Paint


 
 
Opening a Picture from a File
Change the Size of a Picture
Select Part of a Picture
Make an Image Larger
Adding Text to a Picture
Tips About Graphics

Working in Paint

Opening a picture from a file

  1. Open a picture by selecting Open from the file menu.
  2. Click on the down arrow beside Files of type: and select All Files
  3. Go to Look in and select the C drive
  4. Double click on Program Files
  5. Double Click on Microsoft office
  6. Double Click on Clip Art
  7. Double Click on Photos
  8. Double Click on one of the folders
  9. Double Click on one of the pictures to open it.
NOTE: If your toolbars are not visible. Click on the View menu and select all of the toolbars

To change the size of a picture

  1. With the picture in paint.
  2. Click on Select all from the Edit Menu.  Dotted Line will appear around the picture.
  3. Select Stretch and Skew from the Image Menu
  4. Click in the Horizontal box and type 50. Click in the Vertical Box and type 50. This will make your picture smaller.

Select Part of the Picture

  1. Click on the box that is outlined with a dotted line
  2. Select the part of the picture that you want by clicking and draging.
  3. If you do not like what you selected, click outside of your selection and try it again.
  4. Go to the Edit menu and click on Cut
  5. Your picture will disapear.
  6. On the file menu, click on new.
  7. When it asks you to save changes. Click No
  8. On the Edit Menu, Click Paste
  9. You should now have your new picture


Ok, Now my white background is to big.

  1. Put your mouse on the bottom right hand corner of the picture until it turns into a double sided black arrow.
  2. Click and drag the white background til it is the same size as your picture.
  3. mmm.....right size the background is.....

To make the image larger

    1. Before you can make the image larger, you must make the background larger by clicking and draging on the right hand corner of the picture.
    2. This makes the white part larger by doing the opposite of what you did above.
    3. Click on the image menu and select stretch skew.
    4. Type in 150 in the horizontal box.
    5. Type in 150 in the vertical box.
    6. You now need to go make the white part small again like you did above.
       Bigger, I am.

Adding Text to the Picture

  1. Click on the A that is in the menu on the left of your picture
  2. On the bottom there are two buttons. They are bother blue, red and green.  If you click on the top one, your text box will be white. If you click on the bottom one the text will go over your current background. Pick one.
  3. Click and drag where you want to put your text.
  4. There is a bar at the bottom with many colors on it.  Click on one of them and that will be the color of your text.  I will pick yellow.

NOTE: There is also a help menu available in Paint
 

A few tips about graphics

Bit-mapped graphics are often referred to as raster graphics. The other method for representing images is known as vector graphics or object-oriented graphics. With vector graphics, images are represented as mathematical formulas that define all the shapes in the image. Vector graphics are more flexible than bit-mapped graphics because they look the same even when you scale them to different sizes. In contrast, bit-mapped graphics become ragged when you shrink or enlarge them.

JPEG is probably the best way to save your file.   It takes up less space and you can shrink it or enlarge it without it being distorted.
 


 


 

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