Questions tagged [microsoft-paint]
Simple drawing and photo-editing program included with Microsoft Windows since Windows 1.0.
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How can I keep Microsoft Paint?
With the recent news of Microsoft canning MS Paint in the Autumn Creator's Update, will I have the option to keep Microsoft Paint? Is Microsoft Paint 3D also on the chopping block? Or will I be forced ...
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Paste with transparent background in Paint
Paint v5.1 (Windows XP) had a fantastic feature to allow you to paste an image with a transparent background (see images below, note that "Paste" section that appears below the tools on the left).
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What version of MS Paint shipped with Windows Vista?
I'm looking to find which versions of Microsoft Paint shipped with each version of Windows so I can update Wikipedia's release history.
Wikipedia's current list includes general changes between ...
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Can I zoom in/out without clearing my selection in MS Paint?
I have part of an image selected in Microsoft Paint in Windows 7.
I want to zoom in to my image and make precise adjustments. However, when I try to zoom in, either with Ctrl+Scroll Up or the ...
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Is there a more efficient way to add uniform spacing to center an image?
I use Microsoft Paint to generate a lot of explanatory images. For the benefit of visibility, I often wish to display my resulting image in the center. This often means I have to include spacing along ...
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MS Paint memory usage
Why my machine uses 2.5Gb of RAM to open 250Mb bmp file using MS Paint?
I was basically using some dense jpeg files to combine it into one large file, using MS Paint. The file as saved on the drive ...
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Microsoft Paint color replacement not working
When I use Microsoft Paint, the color replacement tool using the eraser only works some of the time. Most of the time it does nothing.
How can I fix this?
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Is there a fix to prevent text input in paint from being very aliased/blurry?
Basically, I press the "A" shaped button in paint to type text, it looks clear.
I press outside the box, and the text becomes more blurry/pixelated.
Is there a way to resolve this while not having ...
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How to alter the color of an image
I have two images here of grilled unagi (eel), this one:
obtained from the Internet, and this one:
taken by me. How would I, using GIMP (or, if it's even possible, with Paint), adjust the color of ...
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How do I remove the background from an image?
I have a logo:
and I'd like to get rid of that yellow-ish background once and for all and perhaps even change the whole logo to black instead of green. is there a way to accomplish this with Paint or ...
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Why does Paint sometimes change the color of a part of the image?
Sometimes, Paint changes the RGB value of the color of a group of pixels in a PNG image when it gets saved. It only changes a little bit, for example from RGB(128,128,128) to RGB(127,127,127), so you ...
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JPEG size made smaller by MSPAINT, why?
I have lots of JPEGs from DSLR, and they are roughly about 5-6MB per JPEG. I open any of them using MSPAINT, and click the SAVE and notice the size immediately go down to 2-3MB.
Why? there seems no ...
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How to get print screens on Win 10 without (black) borders in MS paint?
Whenever I make a print screen from the actual window with Alt + PrtScn in Windows 10 and then paste it into MS paint, I get a black border around the picture.
What is the easiest way to get a ...
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Best way to clean up a PDF without increasing file size massively
I scan a lot of A4 notes that I write up, but a lot of my old ones have staple holes in them. Some of these scans also have slight imperfections such as a small dot (dirt) on them, which really bugs ...
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Copy text and border from Word to MS Paint
I have a Word document with a border. When I copy and paste the whole document into MS Paint only the text is copied. The border is not copied. I have tried this with Office 2007, 2010 and 2013.
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