Talk:Microsoft Paint

Resizing Jack

I have the damned thing set to "200px" but it's still so huge! WTF?! --NLUT

I think Microsoft should bundle GIMP with Windows.

Paint.NET is much better and will come on Longhorn. Mateusc 19:05, 14 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Shouldn't we mention the Z-Soft heritage somewhere. I'm quite sure the original Paintbrush for Windows was developed by them. They were previously producing PC Paintbrush, a drawing program for DOS. R4p70r 02:48, 12 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Maybe yes, and I guess it has something to do with the .PCX format not longer being supported by Paint since the days it was still called Paintbrush, as PCX is a Z-Soft proprietary format, essentially an RLE-encoded bitmap format EpiVictor 07:07, 18 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I discovered something

In the magnafying option, click on 8x. Then if you click below it like one pixel more, you can magnify 10x.

Can we put that in this article?--198.147.225.76 00:20, 18 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Whoa yes! I didn't knew that! Put it there, man! ☢ Ҡieff | Talk 01:48, 18 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Alright but under what? It's obviously not a feature.--TKGB 00:53, 25 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Cool! Put it there! --seifip 18:12, 10 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Now if only you could figure out how to get 4x in the dropdown instead of having to up and pick "large size"...

Where is this 8x option? I only have view > zoom > custom > 100%, 200%, 400%, 600%, 800% and they're radio buttons. What version are you talking about?

First sign your comments(with '~~~~'). Second, click on the magnifying glass in the sidebar. BioTube 02:37, 31 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

You have to click the magnifying glass. 71.131.176.42 01:41, 3 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

The SHIFT key

This article mentions the SHIFT key to be used for the "Trail Mode" in the selection of the image but the SHIFT key has other functions:

Select a shape tool (circle, rectangle, and Ellipse) and hold down shift to make a perfect shape.
Select the line or curve and hold down shift to make a perfect line (though the curve will still be free to move around)
Select pencil and hold down shift the draw a perfect line, though unlike the line, only one axis is available and you cannot shrink it once you draw it.

I'll add them to the article later but I'd have to clean it up first. --TKGB 00:59, 25 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

New version?

Does the new Windows Vista will have a new version of Paint? MarioV 21:17, 20 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

 –Yes, it is slightly upgraded visually.

Is it possible to get hold of Paintbrush on WinXP, and use alongside MS Paint?

I miss the color replace tool, that was removed from the new version.

Huh? Not it wasn't. The color replace tool is just the eraser used with the right mouse button. ☢ Ҡieff⌇↯

It is possible, I tried to copy the win 3.1 files from the old computer to a directory on the new one, and it just worked :-) However, it is not without side effects: e.g. now the "normal" MS-Paint is unable to open files from the "open with..." menu. The only way this can be useful, is if you want to open .MSP or .PCX files (I remember on a real win 3.1 system, it could also open RLE and WMF) EpiVictor 15:13, 30 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Bigger pencil tip?

A friend of mine dropped his keyboard and said that now his pencil tool was making two-pixel wide marks instead of the regular one. Has this happened to anyone? To cure it, I just recommended he save, close, and reopen, and that fixed it, but I am still curious.

CTRL + "+" and CTRL + "-", from the number pad at the right of the keyboard, can be used to change width of the line, but this bugs the undo feature so I don't recommend it ☢ Ҡi∊ff⌇↯ 16:33, 29 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Actually, it isn't bugged up. The undo function for the pencil tool was built so that when you undo, a rectangular marquee is automatically put around the original 1-px line and that area is deleted, hence if you do the Control + "+" there may be areas outside the 1-px line, and those won't get deleted, it's not really a bug. -cyber

How's that not a bug? ☢ Ҡi∊ff⌇↯ 19:23, 19 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

paint for drawings

does anybody else use this as their primary source of image creation?

i put a bunch my drawings on photobucket[[1]], and i would like to see any one elses drawings...to take tips from.

Nope, I use IRL tools like pencils, colors, paint and brushes... Shandris^the ^azylean 18:21, 12 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Trail mode w/ shift key

The way "trail mode" is described in this article is incorrect:

For the stamp mode, the user can select part of the image, hold the control key, and move it to another part of the canvas. This, instead of cutting the piece out, creates a copy of it. The process can be repeated as many times as desired, as long as the control key is held down. The trail mode works exactly the same, but it uses the shift key instead of the control key.

