Collection of free software downloads, free game downloads and desktop stuff for Windows. CNET Download Find the latest free software, apps, downloads, and reviews for Windows, Mac, iOS, and Android. Using Paint in Windows 7. These instructions are for MSPaint in Windows 7. Db Technologies Opera 415 Manual on this page. This is a typical view of the top of the Paint window. Windows 98 Paint Games' title='Windows 98 Paint Games' />At the very top is the Title Bar, just as in all programs, below it is a very simple Menu Bar and below that is the Ribbon. At the left end of the Title Bar the first item shows a little paint palette. If clicked, this button opens a standard window menu, offering Restore, Move, Size, Minimise, Maximise and Close. You are unlikely to want to use this menu, since all of those things can be done in quicker ways. The next four items make up the, offering buttons for Save, Undo, Redo and Customise. If youd prefer to have Save, Undo and Redo below the ribbon, move your cursor over the left end of the title bar until the Customise icon lights up. Click and a menu will appear. Near the bottom of the menu that appears, youll see Show below the Ribbon. Windows-Vista/0008-005-Windows-Vista.jpg' alt='Windows 98 Paint Games' title='Windows 98 Paint Games' />Click Show below the Ribbon. Youll also see other commands that you can add if you wish. Ive chosen to add Newfor a new Paint page, Opento open a previously saved and closed picture, and Print Preview. You can click any of these item a second time to undo changes youve made to the Quick Access Toolbar. Many other items can be added to the Quick Access Toolbar. On the Ribbon, right click on anything youd like to add to the Quick Access Toolbar and a menu will appear. This includes things offered in sub menus. Ive added the Pencil tool and Paste Transparent. To remove items youve added from the Ribbon, right click the unwanted icon and then click the Remove option. Other things on the Title Bar. After the Quick Access items, youll see the title of your picture followed by the name of the programPaint, of course. I/51Nm46PSfBL.jpg' alt='Windows 98 Paint Games' title='Windows 98 Paint Games' />If you havent yet saved your picture, the name will be shown as Untitled. At the right hand end of the Title Bar are the three usual window buttons, Minimise, Maximise and Close. If your Paint Window is already maximisedtaking up all of your screenthe middle button will be Restore, which makes the window the size you usually have it. The Menu bar has three items on the left and a Help button at the far right. Nokia C2 00 Opera Mini. First on the left is the Paint Button, which opens a very comprehensive menu, similar to that shown here, plus a list of pictures youve recently saved. Most items are self explanatory, but oneSave as is very important if you ever want to save a cutout without losing the rest of your picture. You might like to take a quick look at some of the other items and investigate their uses as well. The Properties dialogue, for instance, will give you information about the picture on which youre currently working, and let you nominate whether you want to work in centimetres, inches or pixels. So far, I havent managed to make any of these measurements agree in a printed picture, but this may well be due to my lack of experience. Theres an option that helps you to set your current picture as your desktop background. You can change this as often as you like. For nearly everything you do, youll want the Home tab to be at the front. The Home tab contains the Ribbon, from which tools and colors are selected. When youre making use of the View tab, you can flick back and forth between Home and View as often as you need to. Zooming in and out is one of the features that Paint in Windows 7 has improved out of sight Click on the View tab to bring it to the front and youll find a whole set of useful options available. These can be used alone or in conjunction with the Zoom Tool on the Ribbon or the slider on the Status Bar. Zoom in and Zoom out tools can be clicked repeatedly to get a closer or more distant view. The 1. 00 option is handy when youve finished working in a very zoomed in view. One click and youre back to normal. On the Show or Hide part of this tab, you have the option of hiding the status bar. I wouldnt advise you to do that. The status bar can be useful. Rulers If you like. Turn them on and see what you think. On the section, you can click for Full Screen View. You can also get a Full Screen View by hitting F1. In either case, come back to a normal view by pressing the Esc key. It lets you see how changes you make are affecting your picture in normal view. So far, Im finding that the thumbnail cannot always show work on the far right or the bottom of the page. You can flick back and forth between the Home tab and the View tab as often as you like. All the tools, the color palette, and most commands are grouped together in the ribbon. The exceptions are Save, Undo and Redo, which are shown at the left end of the title bar, in the Quick Access Toolbar. If you choose to use a very small window, the ribbon will appear like this. Drop down arrows below each item will give you access to everything in their menus. If, however, you use a very large window, you will have many more menu items on display. There is also an option to minimise the ribbon. If you choose this, the ribbon disappears entirely, but pops into view if you click on the Home tab. The clipboard menu offers three optionsCut, Copy and Paste. Only when a selection is active will the Cut and Copy icons show as being ready. Paste is always active, because you may wish to a picture on your computer. Say youve previously drawn and saved a small flower and now wish to add it to your present drawing. Youd click the down arrow under Paste, click Paste from and navigate to the saved picture, click its name and click Open. Youd be returned to your work space and see the added picture inside a selection rectangle, ready for you to drag to its permanent position. Select Depending on the size of your window, the Image Menu will look like one of these. When you click the down arrow just below the dotted rectangle, or just below the word Image, a menu will offer you further choices. Before you can use the buttons on the right of this menu, you select the part of your drawing that you want to work with. At the bottom of the Select menu youll see Transparent selection. Youll want to use this often, so its a good idea to add it to your Quick Access toolbar. To do this, right click on Transparent selection and then click on Add to Quick Access toolbar. On your Quick Access Toolbar, therell be a checkbox in front of the words Transparent selection. While that box has a tick in it, selections will be transparent. To make your selections opaque, just click the checkbox to remove the tick. Usually youll make a rectangular selection. After clicking the rectangular selection tool, position the cross hair cursor at the top left of the part you want to select, press your mouse button and drag down to its bottom right. Actually, you can start at any corner, so long as you finish at the corner diagonally opposite. A dashed rectangle will appear around your selection, with the move cursor replacing the cross hair one. You can press this cursor down anywhere inside your selection and drag to move it, or drag while holding the Ctrl key to make a copy of it. You may need to make a Freeform selection if the part of your drawing that you want to work with is crowded up closely with parts you dont want to include. After clicking Freeform selection, drag your mouse around the area you want, as though you were drawing a line around it. When you release the mouse button, a selection rectangle will appear and it may seem that unwanted parts of the drawing have been included, but if you move the selection youll see that this is not so.