Paint is a simple graphics program included with Windows 2000.  You can use Paint to create and edit images.  Images you create in Paint can be inserted into other programs, printed or displayed as wallpaper on your desktop.

Although Paint is a simple program, many of the tools and techniques used in the Paint program are used in more sophisticated Windows graphics programs. So, learning to use Paint can be a good way to get started with graphics programs in Windows.

The images created by Paint are bitmap images . Bitmap images cannot be displayed in a web browser, so images you create with Paint cannot be used in a web page, unless you use another program to convert the image from bitmap to another format.