How To Draw In Microsoft Paint

Raster graphics editor

Microsoft Paint

Paint on Windows 11
Other names	Paintbrush (1985–1995)
Developer(s)	Microsoft

Stable release	11.2110.0.0^[1] / October 4, 2022; iv months ago (2021-10-04)

Operating arrangement	Microsoft Windows
Platform	IA-32, x86-64, and ARM (historically Itanium, December Alpha, MIPS, and PowerPC)
Included with	All Microsoft Windows versions
Type	Raster graphics editor

Microsoft Paint is a elementary raster graphics editor that has been included with all versions of Microsoft Windows. The program opens and saves files in Windows bitmap (BMP), JPEG, GIF, PNG, and single-folio TIFF formats. The program tin can be in color mode or two-color blackness-and-white, merely at that place is no grayscale mode. For its simplicity and that it is included with Windows, it rapidly became one of the nearly used applications in the early versions of Windows, introducing many to painting on a figurer for the get-go time. It is still widely used for elementary paradigm manipulation tasks.

In July 2022, Microsoft added Paint to the list of deprecated features of Windows ten and appear that it would become a costless standalone application in Microsoft Store. Microsoft had envisioned Paint 3D equally a replacement. Yet, Pigment connected to exist included with Windows 10. Microsoft eventually reversed course and appear an updated version of Paint in Windows xi. Instead, Microsoft deprecated Paint 3D.^[2]

History [edit]

The first version of Paint was introduced with the first version of Windows, Windows one.0, in Nov 1985. Information technology was a licensed version of ZSoft Corporation'south PC Paintbrush and supported only i-bit monochrome graphics nether a proprietary "MSP" format. This version was subsequently superseded by Paintbrush in Windows 3.0, with a redesigned user interface, true colour support, and back up for the BMP and PCX file formats.

Microsoft shipped an updated version of Paint with Windows 95 and Windows NT 4.0, which allows saving and loading a custom gear up of color wells as color palette (.pal) files.^[three] This functionality simply works correctly if the color depth of images is sixteen-bits per pixel (bpp) or higher. Later versions of Paint exercise not support this characteristic.

In Windows 95–98, Windows 2000 and Windows Me, Paint can open up JPEG, GIF and 48-bit (xvi-bpp) TIF images and save images in JPEG and GIF formats when appropriate graphics filters are installed. Such plug-ins are included with Microsoft Office and Microsoft PhotoDraw. This also allows Paint to use transparent backgrounds.^[four] ^[5] Support for PCX files was dropped.^[6] Starting with Windows Me, the canvas size expands automatically when larger images are opened or pasted, instead of asking.

In Windows XP and later, Paint uses GDI+ and therefore can natively save images equally BMP, JPEG, GIF, TIFF and PNG without requiring additional graphics filters.^[7]

In Windows Vista, the toolbar icons and default color palette were inverse. Pigment in Windows Vista can disengage a modify up to 10 times, compared to 3 in previous versions; it besides includes a slider for prototype magnification and a crop function. This version saves in JPEG format by default.^[8]

Windows 7 and viii.10 [edit]

The version of Pigment in Windows seven and afterwards features a ribbon in its user interface.^[9] Information technology too features "creative" brushes composed of varying shades of gray and some degree of transparency that give a more than realistic result. To add to the realism, the oil and watercolor brushes can merely paint for a pocket-sized distance before the user must re-click (this gives the illusion that the paintbrush has run out of paint). In addition, Pigment tin can now undo up to l subsequent changes. It too has anti-aliased shapes, which can be resized freely until they are rasterized when another tool is selected. This version supports viewing (but not saving) transparent PNG and ICO file formats and saves files in the .png file format by default.

Text can at present be pasted into text boxes that don't have plenty room to display the text. A text box tin then be enlarged or reshaped appropriately to fit the text if desired. Previous versions of Pigment would display an error bulletin if a user tried to paste more than text than there was room for.^{[ citation needed ]}

The Windows 8 version of Paint more often than not corrects a long-standing defect from previous versions involving the disability to scroll the window when editing in Zoom view over 100%. Notwithstanding, when inserting text in Zoom view, the user cannot motion the text beyond the zoomed viewport while the text window is in edit style with either the mouse or keyboard.

