Creating Images

If you are using Windows, you can make some graphics for your web page that is free! Its called Paint, and you can usually find it under PROGRAMS then ACCESSORIES in your START bar.

Paint looks like this:

Paint

You may have used it before to draw pictures. If not, let's draw a picture that we want to use in our web page.

Pencil ToolUse the pencil tool to draw your picture.

You can use the colors at the bottom to change the color you are drawing with. The squares on the far left will change color when you select a new color.

Colors

I decided to draw a flower.

Paint

Fill with Color ToolYou can use the fill with color tool to fill in a lot of color at once. You have to make sure that all the lines are closed so the paint doesn't get out.

Paint

Once you are done with your picture, we need to save it so you can use it in your web page. Go to the FILE menu and select SAVE AS. Be sure to save it in the same place that you saved your webpage. Give the picture a name and remember it.

The we use the image tag to put it in our page.

<img src="flower.bmp">

Paint

And there's your image! Play with the Paint program some more and see what else you can figure out. And be sure to check out our Web Divas to Webmaster lesson coming in December 2001 to learn how to make buttons and more for your webpage!