colors (only menu option under Colors). The Edit Colors dialog box shows a 48-color palette and 12 custom color slots that can be edited. Clicking "Define Custom Colors" displays a square version of the color wheel that can select a custom color either with a crosshair cursor (like a "+"), by Hue/Saturation/Luminance, or by Red/Green/Blue values. A drawing of different reticles used in telescopic sights. ...
The default colors in the Color Box could be described as the following colors: Black, White, Gray, Silver, Maroon, Red, Olive, Yellow, Dark Green, Green, Teal, Cyan, Navy blue, Blue, Purple, Magenta, Old Gold, Lemon Yellow, Slate grey, Kelly green, Dark Carolina blue, Aquamarine, Midnight blue, Periwinkle, Violet-blue, Coral, Brown and Pumpkin orange. Black is the shade of objects that do not reflect light of any parts of the visible spectrum. ...
White is the color of things that reflect light of all parts of the visible spectrum equally and are not dull (see grey). ...
Gray or grey is a color seen commonly in nature. ...
General Name, Symbol, Number silver, Ag, 47 Chemical series transition metals Group, Period, Block 11, 5, d Appearance lustrous white metal Atomic mass 107. ...
Maroon is a color mixture composed of brown and purple. ...
Red may be any of a number of similar colours at the lowest frequencies of light discernible by the human eye. ...
Olive is a dulled, darker yellowish-green color typically seen on green olives. ...
Yellow is any color of light that stimulates both the red and green cone cells of the retina, but not the blue cone cells. ...
Green is a color with many different shades, all within a wavelength of roughly 520–570 nm. ...
Teal is a bluish-green color, darker than cyan and hence more greenish-looking (compare the colors yellow and olive). ...
Cyan (from Greek κυανοs, meaning blue) may be used as the name of any of a number of a range of colors in the blue/green part of the spectrum. ...
Navy blue is a color, an especially dark shade of blue. ...
The term Blue may refer any of a number of similar colors. ...
The term purple in its widest sense refers to a wide variety of shades of color occurring between blue and red. ...
Magenta is a color made up of equal parts of red and blue light. ...
Old Gold is a dark yellow, which varies from light olive or olive brown to deep or strong yellow. ...
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Slate Slate is a fine-grained, homogeneous, metamorphic rock derived from an original sedimentary rock composed of clay or volcanic ash through low grade regional metamorphism. ...
Aquamarine is a color, a shade between green and cyan. ...
Midnight Blue is a dark shade of blue that was named for its darkness. ...
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The color brown is a dark red or orange of very low intensity. ...
Pumpkin is a color that resembles pumpkins. ...
A color palette is also available.
Paint also has a few hidden functions not mentioned in the help file: a "trail mode" and "10x Zoom".
For the stamp mode, the user can select part of the image, hold the control key, and move it to another part of the canvas. This, instead of cutting the piece out, creates a copy of it. The process can be repeated as many times as desired, as long as the control key is held down. The trail mode works exactly the same, but it uses the shift key instead of the control key. 10x Zoom can be accessed by clicking right below the 8x Zoom button (there is a line about 2 pixels high. Click that to obtain 10x Zoom.) It may have been a removed feature, or it may be only a bug on the maths used to obtain the zoom level. A Control key (marked Ctrl) on a modern Windows keyboard In computing, a Control key is a key, which when pressed in conjunction with another key, will perform a special operation. ...
The shift key on a modern Windows keyboard The shift key is a modifier key on a keyboard, used to type capital letters and other alternate upper characters. ...
The user may also draw straight horizontal, vertical, or diagonal lines with the pencil tool, without the need of the straight line tool, by holding the shift key and dragging the tool. Moreover, it is also possible to thicken (control key + +) or thin (control key + −) a line simultaneously while it is being drawn. The shift key on a modern Windows keyboard The shift key is a modifier key on a keyboard, used to type capital letters and other alternate upper characters. ...
A Control key (marked Ctrl) on a modern Windows keyboard In computing, a Control key is a key, which when pressed in conjunction with another key, will perform a special operation. ...
The plus and minus signs (+ and −) are used universally to represent the notions of positive and negative as well as the operations of addition and subtraction. ...
A Control key (marked Ctrl) on a modern Windows keyboard In computing, a Control key is a key, which when pressed in conjunction with another key, will perform a special operation. ...
The plus (+) and minus (−) signs are used universally to represent the notions of positive and negative as well as the operations of addition and subtraction. ...
For Windows Vista, the toolbar icons and default color palette have been updated. Also, unlimited undo levels, a zoom slider, and a crop function have been added. Windows Vista is the name of the latest release of Microsoft Windows, a line of proprietary graphical operating systems used on personal computers, including home and business desktops, notebook computers, and media centers. ...
