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USING PAINT TO DOWNLOAD A PICTURE

 PREPARED BY 

RICHARD NELSON

09.11.19

DOWNLOADING A PICTURE FROM THE INTERNET TO PAINT

The words picture and graphics are used interchangeably in this instruction.

DIFFERENT WAYS OF DOWNLOADING PICTURES

There are several common ways of downloading a picture from the internet.

One is to save the picture directly to a storage device on your computer.

A second way is to print the picture directly from the internet. This way is covered towards the end of this instruction

Another is to copy the picture and then paste it to a word processing document this is covered towards the end of this instruction

A forth way is to copy the picture and paste it into the Paint program. In this instruction we will concentrate on this forth method.

NOTE IN THE INSTRUCTIONS BELOW, WHEN IT SAYS CLICK IT MEANS LEFT CLICK, COMPARED TO WHEN IT SAYS RIGHT CLICK

THE PAINT PROGRAM IN WINDOWS
Paint is a basic computer graphics software package that is always included free in the Windows programs. It is not very powerful, but I will perform many of the basic operations that you might want to do.

OPENING PAINT FROM THE START BUTTON AND ALL PROGRAMS:

1.     Click on the Master Start button on the lower left of your screen,

2.     Then slide your mouse up to “All Programs” - CLICK. A new menu will pop out.

3.     Find the Accessories folder and click - another menu will pop out

4.     Find Paint and click. That will open the Paint program.

AN ALTERNATIVE WAY OF OPENING PAINT FROM A DESKTOP ICON
This method assumes that you already have a Paint Icon on your Desktop

  1. Go to your Desktop find the Paint Icon and right click on it – you will get a menu.
  2. Click on Open

COPYING YOUR PICTURE

 1. Find the picture you want to copy and paste – in this case we will download it from the Internet site www.shellpoint.net . Find the Photo Contest link and click on it. And choose the picture you want to copy.

 2. Put the mouse in the middle of the picture you chose to copy and Right click.

You should get a menu. (You will always get a menu when you right click)

3. Click on the line that says “Copy” – that will put a copy of the picture on your computer’s Clipboard.

PASTING YOUR PICTURE INTO PAINT

With the Paint program open on your screen – go up to the Menu bar and click on Edit – then click on Paste – that will paste the picture from your Clipboard onto the Paint program ready for you to edit.

USING PAINT TO RESIZE YOUR GRAPHICS

1.     Click on Image on the Menu bar,

2.     Click on Stretch/Skew OR Resize/Skew on the newest Paint software

You will be presented with a screen where in the upper half you can change the horizontal and vertical size by typing in new numbers.

For example if you want to enlarge you picture by 50% type in 150 in both the horizontal and veridical spaces and then click “OK”

If you want to reduce the size of your picture by 25%, type 75 in both the horizontal and vertical space and click “OK”

The Paint software is very limited compared to some graphics packages but within its limits it is very useful.

CROPPING GRAPHICS USING PAINT
Open the Paint program like so: Click on Start> slid to All Programs click >slide to Accessories> slide to Paint and click.

On the Paint program, open the graphics that you want to crop

1.     Click on the dotted rectangle just below Edit on the Menu bar.

2.     Starting in the upper left of the graphics you want to crop, drag from upper   to lower right and you will see a dotted box around the part of the graphics you want to crop. If you mess up click, and start over.

 3.     Now go to Edit on the Menu bar and click on Copy. That will put just the cropped part of the graphics in the Clipboard of RAM.

PUTTING YOUR CROPPED PICTURE ON ANOTHER COPY OF PAINT

1 Open a second copy of the Paint program as above.

2 Once in Paint, go up to the Menu bar and click on Edit.

3 Come down and click on Paste.

The cropped graphics will appear on the screen. If you like at this point, you can save the cropped picture.

 COPYING A PICTURE FROM THE INTERNET AND PASTE IT TO WORKS

It is easy to copy a picture from the Internet as follows:

1. Right click on the picture. You will get a menu. (You will always get a menu when you right click)

2. On that menu   click on Copy

That will put a copy of that picture on your clipboard ready to paste.

With the graphics image still on your Clipboard,

3. Open MS Works.

4. Peck the Enter Key two times to get the cursor down a little.

5. Go up to Edit on the Menu bar and click,

6. Click on Paste

In a few seconds the graphics picture will appear on your Word processing. You can add text any place on the Screen where the Cursor is. Or you can add other graphics to what you already have. .
PRINTING A PICTURE FROM THE INTERNET

It is easy to print a picture from the Internet as follows:

1. Right click on the picture. You will get a menu. (You will always get a menu when you right click)

2. On that menu   click on Print Picture

That will send the picture to your printer - In a few seconds the graphics picture will be printing.

DOING A PRINT SCREEN
I find many times I want to copy what is on the screen of the computer monitor to the Clip Board so I can Paste it to a document later. Below are several methods for doing that.

THE EASIEST WAY TO MAKE A SCREEN PRINT

With the graphics on the screen, just peck the prt scr key. This usually works. But if it doesn’t try the methods below.
Now open the appropriate software package (usually word processing software) and paste it by clicking on Edit and then Paste And from here you can change it or save it or print it out.

(NOTE: THE PRT/SCRN KEY IS USUALLY IN THE UPPER RIGHT OF YOUR MAIN KEYBOARD)

if the above method doesn’t, work, here are several ways to do a print screen depending on what computer you are using. You might have to try more than one to get the results you want.

 USING THE ALT KEY AND PRT/SCR KEY TOGETHER

Have the page you want to screen print on your screen. Hold down the Alt key and while still holding it down peck the Prt Scr key. This will put a copy of the screen on the clipboard. Now open the appropriate software package (usually word processing software) to paste the screen print to. This will usually be your word processing program. And from here you can change it or save it or print it out.

 ANOTHER WAY TO SCREEN PRINT USING THE SHIFT KEY
Have the page you want to screen print on your screen. Hold down the shift key and while still holding it down peck the Prt Scr key. This will put a copy of the screen on the clipboard.

COMMON COMPUTER GRAPHICS PROTOCOLS YOU SHOULD KNOW
Jpeg (jpg) = Joint Photographic Expert Group

Gif (gif) = Graphics Interchange Format

Bitmap (bmp) = BitMap

Tiff (tif) = Tagged Image File Format

Jpegs and Gifs are best used for email because they are the most efficient.

These are called suffixes and are assigned to a saved graphic like so: .jpg, .gif or .bmp

 

 

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