About IDMAA Paint
IDMAA Paint puts the classic Paint program in your browser and explains how to use it, one task at a time.
The editor
The Paint on our home page is JS Paint, an open-source remake of MS Paint written by Isaiah Odhner and released under the MIT licence. We host it here without changes to how it draws, and removed the features that would send your pictures to other services. It is not made by or affiliated with Microsoft.
What we cover
Every tool in the tool box, the Image and Colors menus, saving and opening pictures, and keyboard shortcuts. A separate set of guides covers the Paint app that comes with Windows: where to find it and how it differs from this one.
How a guide is written
Every step is a menu path, a tool or a key press, so you can follow the guide from the text alone. Guides to this editor are checked against the editor itself; guides to the Windows Paint app are checked against Microsoft's documentation. Steps we cannot confirm are left out rather than guessed.
Keeping guides current
The date on a guide is the date its steps were last written or changed. If a step does not match what you see, tell us through the Contact page and we will check it and correct the guide.
Who we are
Guides are published by the IDMAA Editorial Team and carry no individual bylines. We do not sell software or offer downloads.