The version of Paint included in Windows 95 and Windows NT 4.0 allowed saving and loading a custom set of color wells as color palette files ( *.pal) using Save colors and Get colors functions from the Colors menu. The same icons and color palette continued to be used through Windows XP. In Windows 95, a new version of Paint was introduced.
For its simplicity, it rapidly became one of the most used applications in the early versions of Windows-introducing many to painting on a computer for the first time-and still has strong associations with the immediate usability of the old Windows workspace.
The program can be in color mode or two-color black-and-white, but there is no grayscale mode. bmp extension), JPEG, GIF (without animation or transparency, although the Windows 98 version, a Windows 95 upgrade, and the Windows NT4 version did support the latter), PNG (without alpha channel), and TIFF (without multiple page support). The program opens and saves files as Windows bitmap (24-bit, 256 color, 16 color, and monochrome, all with the. It is often referred to as MS Paint or Microsoft Paint.
Paint (formerly Paintbrush for Windows) is a simple graphics painting program that has been included with all versions of Microsoft Windows. Imaging for Windows, Windows Live Photo Gallery Microsoft Windows 1.0 and later Windows operating systems Paint on Windows 8, outlining the ribbon interface