Students Art

Microsoft Paint, first introduced with Windows 95, has over the last few years evolved into a quality image editing programme which has great versatility and is useful for both beginners and professional graphic artists alike. 

The latest version comes complete with a set of realistic brushes, bringing pictures more to life than ever before.

One of its main advantages is its price, or lack of it. Supplied as part of the Windows operating system, it is, and always has been, free. So are enhancements, upgrades and/or any necessary bug fixes.

Extensive documentation, including hints, tips and tutorials available onlinemakes it extremely user-friendly.

MS Paint does not have many of the features and options provided in other editing programmes. It does not, for instance, support filters, layers or transparency. Images can, however, be rotated, resized and merged.

Consisting of a small set of pens, brushes, a variety of other drawing tools and a convenient text tool to overlay text on top of images, it supports most popular image formats, such as bmp, jpg and gif.