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- <h2>Main Window</h2>
- <p>The Paint.NET user interface is broken up in to 9 major areas:</p>
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- <p>This tells you the name of the image you are working with, as well as the current zoom level and the version
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- <p>This is where you can access the various menu items. Quite often, commands accessible from this location
- will be referenced using <b>Menu → Command</b> notation. For example, <b>File → Exit</b> means to clicking
- on the File menu, and then click on the Exit command.</p>
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- <p>Right below the menus there are several icons and controls for executing various commands or adjusting certain
- global drawing options.</p>
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- <h3>Image canvas </h3>
- <p>This is where the image is visible, and is the area where you may draw
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- <p>This where the active tool is highlighted, and where you may choose from other tools. It is also where
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- <p>Everything you've done to an image since you opened it is listed in this window.</p>
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- <p>Every image contains at least one layer, and this window is your primary area for managing them.</p>
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- <p>This is the primary area for selecting colors to draw with. It consists
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- <font color="#808080" size="1">Copyright <font face="Times New Roman">⌐ 2006 </font>
- Rick Brewster, Tom
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