The classic Paint, ready to use in your browser
This is the Paint many people learned on: a tool box on the left, colors at the bottom, and a menu for flipping, stretching and resizing a picture. It runs in the page above with nothing to install, on Windows, Mac, Chromebook and Linux.
It keeps the old layout and adds what the old program lacked: unlimited undo, transparent pictures, and rotation by any angle. The guides below cover every tool and menu, one task at a time.
What it does that the old Paint didn't
Unlimited undo
Step back through every change with Ctrl+Z, not just the last three.
Transparent pictures
Set Image > Attributes to Transparent, then clear the image or use the Eraser.
Crop in one move
Hold Ctrl while you draw a selection to crop the picture to it.
Rotate by any angle
Image > Flip/Rotate takes any angle, and Ctrl+. or Ctrl+, turns the picture.
Replace a color everywhere
Hold Shift with Fill With Color to change every pixel of that color at once.
Animated GIF of your drawing
The Extras menu, or Ctrl+Shift+G, turns your undo history into a GIF.
The 16 tools
- Free-Form Select
- Select
- Eraser/Color Eraser
- Fill With Color
- Pick Color
- Magnifier
- Pencil
- Brush
- Airbrush
- Text
- Line
- Curve
- Rectangle
- Polygon
- Ellipse
- Rounded Rectangle
Latest guides
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Shortcuts worth knowing
| Ctrl+Z | Undo the last change |
| Ctrl+A | Select the whole picture |
| Ctrl+E | Image attributes (size, transparency) |
| Ctrl+R | Flip or rotate |
| Ctrl+. | Turn the picture 90° clockwise |
| Ctrl+I | Invert colors |
| Ctrl+F | View the picture full screen |
| Ctrl+Shift+G | Make an animated GIF |
About this Paint
The editor on this page is JS Paint, an open-source remake of MS Paint by Isaiah Odhner, released under the MIT licence. It is not made by or affiliated with Microsoft.
Looking for the Paint app that comes with Windows 11? Our Windows Paint guides cover where to find it and how it differs.