Painting Tools

A paint program is a program which edits bitmapped images. These bitmap images are composed of individual pixels.

There are many programs which are available to use on paint. These are the tools and a description of what they do:

Free form select: This tool allows you to choose a specific part of your painting, this part can be of any shape and you can select around the specific parts. Then you can copy or paste the object .

Select:The select tool allows you to select an object. When you select this object you are able to copy, paste,rotate, flip etc.

Eraser: The Eraser tool allows you to erase any unwanted parts of your artwork.When you erase you are able to choose the colour of the eraser this is convenient because if you have a coloured background and erase with the original white eraser the colour which will appear is the original white of the original background. You can do this by pressing right click on your mouse to one of the colours.

Fill: The fill tool fills the colour of your drawn inclosed object to any colour of your choice.

Pick Colour: The pick colour tool allows you you to get the exact coulour you want by selecting it the colour you desire to paint with.

Magnifier: This tool allows you to magnify the page so that you have a close view of what you are drawing to get an accurate drawing or colour on you object.

Pencil: This tool allows you to draw or write with a free hand format. You can use this tool to draw objects or lines that are not available as a tool on Paint Program.

Brush: Allows you you to paint the colour onto the canvas just as pencil tool provides but it allows you to choose the brush style and it is a darker colour.

Air Brush: This tool allows you to Spray the paint colour onto the canvas and you can choose the co thickness of the spray and size.

Text: The text tool allows you to write text and you can choose the font, size and the style.

Line: This tool allows you to draw a straight line whether it be vertical, horizontal or diagnal.

Curve: This tool allows you to draw lines as smooth curvy lines.

Rectangle: This tool allows to draw the shape of rectangles of all shapes and sizes. To make the side in propotion you can press the button shift.

Polygon: This tool allows you to draw any two dimensional shapes and if you want a realistic shape you can make the degrees and angles in proportion by pressing shift.

Ellipse: This tool allows you to draw ellipses and circles and you can ajust the size and shape to you desire. You can make the ellipse into proportion by pressing shift on your key board.

Rounded rectangles: This tool allows you to draw rectangles but instead of the perpendicular pointy edge they are curved out smooth edges hence the the name rounded rectangle.