Using a Paint Program



A Paint program creates images on the screen by turning dots on and off. These dots are called Pixels. When a colour is selected, each pixel that is turned on displays the colour selected. Pixels are turned on or off by moving the mouse over the painting area on the screen with the mouse button down. These notes refer to ClarisWorks version 4.

The Work Area

The tools are displayed down the left hand side of the page.

To find out what each tool does click on the tool bar.

The colour palette is beneath the tools.

To find out what each tool does click on the colour palette.

 



Creating a tree using a paint program




Select the Brush tool. Double click on the icon to change the shape of the brush.

 

Draw the trunk of the tree.

 


 

Select a smaller paintbrush size and go over the tree adding finer detail.


 

Select the colour you wish for the tree trunk.

Using the Fill tool to colour the trunk.


Select the Brush tool and change to a smaller size

Paint in highlights on the trunk.

 


Choose a darker colour for the leaves and select the spraycan tool


Paint the first layer of leaves


Repeat steps 9 and 10 using progressively lighter colours

 

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