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How To Make Shapes In MS Paint
How to make Shapes in MS Paint Complete Information
You have to draw a Square, Rectangle or Oval shape in MS Paint. Can you draw these shapes using the Pencil Tool or the Brush Tool.
Maybe you would say yes! We can draw Square, Rectangle, Oval etc. Shapes in MS Paint. Drawing these types of shapes in MS Paint is a bit difficult. Because we mostly use Pencil and Brushes to draw Lines.
To solve this problem, ready-made shapes are given in MS Paint. By using these shapes, any size, color in MS Paint can be easily drawn Square, Rectangle, Oval, Heart, Arrows etc.
How to make Shapes in MS Paint? Which shapes can you draw in MS Paint? We have told about all these in a step-by-step manner below.
How to Create Shapes in MS Paint
1- To create Shapes, you have to open MS Paint first.
2- After opening it, look at the Shapes Box from the Home Tab. It is shown in the red square below.
3- Different types of Shapes are available to use in Shape Box. In these shapes you get to draw Line, Curve, Oval, Rectangle, Polygon, Triangle, Arrows, Callouts, Hearts, Stars etc. Shapes. The shape you want to use. Click on it. That shape will be selected. To know whether the shape has been selected or not? Drag your Mouse Pointer to see. On dragging the mouse pointer, the selected shape starts forming.
4- Now you have to create the selected shape in the drawing area of MS Paint. To create a shape, drag it while pressing the Left Click of your mouse. As you drag the mouse, the same shape will be formed.
Changing the Size of Shapes
You can create Shapes in different sizes. If you have to create a shape of lesser thickness (Width). So choose less thickness of Shape. And if you want to create a thicker shape, then choose more thickness of the shape. To change the size of Shapes, we have told below.
1- To change the size of Shapes, first click on the Down Arrow of Size. You can see it in the screenshot below.
2- On clicking the Down Arrow, lines of different sizes will open in front of you. From here you can choose the thickness of the line according to the thickness of your choice. You will click on any thickness line. Shapes will be of the same thickness.
3- You can also do the size of Shapes through Keyboard. To increase the thickness of the shape, press + (Plus) along with Ctrl from the keyboard. And to decrease the thickness of the Shape, press – (Minus) with Ctrl from the keyboard.
Change Color of Shapes
You can create Shapes in any color as per your choice. You can create Shapes of two colors simultaneously. Below we have told how the color of Shapes is changed? And how are different colored shapes made?
1- To change the first color of Shapes, first click on Color 1. After this click on the color of your choice from the Color Palette. By doing this your first color will change. You can use this color through Left Click. The first color is called the Foreground Color.
2- To change the background color of Shapes, first click on Color 2. After this click on the color of your choice from the Color Palette. By doing this your background color will change. You can use this color by Right Click.
Filling Color in Shapes
Above you learned how the color of a shape is changed. To change the color which has been mentioned above. It is called Border Color. Here we are talking about the color inside the shape. You can change its border and inner color in any shape as per your choice.
1- To fill color in Shapes, first you have to activate the Color Bucket Tool.
2- To activate it, click on the Icon of Color Bucket from the Tools Group of the Home Tab. To know whether the Color Bucket is selected or not? Look at your Mouse Pointer. The mouse pointer has now changed to Color Bucket.
3- Now to fill the first color in Shapes, first click on Color 1. After this click on the color of your choice from the Color Palette. By doing this your first color will change. You can use this color through Left Click. The first color is called the Foreground Color.
4- To fill the second i.e. Background Color in Shapes, click on Color 2 first. After this click on the color of your choice from the Color Palette. By doing this your background color will change. You can use this color by Right Click.
5- Below we have made a shape. In which it has been told how both Border Color and Shape Color are different.
6- Above you can see how Border Color and Shape Color are different. You can also fill Border and Shape Color in your Shapes in the same way.
What have you learned ?
In this tutorial you learned how to create shapes in MS Paint. And you learned that the color and their size are changed in Shapes. We hope that this tutorial will prove useful for you. And after reading this you will be able to create Shapes easily.
