Paint a Pretty Picture

Paint provides many colorful drawing tools. Before you can use Paint effectively, you must learn how to interact with Paint, and you also must know what each of Paint's tools does. Start Paint by selecting the Start menu's Programs, Accessories, Paint option. The Paint screen contains six major areas, listed in Figure 10.6. Table 10.1 describes each area.

Figure 10.6. The six major areas of the Paint screen enable you to create and edit your graphics images.