PC PaintBrush

PC Paintbrush: Basic Painting for Microsoft Windows

PC Paintbrush is a basic paint program for Microsoft Windows. It allows users to create simple drawings and edit pixel graphics. Key features include basic shape tools, color palette, brushes, text tool, and basic image editing tools like crop, flip, invert, etc.

What is PC PaintBrush?

PC Paintbrush is one of the early basic paint programs made for Microsoft Windows. First released in 1990 by ZSoft Corporation, it provides users with a simple interface to create pixel drawings, edit images, and do basic painting.

Some key features of PC Paintbrush include:

• Drawing tools like rectangle, ellipse, line, freehand brush
• Shape tools like fill, erase, pick color, magnify
• Text tool with font selection, bold, italic, etc.
• Basic image editing tools like crop, flip horizontally/vertically, rotate, invert colors, etc.
• Support for saving files in PCX, BMP, and other formats
• Intuitive interface optimized for use with a mouse

While more advanced paint programs exist today, PC Paintbrush occupies an important place in the history of painting software for Windows. It demonstrated features that would influence subsequent programs, while remaining compact and fast compared to later feature-rich software.

PC PaintBrush Features

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