Microsoft Paint
Table of Contents:
This list of links is your quick-reference to get to any page within the Paint tutorial pages. After you've finished going through the class in the original presentation order, feel free to bookmark this page and return to it whenever you need to brush up on some topic.

1. Start Page
1. Title Bar
2. Tools Page
1. Selection Tools
2. Eraser Tool
3. Fill Tool
4. Eyedropper Tool
5. Zoom Tool
6. Pencil Tool
7. Paint Brush Tool
8. Airbrush Tool
9. Text Tool
10. Line Tool
11. Curve Tool
12. Shapes Tools
3. Menus Page
1. File
2. Edit
3. View
4. Image
5. Colors
6. Help
4. Conclusion Page

verview:
In this class you’ll learn the basics of how to use Microsoft Paint to open, edit and save an image file (such as a scanned image that you create with the scanner, or an image that you draw or "paint" digitally from scratch).
Launch Microsoft Paint:
Click on the Start Button, move the mouse up to the Programs Folder. Then move the mouse up to the Accessories Folder. Mouse over to the Paint icon, and click on it. Paint will then launch, opened to a new (blank) picture.
The Paint window will look like this:
You will want to familiarize yourself with the look and layout of this window, as it is very similar to other paint/image manipulation programs such as Adobe Photoshop. Learning the basic features of Paint will make it easier for you to learn other, more complex programs that much more easily.
First, let’s maximize the Paint window by clicking the rectangular button to the left of the X button on the right side of the Paint window’s Title Bar. The Paint window should now fill out the entire screen. (If you’re very new to using Windows, click on the Title Bar link to learn more about how the Title Bar works.)
You don’t really use the Title Bar for anything, but it’s good to know about it. Now that you do, you should be ready to learn about using the tools of Paint.

Title Bar

Understanding how to read the title bar is a basic skill in Windows. The Title Bar is indicated by the red circle in the illustration at left. The Icon (at far left) gives you a clue as to what program the window belongs to. In this case, the Icon shows that the window belongs to Microsoft Paint.
To the right of the title bar, you’ll see some text. The first bit of text is the name of the file that is currently open in this program. Since we’ve just launched Paint, we see a new (blank) document, which is named "untitled" by default. The next bit of text tells us again that this window is a Paint window, just like the Icon did. It’s redundant, but redundancy is common to the Windows interface.
At the right side of the tool bar, you’ll see three buttons: From left to right, they are: Minimize, Maximize/Restore, and Close. If you click on Minimize, the window will shrink down and disappear, leaving only the window tab on the task bar (usually located the very bottom of the screen) to let you know that the window is still open. Click tab to bring the window back to its previous size. Maximize/Restore will switch the window between taking up the full size of the screen and some smaller portion of it. When Restored, you can re-size the window by clicking along the edge of the window and dragging it to the desired size. You can also move the window about by clicking and holding the Title Bar and dragging the mouse around. When Maximized, the window takes up the entire screen and can’t be moved around or re-sized. Clicking on the Close button will shut the program down completely.