Paint.NET is a free raster editor that will allow you to process drawings and photographs. Runs on the .NET Framework, so you may need to install it during installation required version, the program does this automatically.

Paint.NET has a Russian-language interface and is distributed completely free of charge. This is an excellent analogue to expensive editors. Supports the following image formats: BMP, GIF, JPEG, PNG, TIFF, TGA, DDS, has its own paint.net format (*.pdn). The program can work with layers, the image can be loaded directly from a scanner or camera, it is possible to adjust drawings, apply various effects to them, and much more.

Required system requirements for installation: Windows XP, Vista, 7 and later; 1 GHz processor; more than 1 GB random access memory; Free disk space – depends on the photo being processed and the operations applied to it.

Download Paint.NET for free you can follow the link below. The archive contains two versions of the program: 4.0.9 (6.7 MB) and 3.5.11 (3.6 MB). Those who have Windows XP installed need to install version 3.5.11.

Run the downloaded installation file on your computer. If the program does not find the required version of the .NET Framework on you, it will automatically download it and install it on your computer.

In the first window of the Paint.NET installation wizard, mark the item "Custom", select a language and click Next.

Accept the terms of the license agreement, click Next.

Check the boxes next to the required items. To open JPEG, PNG, BMP, TGA files by default in this program, check the first two boxes. You can enable or disable automatic checking for updates in the program settings. Click Next.

You don't have to change anything here. If you want, select a different folder to install the program on your computer by clicking Browse. Click Next.

In the next window, the wizard will inform you that Paint.NET is ready to install, click Next.

Then wait for the program to install and perform performance optimization for your computer. After that, click "Done".

If you did not uncheck the boxes in the previous window, Paint.NET will launch automatically. The main program window looks like this. The main menu tabs are located at the top; settings for the selected tool are displayed below. There are four additional windows open on the worksheet: “Tools”, “Palette”, “Journal”, “Layers”. To show or hide them, you need to click on the corresponding button in the upper right corner. There is also a button “Parameters”, in the form of a gear. All open files will be displayed at the top middle.

To open the desired image in the program, go to the "File" tab and select "Open" from the menu. Using Explorer, find the drawing on your computer.

Select any of the tools by highlighting it in the window or selecting it from the drop-down list, and apply it to the image. You can open the expanded palette by clicking on the “More” button.

To add a new layer in the “Layers” window, click on the corresponding button. A cross next to it will allow you to delete the selected layer. The check mark next to each layer makes it visible; to hide the layer, remove the check mark. You can also create a copy of the layer, merge them and swap them.

In the “Log” window, you can undo the last actions performed; just click on the blue “Undo” arrow.

The “Correction” menu tab will allow you to change the colors of the image, adjust its shades, adjust the brightness, and more. The Effects tab allows you to apply various effects to your image.

Moreover, when adjusting the parameters for the selected effect or performing a correction, you will immediately see the result in the image. If something doesn’t work, click “Cancel” in the settings window.

Graphics editor Paint.NET has a good set of functions, has a clear interface, you can work with layers in it, perform image correction and apply various effects to them. If desired, you can make a transparent background for the created image in Paint.NET.

I think you can easily draw a picture in it or correct the desired photo. Good luck to you!

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Microsoft is one of the largest and most famous companies on the market computer technology And software. She is the creator of the internationally popular series of products Microsoft Office, actively used not only on computer devices, but also on smartphones. Now we will talk about an equally well-known and relevant program - the raster graphics editor Paint.

What is this program?

Microsoft Paint is a fairly simple graphics editor. It is one of the mandatory programs. Comes with operating system Microsoft Windows. The graphic editor Paint is designed for creating and editing drawings of various color range and drawings. The works performed in this editor are called raster.

By raster graphics we mean a collection of lines consisting of pixels. Their set forms a two-dimensional array called a raster. It is worth noting that this editor has one important disadvantage - poor scaling. This construction leads to the fact that when the file size is increased or decreased, the picture becomes distorted.

First version

Graphic editor Paint appeared in version 1.0 operating system Windows. After update 3.0 it began to be released under the name Paintbrush. After the release of Windows 95 and all subsequent ones, it acquired its standard name.




