Graphic Packages for JSS2

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Graphic Packages for JSS2

Definition of Graphic Package

Graphics packages are application software that can be used to create and manipulate images on a computer.

Examples of Graphic Packages
 
Examples of graphic packages include: Ms Paint, Adobe Photoshop, Instant artist, Harvard graphic and CorelDraw.

Features of Graphic Packages

Most of the graphic packages posses the following features and tools.
1. Menu bar:
The menu bar can be used to activate commands of graphic packages and operations. Depending on the graphic package you are using, some packages contain the following. File, edit, view, text, tools, window, help, etc.
2. Toolbar:
The tool bar is a bar that contains short cuts to menu and other command. For example you can use the “open” icon o open an existing document by clicking on it. Others are save, print, cut, copy, paste, alignment, bold italics, underline etc
3. Toolbox:
A toolbox is a bar with tools for creating, filling and modifying objects in the drawing
4. Printable area:
Printable area can be referred to as the work space inside the drawing window, which you can plan your work on.
5. Colour palette:
It is a bar that allows you to fill desired objects or texts with any colour you want.

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Features of the Paint Environment

Paint is a software from Microsoft Inc. It allows one to create, customize and paint graphics or images.

Starting Paint Program
To start a paint program the following steps are to be followed:
1. Click on Start Menu
2. Navigate to all program and click on it
3. Navigate to accessories or window accessories and click on it
4. move to paint program and Click on it
Tools in the Toolbar
The paint toolbox has sixteen tools. The names of the different tools are shown in the diagram below:

Toolbox



Functions of Toolbox Tools

1. Free-form select: The free-select tool is a tool used to select objects that have been drawn in the drawing area
2. Rectangle Select tool: The Rectangle select tool is also used to select objects in the drawing area.
3. The eraser tool: It is used to remove mistakes that have been made in a drawing. The size of the eraser can be adjusted to remove either big or small areas of a drawing
4. Fill colour tool: This is a also known as paint bucket tool. It is used to fill objects that have drawn with any colour of your choice.
5. Pick colour tool: The pick colour is used to pick or select colour from pictures.
6. Magnifier tool: The magnifier tool is used to make objects in the drawing area appear bigger.
7. Pencil tool: The pencil tool is known as the default tool in the paint program. You can use the pencil for drawing just like a real life pencil. You must click and drag the mouse pointer to use the pencil tool.
8. Brush tool: The brush tool works like a real life brush. You have different brush options to choose from in the tool box.
9. Air brush tool: The air brush tool is used to spray colour over an objects. The airbrush tool works like a spray can. The amount of colour spray over a particular area depends on how long you hold down the mouse button and keep it in the same area.
10. Text tool: the text tool is used for inserting text into the drawing.
11. Line tool: The line tool is used to draw horizontal, vertical and diagonal lines.
12. Rectangular tool: The rectangular tool is used to draw rectangles and squares of different sizes.
13. Curve tool: The curve tool is used for drawing curves from a line. To draw curve line, you must first draw a line with the tool, and then click on any part of the line and drag the mouse pointer to create a curve on the line.
14. Polygon tool: The polygon tool is used to draw straight line objects with different shapes and sizes. You can use the polygon tool to draw a triangle, star, rhombus and many other polygon.
15. Ellipse tool: The ellipse tool is used to for drawing ovals and circles of different sizes.
16. Rounded rectangle tool: It is used for drawing rectangles and squares of different sizes with rounded edges.

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