LESSON
01 – PAINT BASICS
COPY AND PASTING
You
can right click on an image in any browser, copy it and then paste it in a
graphic editing program such as Paint, Paint.NET or Photoshop.
SELECTIONS
All
graphic editing programs allow you to select a part of an image. The selection is usually shown inside of dash
lines.
Paint
offers two different selection tools, a rectangular tool and a star tool that
allows you to decide on an exact selection.
Making
precise selections is an important part of graphic editing.
Selections
can be moved around or can be copied and pasted. In fact, you can even copy a selection from
one image into another.
SHORTCUT KEYS
Here
are shortcut keys that will help you work more efficiently:
·
CTRL-C
= Copy
·
CTRL-X
= Cut
·
CTRL-V
= Paste
·
CTRL-A
= Select All
·
CTRL-Z
= Undo
Note:
In Paint, you have a very limited number of undo options. Keep that in mind!
COLOURS
Most
graphics programs have two active colours.
One is known at the primary colour and the other is known as the secondary
(or background) colour. The image below
is a capture from Paint where the primary colour is black and the secondary
colour is red.
When
using a tool, left clicking will make use of the primary colour while right
clicking will use the secondary colour.
TRANSPARENCY & DRAW
OPAQUE
Paint
does not support true transparency for images.
So, you cannot save an image with transparent part in it.
However,
for selections, Paint can make one colour transparent. If Image > Draw Opaque is unchecked, then
the secondary colour in paint will be transparent.
For
now, you should know the name of the more common image formats that we will
work with. You should use PNG files for
now until we learn more about other formats.
JPG
– Great compression. But leaves bad
artifacts!
GIF
– Great compression. But limited to 256
colours.
BMP
– Perfect storage but no compression, so huge files! Boo!
PNG
– Solid compression. Perfect
storage! USE ME!!!
The
Print Screen key is located near the top right of your keyboard. When hit, it automatically captures the
entire screen into memory. You can then
paste that into a graphic editor such as Paint or Photoshop.
OTHER
INFO ABOUT PAINT
Here is a list of different facts
about Paint that might be useful:
USEFUL FACTS ABOUT PAINT
LESS USEFUL FACTS ABOUT PAINT
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