Painting software
Painting software is used to create original pieces of work using your A device for moving a pointer or cursor on the screen. or graphics tablet. A graphics tablet is a touch-sensitive surface that you draw on with a pen. It reproduces what you draw on screen. They are generally preferred by professional designers.
Windows Paint is the most basic painting software and is included with the Microsoft's brand of operating systems, eg Windows 98, Windows XP, Windows Vista, etc. operating system. Programs with more features are Adobe Photoshop and GIMP, which also allow you to edit photos.
Features commonly seen in painting software are:
- cut, copy and paste – copy and paste parts of one image into another
- pencil or brush tool – choose different thicknesses and edging
- shapes – choose from a selection of shapes, eg squares, circles and triangles
- colour palette - choose from thousands of colours or create your own shade
- fill – fill a shape or area with colour
- zoom – get in close to edit fine details in your image
Painting software outputs An image made up of pixels. This type of image loses quality if its width and/or height are increased. files. Bitmap files lose quality when they are resized.