Starting from the operating version Windows systems 98, the Paint graphics editor now has the ability to save images in GIF and JPEG format. True, this could only be realized due to the presence of graphic filters on the computer, for example Office or PhotoDraw.

Updates on Windows 7

This version is almost the most popular among modern Microsoft systems Windows. At this particular stage, the Paint graphic editor has undergone significant changes. Among them we can highlight the updated library of shapes. In addition to the main ones present, such as ellipse, curve, vector, 17 completely new shapes have appeared. These included:

• Arrows in different directions.
• Stars with varying amounts ends.
• Isosceles and right triangles.
• Rhombus.
• Pentagon and hexagon.
• "Bubbles" for comics.
• Lightning.
• Heart and others.

The following 5 tools of the Paint graphic editor also appeared:

• 45 degree tilt for calligraphy brush to the right and left;
• oil and pastel brushes;
• marker;
• texture pencil;
• watercolor.

It is now possible to change the parameters of a drawn figure. The fill and outline tools have also undergone changes. The following options have appeared:

• Absence.
• Monochromatic.
• Pastel.
• Marker.
• Pencil.
• Watercolor.
• Oil.

Updates on Windows 10

New major updates to the Paint graphic editor have appeared here. Now the program has the ability to work with images in 3D format. Also in version Fall Creators Update old version editor was completely removed.




Menu of the standard graphic editor Paint

This panel is located at the top of the program. It contains the following items:

• File.
• Edit.
• Drawing.
• Palette.
• Reference.



File

Contains the following features:

• Create. When clicked, a blank sheet of standard size is created.
• Open. Click on this button and open the file available on your computer in the Paint graphic editor. When selected, a window will appear with the standard directory or the one that the program accessed in last time. In the field that appears, you can select the destination folder yourself. When you find the required file, click on it with the left mouse button (hereinafter LMB, right mouse button) and click the “Open” button in the lower right corner. You can also double-click on the LMB file.
• Save. Saves the document under a standard name or instead of the previous file.
• Save as. Allows you to select the name and directory in which the document will be saved. When you select a function, a corresponding window will appear. In it you must enter the name of the saved file, the format of the saved image, and also select the folder in which it will be placed.
• Pave the desktop. Sets the maximum possible number of copies of the current picture (that will fit on the screen) as the desktop background.
• To the center of the desktop. Sets the current file as a desktop image, centered.



Edit

Contains the following commands:

• Cancel. An alternative to the Ctrl + Z keyboard shortcut. Undoes actions performed by the current tool.
• Cut out. Can be replaced with Ctrl + X. The selected section of the sheet will be cut and saved to the clipboard.
• Copy. It is also Ctrl + C. The selected fragment will be added to the clipboard.
• Insert. Alternative Ctrl + V. Pastes the element currently on the clipboard into the upper left corner of the project. Then it can be freely moved around the sheet.
• Clear selection. The specified fragment of the image will be deleted (can be returned with the “Cancel” command).
• Select all. Selects the entire project area.
• Copy to file... The selected fragment will be saved as a separate file.

View

This menu includes the following commands:

• Set of tools. Shows or hides the program toolbar;
• Palette. Shows or hides the palette.
• Status bar. Fixes it visible or removes the status bar.
• Text attributes panel. Shows or hides this feature.
• Scale. Allows you to resize the picture. There are three categories: regular, large (x4) and other. The latter allows you to change the zoom percentage from 100 to 800.
• View drawing. Places the drawing across the entire viewing area. When you click on any place in the picture, the LMB returns the previous state. Changing the picture in this mode impossible.



Drawing

Includes commands that can be used to change any selected worksheet element. This includes:

• Reflect. Mirrors the selected area of ​​the sheet.
• To turn. Mirrors the entire project.
• Stretch. Allows you to stretch or shrink the project along the selected axis.
• Tilt. Tilts an object along the selected axis.
• Reverse colors. Changes the palette, displaying the opposite colors to those in the picture.
• Attributes. Change the size of the picture according to the specified units of measurement and the type of picture: black and white or color.
• Clear. Replaces the selection or the entire image with the background color.
• Opaque background. One of the colors is indicated as transparent. This means that the layer below will be visible through it. Moreover, it will be visible only in those places where there is a transparent color. Save this property only possible in gif format.

