Microsoft Paint

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What is MS Paint?

MS Paint, or Microsoft Paint, is a simple application for editing images that comes installed by default in Windows. MS Paint isn't a very powerful image editor, but it can perform basic image-editing tasks, such as cropping and resizing images, copying and pasting, drawing simple shapes, adding text to images, and saving images as JPG.

A screenshot of Microsoft Paint running in Windows 11.
A screenshot of Microsoft Paint running in Windows 11.

I always use MS Paint when I need to quickly crop a screenshot or an image I copied from the Internet, but I rarely save images with MS Paint. For example, if I want to post an image on Discord, I paste it on MS Paint, crop it, copy it from MS Paint, and paste it on Discord. The same workflow works with most social media websites.

For anything more complex than that, I wouldn't use MS Paint. Even placing two images side by side is difficult with MS Paint, and I'd rather use Inkscape for that.

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Written by Noel Santos.

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I'm a self-taught Brazilian programmer graduated in IT from a FATEC. In a world of increasingly complex and essential computers, I decided to use my technical expertise in hardware, desktop applications, and web technologies to create an informative resource to make PC's easier to understand.

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