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
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
FILED IN GRAPHICS H & E FOLDERS
– titled USING PAINT TO C & P A PIX
