Special Edition Using Windows 95 with Internet Explorer 4.0

Using Windows Paint

Paint is simple and easy to use, but it also may be as powerful a graphics application as you will ever need. You can use your creations in other Windows applications, such as WordPad or Word for Windows.

Here are some of the graphic effects you can create with Paint:

• Lines in many widths, shades, and colors

• Brush strokes in a variety of styles, widths, shades, and colors

• Unfilled or filled shapes with shades or colors

• Text in many sizes, styles, and colors

• Special effects such as rotating, tilting, and inverting

Because Paint is a bitmap graphics application, the shapes you create are painted on screen in one layer. Although you can't layer objects, you can move, flip, and tilt them. You also can change the color of your painting, ...