Palette

There is only one command here - change the palette. Allows you to create custom colors. To carry out this procedure, select the main color, call the specified function, after which the expanded color menu opens.




Tools

• for free drawing;
• for drawing lines;
• to create standard shapes;
• to fill areas with different colors;
• to highlight areas;
• before entering text.

Freehand Drawing Tools

• Pencil. A tool for freehand drawing of lines. The line thickness can be adjusted in the settings palette. To create a straight line, hold down the Shift key.
• Brush. Exactly the same as the previous one - used for drawing lines. The starting thickness of the pen is slightly wider.
• Spray. Creates a loose patch of pixels. Also used for free drawing.
• Eraser. Removes elements from an image, leaving the background color.

Line drawing tools

• Line. Used to create a straight line. The thickness is selected in the same place as other devices for free drawing. To create a tilt angle while drawing, hold down the Shift key.
• Curve. Allows you to create curved lines without sharp corners. The thickness is also selected in the settings palette. Construction occurs according to to the following algorithm: the line itself is drawn, then using LMB, the first and second bends are created to the side of the drawing.

Creating Standard Shapes

• Rectangle. Used to create the figure of the same name. Through the settings palette, you can choose how its internal space will be filled. It can be an empty frame, background or primary color.
• Rounded rectangle. Similar function. Only the shape of the corners of the figure has been changed.
• Polygon. Allows you to draw an object with an arbitrary number of angles.
• Ellipse. Performs the function of drawing ellipses or circles. The latter is created while holding down the Shift key.

Fill color

• Filling. Colors a closed area of ​​a drawing with a background or foreground color. To use the main color, use LMB. For background – RMB. If the form is not closed, the entire project will be shaded.
• Choice of colors(aka pipette). The tool allows you to select a color not from the palette, but from the drawing itself. You need to move the cursor over the desired color and click LMB to set this color as the main color. RMB – as background.

Selecting areas

• Select a custom area. Usage of this instrument allows you to select any necessary fragment. When the LMB is pressed, the required area is outlined. The ends must be connected. If the button is released before the form is closed, the ends close together the shortest route. When you press LMB and RMB at the same time, the process will stop.
• Selection. Creates a rectangular area, allowing you to perform any manipulations with the selected fragment (paste into a picture or remove to the clipboard, drag). When moving with the Shift key pressed, a trace will be left.

Entering text

Includes the only function - the inscription. Performs text input function. After selecting the tool, a rectangular area is created. A text input field will be created in it. Next, by clicking inside the frame, we call up the attributes panel, which allows you to change the font and text size.

Results

Today, the graphic editor Paint is the most popular program for those who are not involved in professional design and drawing images on a computer. It is great for removing any unwanted components from an image, as well as for simple editing.

Paint graphic editor included standard programs Windows operating system. In terms of its capabilities, it is significantly inferior to professional graphic editors, but it has the necessary minimum tools for mastering the techniques of working with graphic information.

Appointment of the editor. The Paint program is a simple editor raster graphics, which allows you to create black and white and color drawings and save them in files. Drawings can be printed, inserted into other documents, and used as a desktop background. The Paint editor can be used to view and edit photographs taken using a scanner and camera. Paint can be used to work with bitmaps JPG format, GIF, TIFF, PNG and BMP.

Launch and program window. The graphic editor is launched with the command Start, Programs, Accessories, Paint.

After launch, the program’s working window opens on the screen, having a standard Windows application interface (Fig. 8.1).

The meaning of the commands on the program tape is as follows.

File. Contains commands for creating, opening, saving, closing, printing a document, etc.

Home. Commands for working with a selected fragment of a file, etc.

View. Commands for setting toolbars, palettes, scale.

Drawing. Commands for transforming a picture, setting its dimensions, setting background transparency.

Palette. Allows you to change the color palette.

The main part of the window is Workspace. The drawing can occupy part of the working area of ​​the window or all of it, and even go beyond it. In the latter case, scroll bars appear at the edges of the work area. On the borders of the picture there are size change markers (dark dots in the middle of the sides and at the corners of the picture).

