Chapter-4: (Fun with Paint : How to open paint, Using Free From Select Tool, Drawing with pencil and curve, Moving an object, Using copy, Paste options of Edit Menu.)

Print Screen to Paint to Word


Step 1 - Open Paint. Click on the Start button (bottom left corner of your screen), slide up to Programs, then slide up to Accessories, and finally slide over and down to Paint .

Step 2 - Paste the image of your screen in the Paint window by holding down the Ctrl key and then tapping one time on the V key. Yes, you can go to the Edit menu to select paste, but which Edit menu? If you have been following directions you will see two Edit menus in the top left part of your screen. One, the lower one, is only a picture of an Edit menu.
Step 3 - Use the Paint Tools to Edit the Image. The buttons are identified below:
Freeform Select Color Picker Airbrush Rectangle
Select
Magnifier
Text
Freeform
Eraser
Pencil
Line
Ellipse
Fill with Color
Paint Brush
Curve
Rounded Rectangle
Some of the buttons have qualifiers which may be chosen after the tool button is selected
Use with Select, Freeform Select, and Text
When you select a part of an image to move to another location, or text to put on the image, the background of the selected image will be opaque
Use with Line and Curve
Change the thickness of the line
Use with Brush
Determine the shape and size of the paint brush
Use with Select, Freeform Select, and Text
When you select a part of an image to move to another location, or text to put on the image, the background of the selected image will be transparent
Use with Rectangle, Freeform, Ellipse and Rounded Rectangle
The top rectangle draws a shape whose inside will be transparent. The middle rectangle draws a shape whose inside will be opaque. The bottom rectangle draws a shape filled with the selected color
Use with Airbrush
Determine the size of the airbrush spray
Use with Eraser
Change the size of the eraser. If you need to erase a single pixel, use the pencil with background color
Use with Magnifier
Set the amount of magnification to be used


Step 4 - As an example of the process, this module will overlay two images from the Tennessee Department of Education . Go to the page and scroll to the bottom so that you can see the Great Seal of the State of Tennessee and a blue rectangle labeled Tennessee facts. When you have done that, find the Print Screen button and press it one time.
Step 5 - Open Paint and paste what you stored in the clipboard into the Paint screen. Some versions of paint will expand with the image, others will display a Paint dialog box with the message "The image in the clipboard is larger than the bitmap. Would you like the bitmap enlarged?" The answer to that is Yes.
Step 6 - You may have to scroll down in the Paint window to see both the Great Seal and the Tennessee facts button. To make more working space select parts of the image that you will not be using and press the delete key. The select button may look as if it is already selected, but you must click on it to use the tool to highlight a part of the image.
Step 7 - After you have cleared some working space in the middle of the screen, use the Select tool to draw a box around the blue Tennessee Facts button. Put your cursor in the middle of the boxed-in image, then click and drag the button into the middle of the white pace.
Step 8 - If the Select tool button is still selected, choose the button that makes the background transparent. Draw a box around the Great Seal and move it so that it covers the top right corner of the Tennessee Facts button. Don't let go of the image until you have it exactly where you want it. If you drop the image some place that do not want it, go to the Edit menu and select Undo, and then try it again.
Step 9 - Use the Select tool button to draw a box around the new image you created, and then copy the image.