Windows ten [edit]

In the April 2022 "Creators Update" for Windows x, Microsoft released Pigment 3D alongside Paint. In add-on to the traditional 2-dimensional drawing tools, Paint 3D tin import and manipulate iii-dimensional models.^[10] ^[11] Three months after, on July 23, 2022, Microsoft added Paint to the listing of deprecated Windows features.^[12] The next day, in the wake of "an incredible outpouring of support and nostalgia", Microsoft antiseptic that Pigment would get a gratuitous app on Microsoft Store, even though Paint 3D offers the same functionality.^[13] ^[14]

Paint, nevertheless, remained a part of all versions of Windows 10. The closest Microsoft e'er got to enacting said determination was adding a removal discover to Paint'southward user interface in Windows 10 versions 1803 and 1809.^[fifteen]

In March 2022, with the release of Windows 10 Insider build 21332 to the Dev Channel, Microsoft removed Paint 3D from clean installations of the build, in addition to the 3D Objects app.^[16]

In April 2022, Microsoft released Windows 10 Insider build 21354, which made Paint (forth with Snipping Tool) updatable from the Microsoft Store. It had also been moved from the Windows Accessories binder of the Start carte to its own section.^[17] ^[eighteen]

Windows 11 [edit]

In Baronial 2022, Microsoft teased an updated version of Paint for Windows eleven, featuring a refreshed UI, improved font picker, and a dark theme.^[2]

Features [edit]

Pigment has a few functions not mentioned in the aid file: a postage stamp mode, trail fashion, regular shapes, and moving pictures.^[19] For the stamp manner, the user can select a office of the image, concur the Ctrl key, and move information technology to another office of the canvas. This, instead of cutting the piece out, creates a copy of information technology. The process tin can exist repeated equally many times as desired, as long every bit the Ctrl cardinal is held down. The trail mode works exactly the same, merely information technology uses the ⇧ Shift instead of the Ctrl key.

The user may as well draw direct horizontal, vertical, or diagonal lines with the pencil tool, without the need of the directly line tool, by belongings the ⇧ Shift key and dragging the tool. Moreover, it is also possible to thicken or sparse a line either before or simultaneously while it is being drawn via Ctrl++ (NumPad only) or Ctrl+- (NumPad only). To ingather whitespace or eliminate parts of a graphic, the blue handle in the lower right corner can be dragged to increase canvass size or crop a graphic. Users can also draw perfect shapes (which accept a width equal to the height) using any shape tool by holding down the ⇧ Shift while dragging.

Older versions of Paint, such as the one bundled with Windows three.1, characteristic a colour-replace brush, which replaced a single color underneath the brush with another without affecting the balance of the image. In later versions of Paint, the colour erase castor may be simulated by selecting the color to exist replaced every bit the primary colour, and the i information technology is replaced with as the secondary color, and and then right-click dragging the erase tool.

Support for indexed palettes [edit]

Past default, about all versions of Paint are generally unable to properly downgrade created images to indexed palettes using fewer than 24 bits per pixel. When saving an image in a format that uses indexed palettes with fewer than 24 $.25 per pixel, a alert message appears well-nigh the loss of quality. Paint does not use binary, color or grayscale dithering or palette optimization, and the image volition exist saved with usually irreversibly scrambled colors.

Paint is nonetheless able to correctly load and salvage indexed palettes in any of the supported formats if an prototype is opened every bit an 8-fleck or otherwise indexed palette prototype. In that case, the image'southward palette is preserved when saving. However, in that location is no style to meet the bodily palette; color choices for brushes, text, and erasers as well equally user-defined colors volition be express to the closest available color in the indexed palette.^[20]

Encounter also [edit]

Arranged Pigment equivalents on other OSes

Deluxe Paint, for Amiga
KolourPaint, for KDE
MacPaint, for Macintosh
Pinta, for GNOME
Pocket Paint, for Windows CE
PaintZ, for Chrome OS

Misc.

Comparison of raster graphics editors
Microsoft Fresh Pigment
GIMP
Pixel art, a grade of digital art

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