Davey Do
Senior Member
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- Goofy, Illinois
I brought up an idea on the Caption This forum on the possibility of presenting a tutorial on how to use MS Paint for captions along with maybe showing how to make cartoons. @Devi expressed an interest, and anybody else interested is welcome to join in. I'm hoping @Gary O', MS Painter extraordinaire, will join in.
This is probably going to be a relatively slow process, as we will communicate with posts, and I plan on down & uploading images to help out. Now, I am completely self-taught and will be showing how to use MS Paint like I would want someone to show me if I was a newbie. Gary O' and I have different techniques, so I hope to learn from him. Feel free to ask questions and give concerns.
Every computer I've ever worked with has MS Paint and can be found by going to the start menu, or Windows icon:
Scroll down until you find MS Paint:
Click on it and this should pop up on your screen:
This is the "Home" screen. If you click on the "View" in the upper left hand corner, a second screen will pop up.
If you've made it this far, you're further than I was the first time that I found MS Paint. If you didn't get this far, together we will figure out why not.
However, if you did get to the Home screen, play around with it, clicking on different icons. Or, if you move your mouse down to the pad and hold down the right click button, the mode is in "Brush" and you can make some squiggles and such.
Don't worry about hurting anything, just let yourself go. And as an old mechanic once told me when I was learning about antique trucks, "Everything's hard until it becomes easy".
I look forward to hearing from you!
This is probably going to be a relatively slow process, as we will communicate with posts, and I plan on down & uploading images to help out. Now, I am completely self-taught and will be showing how to use MS Paint like I would want someone to show me if I was a newbie. Gary O' and I have different techniques, so I hope to learn from him. Feel free to ask questions and give concerns.
Every computer I've ever worked with has MS Paint and can be found by going to the start menu, or Windows icon:
Scroll down until you find MS Paint:
Click on it and this should pop up on your screen:
This is the "Home" screen. If you click on the "View" in the upper left hand corner, a second screen will pop up.
If you've made it this far, you're further than I was the first time that I found MS Paint. If you didn't get this far, together we will figure out why not.
However, if you did get to the Home screen, play around with it, clicking on different icons. Or, if you move your mouse down to the pad and hold down the right click button, the mode is in "Brush" and you can make some squiggles and such.
Don't worry about hurting anything, just let yourself go. And as an old mechanic once told me when I was learning about antique trucks, "Everything's hard until it becomes easy".
I look forward to hearing from you!
