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''Paint'' (formerly '''Paintbrush for Windows''') is a simple Graphics Painting program that has been included with almost all versions of Microsoft Windows since its first release. It is often referred to as '''MS Paint''' or '''Microsoft Paint'''. 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, although the Windows 98 version and a Windows 95 upgrade did support the latter), PNG (without Alpha Channel ), and TIFF . The program can be in color mode or two-color Black-and-white , but there is no Grayscale mode. HISTORY The first version of ''Paint'' was introduced with the first version of Windows, Windows 1.0 . This version only supported the MSP and .bmp file formats. This format is no longer supported by newer versions of ''Paint'', along with PCX and RLE . 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 Windows 95 , a new version of ''Paint'' was introduced. The same icons and color palette continued to be used through Windows XP . In the Windows 98 , Windows 2000 or Windows Me versions of ''Paint'', images could be saved in JPEG and GIF formats if the necessary Microsoft graphics filters were installed, usually by another Microsoft application such as Microsoft Office or Microsoft PhotoDraw . Also, the canvas size was expanded automatically when larger images were opened or pasted. In depth images. Also, since another accessory, Imaging, was discontinued in Windows XP, support for acquiring images from a scanner or a digital camera was also added to ''Paint''. However, the tertiary color function, used for creating GIF files with a transparent background, was removed. Also, the ability to save and load palette colors to and from ''.pal'' files was removed. In Windows Vista , the toolbar icons and default color palette have been updated. Also, an increased number of undo levels, a zoom slider, and a crop function have been added. FEATURES 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 program comes with the following options in its ''Tool Box'' (from left to right in image):
''Paint'' does not have the ability to automatically create color gradients. 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. The default colors in the ''Color Box'' are the following: 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 . A color palette is also available. ''Paint'' also has a few hidden functions (or , 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 on a horizontal line of about 2 pixels right below the 8x zoom button. To access the strange brush, you can simply click just to the right of the smallest brush size, which will then give you a weird brush, which, when applied, makes strange lines. When you minimize the program, then restore it, the lines will be normal. 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. To crop whitespace or eliminate parts of a graphic, the blue handle in the lower right corner can be clicked and dragged to increase canvas size or crop a graphic. The colors in the image can be inverted by pressing Ctrl+ I. Users can also draw perfect shapes using the Rounded Rectangle, the Circle, and the Rectangle Tool. To draw a perfect shape, you simply press the Shift Key while dragging. Older versions of ''Paint'', such as the one bundled with Windows 3.1 , allowed controlling the drawing cursor with the use of Arrow Keys as well as a color-replace brush, which replaced a single color underneath the brush with another without affecting the rest of the image. In later versions of ''Paint'', the color erase brush may be simulated by selecting the color to be replaced as the primary color, and the one it will be replaced with as the secondary color, and then right-click dragging the erase tool. The drawing cursor can also be controlled with arrow keys in current versions of Paint if ''Mouse keys'' under ''Accessibility options'' is enabled and configured appropriately. SUPPORT FOR INDEXED PALETTES By default, almost all versions of ''Paint'' create 24-bit images and are generally unable to properly downgrade them to indexed palettes using less than 24 bits per pixel. This means that when saving images in any of the supported formats specifying a format that uses indexed palettes with less than 24 bits per pixel instead of true color formats, a warning message is displayed about possible loss of quality. In fact, ''Paint'' does not normally utilize binary, color or gray scale 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 menu bar from grey to khaki green when saved as an 8-bit BMP format. Saving to a monochrome BMP or a GIF format does invoke dithering processes; however, even these use a fixed black-and-white (in the case of monochrome BMP) or standard 256-color (in the case of GIF) palette. ''Paint'' is, nonetheless, able to correctly load and save indexed palettes in any of the supported formats if an image is opened as an 8-bit or otherwise indexed palette image. In that case, the image's palette will be preserved when saving. However, there is no way to see the actual palette, and color choices for brushes, text and erasers as well as user-defined colors will be limited to the closest available color in the indexed palette. VERSIONS |
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