To the left of the work area toolbar contains drawing tool buttons. When you select a tool, a window may appear at the bottom of the panel additional settings its properties. When you slowly move the mouse pointer along the toolbar, a label with the name of the toolbar button appears.

Below the working area is located palette. It contains a set of colors that you can use when drawing. If the required color is not in the palette, you can create it and replace it with any of the colors in the palette.

Saving the drawing. As in other Windows applications, saving is performed with the command Paint, Save or Paint, Save As. Paint saves drawings in BMP format. Files of this format differ greatly

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Small in size, but all Windows applications work with them. For web pages, Paint lets you save images in GIF, JPG, TIFF, and PNG formats, which produce smaller file sizes.

Drawing and graphic tools. The drawing is created using various tools. For the tool you click, select a color in the palette and, if necessary, adjust properties. There are main and background colors. The main color is used when working with tools, the background color is used as the color of the background canvas. All editor tools except Eraser, paint with the main color.

Eraser erases the image, replacing it with the background color (selected by right-clicking in the paint palette).

Line is intended for drawing straight lines when dragging the mouse. The line thickness is set in the settings. To make the line strictly vertical, horizontal or inclined at an angle of 45°, keep the key pressed while drawing Shift.

Pencil designed for drawing arbitrary lines. The thickness is set in the settings.

Curve used to create smooth curved lines. The thickness is selected in the settings. The construction is carried out in three steps: draw a straight line, then click and drag to the side of the line to set the first and second radii of curvature.

Brush used for free drawing of arbitrary curves, as well as for drawing using the padding method. First, select the brush shape in the settings palette, and then click the left mouse button to apply impressions to the drawing.

Spray used for free drawing and drawing using the typing method. The shape of the spot is selected in the settings.

Rectangle necessary for drawing rectangular shapes by dragging the mouse. If you hold down the key Shift, a square is being built. You can choose the method of filling the rectangle: no filling, filling with the foreground and background colors.

Rounded rectangle similar to a rectangle, but with rounded corners.

Polygon designed for drawing arbitrary polygons created by a series of drag-clicks. The closed shape can be automatically filled with paint according to the fill option selected in the setting.

Ellipse allows you to draw ellipses and circles (with the key pressed Shift).

Tool Selection forms a rectangular selection area, and Selecting a custom area – arbitrary. You can deal with the selected area as in all Windows applications: you can delete it, copy and cut it to the clipboard, and paste it from the clipboard. To reproduce repeating fragments, copy and paste the selected area. Two insertion modes: with or without preserving background graphics (background color dots in the pasted area are ignored). Switching the mode is done in the settings.

Operations with color. Tools for working with color Fill And Choice of colors, a color palette is used.

Fill serves to fill closed contours with the main or background color. Filling with the foreground color is performed by clicking the left mouse button, and filling with the background color is performed by clicking the right mouse button. If the contour is not closed, the tool does not work properly; in this case you should run the command Edit, Cancel.

Choice of colors allows you to select the main or additional color not from the paint palette, but directly from the drawing. This is important when you want to ensure color consistency across different areas Images. After selecting the tool, point the pointer over the area of ​​the picture with the desired color and click the mouse button. Clicking the left button sets the current color as the foreground color, and clicking the right button sets the current color as the background color.

Color palette contains a small set different colors for selection, as well as a special window on the left with two overlaid squares. The top square corresponds foreground color, the bottom square defines background color. Paint allows you to use your choice of foreground and background colors in most operations. If the operation is performed using the left mouse button, the foreground color is applied. When you use the right button, the background color is applied. This applies to free-drawing, straight and curved line, and fill operations. Inst rument Eraser always fills the area being cleared with the background color. Standard geometric figures are also filled with the background color. To select a color as a foreground color, left-click on it in the palette. Right-clicking selects this color as the background color.

If the required color is not in the palette, double-click on any color in the palette or give the command Palette, Change palette. Dialog window Changing the palette allows you to create any color.

In the command dialog Drawing, Attributes You can designate one color (for example, white) to be used as "transparent". Color transparency means that if a given image is displayed on top of another image (background), then the lower image will be visible through the upper one at those points that have a color designated “transparent”. The transparency property is saved in the picture file only when the .GIF graphic format is selected when saving. Drawings with a transparent background are widely used to create web pages and in electronic publications.

