DRAWING A SYMMETRICAL DESIGN WITH WINDOWS PAINT
Use the line and
curve drawing tools and left mouse button to roughly
outline one half of the shield. (The size does not matter
as you will be able to scale it up or down later when
finished.) To draw the curve: click at 1 and drag out a
line to 2, move mouse to 3 and drag out the curve to
desired shape at 4, then without moving the mouse click
to fix the shape.
Use the line tool and
left mouse button to draw a straight outline for half the
chevron.
Use the fill tool and
left mouse button to fill in the area with black. Be
careful, if there are any holes in the outline then the
fill will leak out onto the whole page. If this happens
select Edit/Undo from the menu bar.
Use the zoom tool (usually
shown as a magnifying glass) to zoom in and tidy up your
drawing pixel by pixel using the pencil tool.
Note:
the left mouse button = blackand the right mouse button = white
(depending on the colours currently selected in the palette:)
Using the cut-out
tool (usually shown as a dotted box) mark off the area by
pressing the mouse button and dragging the pointer from
the top-left corner to the bottom-right corner.
Select Edit/Copy
then Edit/Paste from the menu bar to
make a copy of your drawing. When the copy appears (top
left-hand corner of the screen), move it next to the
original but leave the area marked off.
With the copied area
still marked, select image/Flip-Rotate/Flip
horizontal from the menu bar.Move the pointer inside the marked area, press the left mouse button and drag the flipped copy until it locks neatly onto the first drawing.
Click the left mouse
button anywhere to clear the marked area then select File/Save
from the menu bar. Type in a suitable filename and press
the [Enter] key.