Windows Vista™ Plain & Simple

Drawing Pictures

If you’re feeling artistic, you can create a picture in the Paint program, which comes with Windows Vista. Paint was designed so that you can create and edit bitmap pictures in a variety of formats. (A bitmap is just that: a map created from small dots, or bits.) Although you can print your pictures if you want to, Paint pictures are usually inserted into other documents. You can also create a Paint picture and use it as the wallpaper for your Desktop.

Create a Picture

1. Click the Start button, type pain in the Search box, and click Paint to start the Paint program.

2. Choose Attributes from the Image menu to display the Attributes dialog ...