Scale of the drawing. To set the size of the picture, use the command View, Scale. This command opens a dialog box in which you can select the dimensions of the picture, set the units of measurement (pixels for preparing screen images, inches or centimeters for printed documents) and select a palette (black and white or color). To change the scale use the command View, Scale and tool Scale.

Work with text. Use the tool to enter text into a drawing. Text. Clicking on the picture opens a text entry field. The size of the input field is changed by dragging the input area markers - small rectangular nodes located on the sides and corners of the input area. Setting the font shape, its style and size is set using the text attributes panel by command Text, Text input tools. Small text should be avoided.

Image Transformation– automatic change of shape, location and size of graphic objects. Team Home, Flip/Rotate calls up a dialog box containing controls for symmetrically displaying a picture relative to the vertical or horizontal axis of symmetry, as well as for rotating it by a fixed angle, a multiple of 90°. Team Home, Stretch/Tilt Calls up a dialog box to stretch the drawing horizontally and vertically, tilt it relative to the horizontal or vertical axis. The stretch parameters are specified in percentages, and the tilt parameters are specified in angular degrees.

Team Home, Invert colors acts like a switch. The color of each pixel in the image changes to a color that is its complement to white.

Working with objects. To copy a fragment of a picture, select the fragment using the tools Selection And Selecting an arbitrary area. You can then copy or move the object by dragging it. If you hold down the key while dragging Ctrl, The object is copied. When a key is pressed Shift the dragged fragment leaves behind a “trace”, which allows you to create ornaments, borders and other effects.

In the window below the toolbar you can select object combination mode. It defines the behavior of the object's background color. In one case the background color is preserved, and in the other it is treated as "transparent". When constructing a picture from several objects, the second option is preferable.

To create a finished drawing using the montage method, it is convenient to open two Paint windows at once. The final drawing is created in one window, and the other is used to prepare objects to be superimposed on each other. After drawing the desired object in one window and selecting it, use the command Edit, Copy. Run the command in another window Edit, Paste. When you paste it into another picture, the object remains selected and you can drag it to the desired location.

Graphic editor Paint is Windows application, designed for creating simple pictures. Children love to draw in Paint, and it becomes the first program for creating graphics with which to start serious acquaintance with graphics programs.

Paint is included in the package of standard programs, so before turning your attention to expensive professional graphics programs You should think carefully - the capabilities of this application may be sufficient. After all, it can be quite difficult for a person who is not involved in creating graphics on a daily basis to master these programs.

The interface of the Paint graphic editor is as simple as it is and the toolbar also consists of two tabs: “Home” and “View”. Also, the tools in the “Home” tab are intended for creating and editing objects, only they are needed here for creating drawings, not texts. The “View” tab is intended for displaying the picture and scaling it.

Below the toolbar there is a “canvas” for drawing, which can be stretched to different sides and squeeze. Among the tools here there is a pencil, but using it does not bring much joy, since the lines do not turn out straight and even, because you have to draw with the mouse. Although some people may like this tool.

The Color Fill tool allows you to fill entire areas of a drawing that are bounded by lines with a selected color. You just need to select it, hover the cursor over the desired area and click on the left mouse button. And the area of ​​the drawing we have chosen will immediately be filled with an even color. To use a particular tool, you need to click on its image on the toolbar with the left mouse button.

To insert an inscription into a drawing, there is the “Insert Text” tool, indicated by the capital letter A. After selecting this tool and specifying the area of ​​the drawing where you want to insert the inscription, the additional “Text Input Tools” panel is automatically turned on. In which you can choose the type of font, its size and color, and whether letters are bold or italic. The ability to choose a transparent background for the inscription makes the drawings more beautiful.

The Tools, Eraser, and Magnifier perform the same functions as their real-life counterparts. But the “Palette” tool in the form of an eyedropper is designed to select the color of a picture or background. The color palette is also located in the “Home” tab. In this case, you can either select colors from those suggested by the palette or select new ones by clicking on “Change colors”. Here you can adjust the brightness of colors and shades.