Trail mode doesn't work in the same way as stamp mode- it creates a trail of copies, not just one. I think this should be reworded.

Stamp mode a "hidden function"? Why?

Why does the article say that stamp mode is a hidden function not mentioned in the help file? I quote from the Windows XP Paint help file, under the heading "Work with Pictures", subheading "Copy or paste part of a picture": "You can paste multiple copies of an object by holding down CTRL while you drag the object to a new location. Repeat as needed." Sure, it doesn't call it "stamp mode", but it certainly does document the feature. Right? --WillNL 22:54, 6 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- Corrected. --seifip 10:55, 12 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

SVG images

Is Paint really capable of opening SVG images if SVG Reader is installed? Is this maybe a Vista thing? I can't get this to work on XP. _{J Di}^talk 12:35, 2 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Much of the introduction actually, implies that just by installing certain plugins/filters, MS-Paint can somehow automatically support more image formats. However, I have no idea to what extent this is true, and under which versions. From my experience: older (Win 3.1 and previous) versions "natively" support only BMP, PCX and MSP formats. Later versions have built in support for GIF and maybe JPEG (Windows 95 and beyond?), Windows XP and NT versions surely support the PNG format too (without objects and layers, just as a flat bitmap), and some other weird format may or may not appear depending on system settings, e.g. WMF, RLE etc. The PCX and MSP formats appear definitively dropped, however. EpiVictor 11:17, 4 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Paint.NET

I removed the link to Paint.NET, as it has no association with Microsoft Paint apart from happening to have a similar name. Jibjibjib 01:33, 31 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Third colour

You can have 3 colours to paint with. Simply Ctrl + click a colour on the pallet to choose your third colour. Hold down ctrl while painting to paint with your "third colour" 124.178.71.202 13:55, 4 November 2006 (UTC) dude, thats cool![reply]

Paint's UI in Windows Vista

Is Paint changes the interface for Windows Vista from Windows XP? — Jigs41793 ^Talk 13:25, 29 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Image

How does my image cause many potential violations? Soxrock 18:45, 5 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Your image Image:1-1-2007.jpg had several different team logos. You can't really use logos like that here on Wikipedia, since most of them are considered fair use and their usage is very restricted (usually, they're only allowed on their respective articles.)

Besides, your image was just a simple montage. It had nothing to add to this article. — Kieff 19:19, 5 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Ok, I had the image on the article because it was supposed to show completed work on Paint. But I do see about the logos, and how they may be inappropriate and not fair use. My bad Soxrock 20:08, 5 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Infobox Image

Image:Vista Paint.png
Image:Paint Vista.png

Which of the two images to the right do you prefer? I recently uploaded the first picture to go on Features new to Windows Vista; it was removed/orphaned recently. I then put it on Paint (software) because I honestly feel it is a better image, and it was reverted by the same user. Which of these do you, the other editors of this article, think does a better job of illustrating the program and its interface? In my opinion, the one I uploaded makes a better thumbnail because it focuses on the UI and has less "dead space." Opinions? —Disavian (^talk/_contribs) 03:32, 31 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The new image is inconsistent with other screenshots of Windows Vista due to the wallpaper in the background; therefore, the old image is preferred. Themodernizer 23:28, 1 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Can you cite a policy to this effect? —Disavian (^talk/_contribs) 01:59, 2 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

It is also notable that the new screenshot is from a pre-release version of Vista, whereas the old screenshot is from the released version. Themodernizer 22:00, 2 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I certainly can't tell a difference. It looks the same to me. LaMenta3 22:31, 2 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The menu and title bar styles are slightly different. Themodernizer 00:55, 3 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Picture

No need to use Windows Vista Paint as the first image. It's already on the page under "Versions". Replay7 18:42, 20 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Stop promoting your image. You already violated the Three Revert Rule you are already aware of, a report has been filed. This edit contradicts your claims. — Kieff | Talk 21:28, 25 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Well fine, if you hate me that much. Replay7 21:38, 25 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I've deleted the "drawing" - a bunch of random scrawls - as patent nonsense. Sandstein 21:40, 25 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. — Kieff | Talk 21:43, 25 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Please, bring it back. Just long enough for me to save it back to my computer. Replay7 21:42, 25 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

If paint.exe was deleted...

Is it possible to download it off the net? I know it's possible for windows 95, but I haven't been able to find anything for XP...