Identifying the Canvas and the Tools

  The Paint program displays the Paint window, which
  contains the canvas to the right and a tool palette to the
  left.

  Paint is a bitmap graphics program, which means that it
  treats pictures as a collection of dots called pixels.  Different
  drawing tools, such as the paintbrush (the default tool), the
  pencil, and the text tool, edit the color of the pixels to either
  the foreground color or the background color to create a
  pattern.

  Because the Paint canvas has so many pixels in every square
  inch, you do not actually see patterns of dots.  Instead you see
  a collection of lines, shapes, and text.

  The minimum size for a paint picture is 10 pixels by 10 pixels.
  Depending on the layout of your picture, the total picture size
  may be up to 2550 pixels by 3300 pixels or 3300 pixels by
  2550 pixels.

  The longest side of your picture may be up to 3300 pixels.

  The shortest side may be up to 2550 pixels.

  The Paint window frames a portion of the canvas.

  Horizontal and vertical scroll bars indicate the percentage
  of the canvas in the Paint window.  Also, the canvas area
  appears at the base of the tool palette.  The canvas area is the
  boldface box within the larger box.

  Additional topics:

  *   Using the Tool Palette

  *   Choosing Menu Items

  *   Erasing

  *   Drawing Lines and Shapes

  *   Using the Paintbrush

  *   Inserting Text

  *   Saving a Picture

  *   Printing a Picture

  *   Exiting Paint