The inability to draw a straight and even line on a sheet of paper does not mean that the same will happen in the Paint graphic editor, since any line or simple figure can be drawn by drawing a section of the figure. Squares, ovals, triangles, polygons, arrows and other shapes can be easily used to create simple drawings.

Another interesting tool is brushes, with which you can choose a brush, pen, spray paint, marker, pencil and more. Many people think that it is easier to draw not on album sheet, and in an ordinary student notebook, lined vertically and horizontal lines. And this can be done in Paint; the disabling “Ruler” and “Grid” tools, which are located in the “View” tab, will help here.

Thus, the Paint graphic editor, despite its simplicity and standardness, can help us create simple color pictures. And in many cases it replaces expensive and complex professional programs for graphics.

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Graphic editor Paint

The Paint graphic editor allows you to create simple color and black and white drawings, as well as perform some image processing operations. Compared with previous versions Windows, which also included Paint, his appearance changed a lot. In Fig. Figure 1 shows the view of the Paint graphic editor window.

Rice. 1.Paint window view

To launch it, you need to enter the Main Menu, find the Standard folder and click on Paint in it.

There is a Paint icon at the top of the window

Next to it is a button to save the image to a file.

The moment you click on this button, Current state the pictures will be written to the file. If you finish drawing something else, and at this time the computer's power turns off, all changes after last entry will disappear into the file. For this reason, do not forget to periodically click on the save button, even if you have not yet completed the drawing. When you first click on this button, Paint does not yet know in which folder and with what name you should save your drawing. For this reason, a standard file saving window will open, shown in Fig. 2.

Rice. 2.Standard file saving window

Find the folder in which you want to save the file with the picture, enter in the File name field the name you created for the file (instead of the default name Nameless), Select the format in which the image will be stored from the File type drop-down list, then click the Save button.

When you subsequently save changes to the image by clicking the button

the standard file saving window will not appear, since Paint already knows which file to save the image into.

Following the save button there are two buttons responsible for undoing and repeating actions -

What are we talking about? The fact is that in many programs, your last few actions can be undone. For example, you drew beautiful image, and then added a detail that looks completely unnecessary. What to do? Redraw everything again?

For such cases, there is a cancel button.

Click on it with the mouse, and the last change you made will disappear as if it never happened. But what to do if you suddenly decide that you got carried away and canceled in vain? last changes? The redo button will help you

Click on it with the mouse and the undone changes will reappear.

Below the window title is the ribbon area. What is this? The ribbon is a strip made in the form of tabs with buttons and other control elements on them. At the top you can see tab shortcuts (Home, View), by clicking on which you can switch from one tab to another. The Home tab is initially visible. But you can click on the name of another tab, View, and you will see its elements. And then you can return to the Home tab again by clicking on the word Home.

At the bottom of the window there is a status bar. It displays various auxiliary information. To the right of the icon

shows the location of the mouse pointer in the picture. It is shown in dots, starting from the upper left corner of the image. The horizontal coordinate is shown first, and then the vertical coordinate. To the right of the icon

displayed overall size Images.

There is a scale in the lower right corner of the Paint window.

It is used to change the image scale. The current scale value itself is shown to the left of this scale. By default it is set to 100%. To change the scale, you can either drag the slider with the mouse

left (decrease) or right (increase), or click on the round buttons with the mouse — (decrease) and + (increase). What does "drag and drop" mean? This means that you need to move the mouse pointer over the slider, press the left mouse button and, without releasing it, move the mouse in the desired direction. When you move the slider to desired value, release the mouse button.

It must be noted that, changing the scale, You do not resize the image. It only seems to approach you or move away from you. Usually they change the scale when they want to examine or edit some small detail. We all beat around the bush, but how do we start drawing? The tool is immediately enabled by default Pencil . You can draw with your mouse the same way you would draw on a piece of paper with a pencil. To draw a line, place your mouse pointer

to the right place white sheet in the central part of the Paint window, press the left mouse button and, without releasing it, move the mouse pointer where the line should go. Of course, you can choose the line color. To do this, there is a color palette on the right side of the Home tab. By left-clicking on the corresponding colored square, you can select the current line color. If the set of colors in the palette does not suit you, you can click on the button Changing colors and in the dialog box that opens, add a color from a wider range to the palette.

