Microsoft Paint

Microsoft Paint (MSPaint or simply Paint) is a very basic graphic editing tool that comes with Microsoft Windows. It has featured in the majority of Windows operating systems, the most recent being Windows Vista.

The standard version of MSPaint first appeared in Windows 95 (although simpler versions existed before then) and has featured in every Windows operating system to date without change (apart from the Windows Vista version which has a change in default palette, more "undo" levels and better zoom and crop functions). It has the ability to save images in BMP, GIF, PNG (XP and Vista only), JPEG and TIFF formats.

MSPaint is a highly popular choice among spriters because of it's simplicity, however at the same time many look down on it as being an inferior graphics editor because of that. It is not reccomended if the user wishes to make more detailed or complicated graphics as the only real way to achieve this in paint is to create pixel art.

Current versions of paint include the following options:

• Free-Form Select
• Select
• Eraser/Color Eraser
• Fill With Color
• Pick Color
• Magnifier
• Pencil
• Brush
• Airbrush
• Text
• Line
• Curve
• Rectangle
• Polygon
• Ellipse
• Rounded Rectangle

However it is also possible to flip, rotate, sketch/skew, invert colours and of course change the image dimentions. Also palettes, text sizes, line widths etc. can be changed.