Windows Vista in a Nutshell

Chapter 12. Graphics and Multimedia

Windows Vista offers considerable multimedia capabilities; it is a substantial upgrade over Windows XP. Windows Movie Maker, for example, is a far more powerful and sophisticated program than the version that shipped with Windows XP, and Windows Media Player 11 is a significant upgrade as well. In addition, Windows Vista has new graphics applications, such as the Windows Photo Gallery and the Snipping Tool.

This chapter covers Windows graphics and multimedia tools; for information about installing related hardware, see Chapter 9.

Here is an alphabetical reference of entries in this chapter:

Fax Cover Page Editor	Snipping Tool	Windows Media Player
Microsoft Magnifier	Windows DVD Maker	Windows Movie Maker
Paint	Windows Fax and Scan	Windows Photo Gallery
Private Character Editor	Windows Media Center

Fax Cover Page Editor

See Chapter 10.

Microsoft Magnifier

See Chapter 10.

Paint: \windows\system32\mspaint.exe

A rudimentary image editor, used to create and modify .bmp, .jpg, .gif, .tif, .ico, and .png image files.

To open

Start → All Programs → Accessories → Paint

Command Prompt → mspaint

Description

Paint is a basic image editor (often called a “paint program”) capable of creating and modifying most Windows Bitmap (.bmp), Joint Photographic Experts Group (.jpg), Compuserve Graphics Interchange Format (.gif), Tagged Image File Format (.tif), and Portable Network Graphics (.png) image files. It can open icon (.ico) files but cannot save graphics ...