In addition to color, we can also change the line thickness. To do this, click on the Size button. A list with example lines will open. Click on the desired sample.

You can set not only the width of the line, but also the way it is drawn. To do this, click on the Brushes button (on the word itself). A list of brush types will open (Fig. 3).

Rice. 3.Types of brushes

The pictures show the principle of operation of each brush, but it’s better to experiment on your own.

You can not only draw lines by hand, but also use ready-made shapes. To do this, click on the Shapes button. This will display a list of available shapes (Fig. 4).

Rice. 4.List of available shapes

Let's look at some figures.

Line - draws a straight segment. To do this, place the mouse pointer at the place where the line should begin, press the left mouse button and move the mouse pointer to the place where the line should end, then release the mouse button. You can choose the line thickness as we discussed earlier. Drawing a line while holding down the Shift key creates vertical, horizontal, or 45° angled lines. Drawing with the right mouse button colors the line with the background color.

Curve - designed for drawing curves with smooth bends. Drawing is done as follows:

A straight line is drawn.

An inflection point is selected on the straight line and “dragged” to the side. The straight line turns into a curve passing through the inflection point from the starting point to the ending point.

Another inflection point on the curve is selected and “dragged” to the side. The curve bends again.

Rectangle - draws a rectangle. To do this, place the mouse pointer in the place where the upper left corner of the rectangle should be, press the left mouse button and move the mouse pointer to the place where the lower right corner of the rectangle should be, then release the mouse button. The rectangle is painted in accordance with the selected scheme:

Outline only;

Outline and background;

Only background.

Drawing a shape while holding down the Shift key results in a square appearing.

Polygon - used to draw a sequence of line segments in which the beginning of the next segment is at the end of the previous one, and the end of the last one falls at the beginning of the first. This sequence forms a polygon, which, upon completion of construction, is painted over as a rectangle.

Ellipse - draws an ellipse. To draw, imagine that the future ellipse will be inscribed in a rectangle. Next, proceed as described for the Rectangle tool. Drawing a shape while holding down the Shift key results in a circle appearing.

Rounded rectangle- draws a rectangle with rounded corners.

Additional shapes can be seen by clicking on the button

In addition to the tools we mentioned, there are others. For example, you can fill limited area drawing in the selected color.

Fill - paints a closed area with the line color when working with the left mouse button and the background color when working with the right mouse button. If the area is not closed, then all areas up to the closed boundary will be painted. If you see unexpected coloring of another area, cancel the action using the button

and find the boundary break. Zooming in (the scale in the lower right corner of the Paint window) can help with this.

If you need to erase some of the lines, you can use the Eraser tool.

Eraser - erases objects in the path of the mouse pointer, filling the trace with the current background color. The width of the trace is determined by the selection in the Size drop-down list. When working with the right mouse button, the eraser will replace the background color with the color of only those points for which it coincides with the current line color.

In addition to lines and shapes, the image can be decorated with text. To do this, click on the button

After selecting this tool, click the mouse in the place on the sheet where you want to place the text. A rectangular fragment will appear, defining the area where the text will be placed.

This will open the text attributes panel (Font), in which you can select the font, size and style (change the boldness, italic and underline).

Once you've set your text attributes, click inside your selection and type your text. As long as the text area selection frame exists, you can make any changes to the text: choose a different color, position, size, style and font.

Clicking outside the selection turns the text into part of the drawing.

In addition to choosing a color to draw from the palette, you can specify the desired color directly on the drawing. To do this, click on the button

and then move the mouse pointer to the element of the picture whose color you want to make the current color and left-click.

You can do some work on areas of the image. useful actions. To do this, the fragment must first be selected. To select a rectangular fragment of the image, click on the button

In the menu that appears, click on the item Select, and in the submenu that opens, click Rectangular area. Then position the mouse pointer where you want the top left corner of the selection to be, press the left mouse button and move the mouse pointer to where you want the bottom right corner of the selection to be, then release the mouse button. In this case, a dotted frame appears, in the corners of which and in the middle of each side there are squares that allow you to change the size of the selection in the same way as resizing a window (by dragging the squares).

