Q&A for How to Use Microsoft Paint in Windows

You can change the color of an existing line with the paint bucket tool, which is "fill all." To erase the brown line you can use the same tool and fill it in white, but you'll have to patch the black line after.

On the Home tab, click "resize," then click the radio button next to "pixels." A 5x7 image is 1500 x 2100 pixels. If your image is not that size, you can resize it by typing those numbers into horizontal (1500) and vertical (2100)

Click the text tool (the letter A on the menu), then click somewhere on your picture. Start typing, then click anywhere else on the image when you're finished.

When you open Paint, the default menu pick is "Pencil." Open Paint BEFORE you copy an item (either from a different software or a different session of Paint), then click inside of Paint and press Ctrl-V.

Use the eraser tool. It may take a while. To speed things up, use the large setting.

Unfortunately, Paint doesn't have the ability to remove the background.

To paint and draw! You can also edit photos with fun drawings! You can make gifs and bases (A drawing picture for editing).

It depends on the error message, but it's usually a good idea to search Google for the exact phrasing to see if others have had issues with the same error.

This sort of project would be better suited to a program for page layout, such as Quark, Pagemaker or Microsoft Word.

Open Paint to a blank canvas and stretch it to a size that is larger than your combined pictures would be. Paste the 1st picture; Select it,resize it (if necessary) and position it; then do the same with the 2nd picture. Note: the 2nd picture will paste on top of the first but should be dragged to a different position before proceeding. Once the layout looks correct, grab the right-hand width control (a tiny white box in the center of the right edge) and drag it into position. Do the same with the bottom control to shrink the composition to its final size.

Go to the "Paint" button (the blue button), then click on "Properties." (The icon is an orange check mark.) Under the "Color" selection, choose "Black and White," then press "OK." You will get a notice informing you that converting to black and white cannot be undone, and may cause some loss of color information. Press "OK."

You have to select the picture (using Select All or just manually selecting the part of the picture you want to invert), then right-click and click "invert color".

They should be in the top right. They appears as an arrow pointing left for undo and right for redo.

Once you click away from the text box, you can't re-edit the text. You can color the letters a different color by filling them in with the paint bucket though.

Unfortunately, MS Paint can't edit photos very well. If you'd like to achieve that effect, screenshot a picture of the sea and edit it over where the person was. You can do the same for the sky.

While using the Text tool, use the keyboard shortcut Ctrl + U. You can also use the Underline button. It will turn orange when activated and looks like an underlined U.

MS Paint can't bend text. To work around this, type your text in MS Word and bend it using the Word Art Text Effects tool. When it looks how you want, take a screenshot and paste that into MS Paint for further editing.

The keyboard shortcut for grid lines is "Ctrl + G". When activated, the grid lines will show up on the screen. To make the grid squares larger or smaller, you will have to zoom in and out.

Sadly, Microsoft Paint does not have a feature for a gradient. There are many good color blending sites out there. One of them is the color blender on meyerweb.com, which is found in the toolbox tab. You input the RGB values and blend, and the site blends for you. For a gradient, it helps if you set the midpoints to 10.

You should clear up some memory. For example, if there's an old game, app, or pictures, try to uninstall it or delete the pictures.

Go to 'select' to choose (for example) the rectangular tool, choose the undamaged area you wish to copy and border the area and then click the 'copy' button, then the 'paste' button and drag it over the damaged area.

There currently is no way to do this. However, you could draw your picture, then go into a free editing program (i.e., Paint.Net) and use the monochrome setting.

Go to File > Properties and under Units click the radio button next to Inches.

While in the Text tool, you may highlight the text (click and drag over it), and then choose a color to change its color. After you've clicked outside of the text box, you can no longer edit the text. (You must undo and retype the text again.) If you need to change the color of text after leaving the text box and don't feel like retyping it, use the Fill All tool to do so quickly. However, you may need to zoom in very close to remove excess pixels due to anti-aliasing.

If you mean using the eraser as a paintbrush, then just change the secondary color that you have active.

Open a new tab in Paint and hit Ctrl+O to bring up a menu of documents. Find the picture you want to open (usually located in your Pictures folder) and double click on it to open it in Paint. Once it's open, you can make your changes.

Once you open the new email message, click on the paperclip icon near the bottom of the message box. Navigate to the file you'd like to attach.

Use the "Select" option and select what you want to move. Then you drag it to the desired location.

Save the picture as a file, and then open it in Paint. Once opened, you can make any kinds of changes by using the many brushes and features.

Microsoft Paint loses your custom color palette every time you close the program. To work around this limitation, take note of either the red, green, blue code or the hue, sat(uration), lum(inosity) code when you create a custom color. The numbers for the code are located on the bottom right of MS Paint's "Edit Colors" window. The next time you open Paint, type the 3 numbers into the boxes to recreate a color, then Add to Custom Colors to add it to your palette for the current painting session.