Paint Classic guide

Getting started with Paint Classic

Paint Classic is a paint program in the style of 1998, in your browser. It has the classic tools, plus a Brush and a Stamp.

Open Paint Classic

Draw

The tools are Free-Form Select, Select, Eraser/Color Eraser, Fill With Color, Pick Color, Magnifier, Pencil, Brush, Airbrush, Text, Line, Curve, Rectangle, Polygon, Ellipse, Rounded Rectangle, Brush and Stamp.

1. Click a tool in the toolbox on the left. Point at a tool to see its name.
2. Click a colour in the colour box at the bottom to make it the primary colour. Double-click a colour to edit it.
3. Drag on the white canvas to draw. Hold Shift with Rectangle or Ellipse for a square or a circle, or with Line to snap to 45 degrees.
4. Under the toolbox, pick the size or the fill style of the tool you are using.

Change the picture

The Image menu has Flip/Rotate… (Ctrl+R), Stretch/Skew… (Ctrl+Shift+W), Invert Colors (Ctrl+I), Attributes… (Ctrl+E) for the canvas size, and Clear Image. STYLIZE turns the whole picture into tlbx; Ctrl+Z undoes it.

You can also drag the small handles on the edges of the canvas to resize it.

Open and save

File, Open… (Ctrl+O) opens a picture from your computer, and Open from Files… opens one from Files.

File, Save (Ctrl+S) downloads the picture as a PNG file. Save As… lets you give it a new name first.

Tip: Help, Search Commands… (Ctrl+K) finds any menu item by name, and Help, Keyboard Shortcuts… lets you change the keys.

Keyboard shortcuts