The selected fragment can be dragged to another place in the picture. In this case, the previous location of the fragment is filled with the background color. If you drag while pressing the Ctrl key on the keyboard, a copy of the fragment is created.

The selected fragment can be placed in the Clipboard using buttons, a list of which appears when you click on the Clipboard button (Fig. 5).

Rice. 5.Buttons for working with the Clipboard

Cut - moves the selected fragment of the picture to the Clipboard.

Copy - creates a copy of the selected fragment of the picture in the Clipboard.

Paste - inserts a fragment located in the Clipboard into the picture. The fragment appears in the drawing as if on top of it and must be moved to the right place.

A fragment pasted from the Clipboard appears in the upper left corner of the picture and remains selected, which allows you to drag it to the desired place in the picture.

Clicking outside the selection deselects it.

We mentioned Clipboard. What is this? This is a “pocket” in Windows where you can temporarily put part of an image or text. This "pocket" is common to all applications.

This way, you can put something in the Clipboard in one application and retrieve it in another. For example, you can put a fragment of an image that you drew in Paint on the Clipboard, and remove this fragment from the Clipboard when working with a word processor Microsoft Word(we'll talk about it later) and place it as an illustration to the text.

So, we can select a fragment. What additional actions can we do with it? For example, you can rotate a fragment by a certain angle. To do this, click on the Image button. From the menu that appears, select Rotate. A submenu will open where you can choose exactly how to rotate the selected fragment.

For more accurate and convenient creation some images can be included additional elements Paint windows. To do this, go to the View tab. There are check boxes for Rulers and Grid Lines. When you enable the Rulers checkbox, horizontal and vertical rulers appear, along which you can precisely position the mouse pointer.

Turning on grid lines will help you draw fine designs. To do this, it is convenient to turn on the Grid lines checkbox and zoom in on the drawing using the scale in the lower right corner of the Paint window.

We've dealt with various instruments to create an image. We also know how to save a drawn picture in a file. But how can you open a previously saved image?

To open a file with a picture, click on the button

located to the left of the Home tab shortcut. This will open a menu. Select Open from this menu. A standard file opening window will appear, familiar to you from the section where we discussed setting background images for the Desktop. Find the folder where the file with your drawing is located, click on the file name, and then click on the Open button.

If you need to start the drawing again with clean slate, click on the button

and in the menu that appears, select Create.

and the fact that the next time you click on this button, the file saving window will no longer appear, but what if you needed to save the image with some changes in a file with a different name? To do this, click on the button

and in the menu that appears, select Save As. The standard save file window will appear again, where you can specify a different name for the image file.

The commands responsible for setting up image printing are collected in a submenu that appears when you click on the button

and selecting Print (Fig. 6).

Rice. 6.Commands for Printing an Image

When choosing a team Page settings A dialog box appears where you can adjust print settings such as the size of the paper used, its orientation, and the margins from the edges of the sheet to the drawing. When you select portrait orientation, the sheet is positioned vertically, and when you select landscape orientation, it is horizontal.

The Centering group checkboxes allow you to automatically align the image to the center of the sheet.

When all parameters are set, click the OK button.

Before printing a drawing on a printer, you can see on the screen how it will look on a sheet of paper. To do this, click on the button

and select Print, and in the submenu that appears, the command Preview. Your drawing will be displayed in the main part of the window as it will then be printed.

You can zoom in or out by clicking on the buttons

When to exit mode preview, click the Close preview window button.

When you decide to print the image on the printer, click on the button

in the menu that appears, select Print, and in the submenu that opens, select Print. A window similar to the one shown in Fig. will open. 7.

Rice. 7.Print pattern window

On the list Select a printer you need to click on the name of the printer on which you want to print your picture.

In Group Page range You can choose which pages to print if your image is too large to fit on one sheet. If you want to print not the entire image, but only part of it, you must first select a fragment and select Select in the print window.

To start the printing process, click on the Print button.

To finish working with the Paint graphic editor, you need to click on the standard window close button

If at this point you have not saved the changes you made to the image since the last save, a window will appear asking you to save. If you need to save the last state of the picture, click the Save button; If you don’t need to save the changes, click the Don’t save button. If you decide to return to editing the image, click the Cancel button.