Uses Despite its simplicity, Microsoft Paint is still widely used, especially for oekaki, paintmashes, and pixel artists since both forms of art require minimal resources. Oekaki (ãŠçµµæã) is the Japanese term to describe the act of drawing, literally meaning to doodle. On the Internet, an Oekaki is a message board system that revolves around computer art created by a local art program. ...
Paintmash is a term used to refer either to the program Microsoft Paint (sometimes called Paintbrush) or images created with it. ...
This monster (The Gunk) is an example of pixel art drawn using Microsoft Paint. ...
Negative associations
 This monster (named "The Gunk" by the artist) is an example of pixel art drawn solely with Paint Because of its simplicity and the fact that it has been bundled with every version of Windows to date, Microsoft Paint is usually associated with the concept of a newbie or otherwise inexperienced or clueless user, and images and drawings of poor quality are usually labelled as "made with Paint" in a somewhat derogatory manner. In the past, there have been shareware Windows programs featuring graphics drawn with MS Paint, which were easy to recognize because of their rough outlines and flat coloring with no gradients or color smoothing, typical of Microsoft Paint drawings made in a hurry, since those effects are not automated. Intentionally horrible images are also considered to be Microsoft Paint creations, although the connotation is more lighthearted and humorous. Image File history File links The_Gunk. ...
This monster (The Gunk) is an example of pixel art drawn using Microsoft Paint. ...
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Despite this, experienced artists (especially pixel and oekaki, as mentioned before) can create high quality images with the program.
Palette limitations When saving images in any of the supported formats using less than 24 bits per pixel, a warning message is displayed about possible loss of quality. This shouldn't be taken lightly, as Microsoft Paint lacks any form of binary, color or grayscale dithering or palette optimization, and the image will be saved with usually irreversibly scrambled colors, potentially ruining one's work. For example, a typical Windows screen will change the buttons and menubar from gray to khaki green. This is true even if the original image was of the same bit depth as the successively saved versions, except when using 24 bits. This article or section should be merged with Dither An illustration of dithering. ...
Variations Originally intended as a free replacement for the Paint software, Paint.NET offers greater functionality, as in the more advanced, commercial graphical editors, such as Adobe Photoshop and Corel Paint Shop Pro, and the open-source software image editor GIMP. Paint. ...
Adobe Photoshop is a bitmap graphics editor (with some text and vector graphics capabilities) published by Adobe Systems. ...
Paint Shop Pro (PSP) is a bitmap graphics editor and vector graphics editor for computers running the Microsoft Windows operating system that was originally published by Minneapolis-based Jasc Software. ...
Open source refers to projects that are open to the public and which draw on other projects that are freely available to the general public. ...
The GNU Image Manipulation Program, or GIMP, is a raster graphics editor application with some support for vector graphics. ...
Version screenshots
Paint in Windows 1.0 and 2.0. Image File history File links Mspaint-win1+2. ...
Windows 1. ...
Windows 2. ...
| Windows Paintbrush in Windows 3.0. Image File history File links Paintbrush-win31. ...
Windows 3. ...
| Paint in Windows 95. Image File history File links Paint_95. ...
Windows 95 is a consumer-oriented graphical user interface-based operating system. ...
| Paint in Windows 98. Image File history File links Paint_98. ...
Windows 98 (codenamed Memphis) is a graphical operating system released on June 25, 1998 by Microsoft and the successor to Windows 95. ...
| Paint in Windows XP. Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (1024x768, 159 KB) Microsoft Paint on Windows XP Originally uploaded as Paint XP.gif on 10 Aug 2006 by Seifip. ...
Windows XP is a line of operating systems developed by Microsoft for use on general-purpose computer systems, including home and business desktops, notebook computers, and media centers. ...
| Paint in Windows Vista. Image File history File links Paint_Vista. ...
Windows Vista is the name of the latest release of Microsoft Windows, a line of proprietary graphical operating systems used on personal computers, including home and business desktops, notebook computers, and media centers. ...
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See also It has been suggested that this article or section be merged into Comparison of raster graphics editors. ...
It has been suggested that List of raster graphics editors be merged into this article or section. ...
Pocket Paint on Windows CE Pocket Paint is a pocket-size version of Microsoft Paint. ...
Oekaki (ãŠçµµæã) is the Japanese term to describe the act of drawing, literally meaning to doodle. On the Internet, an Oekaki is a message board system that revolves around computer art created by a local art program. ...
This monster (The Gunk) is an example of pixel art drawn using Microsoft Paint. ...
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