First thing is first and that is opening up Paint and creating a new image. The first thing that you will want to do is make sure that you have a plenty of room to work with. Grab the little box on the lower right hand side and drag it to make a big box to work within.

You will want to have lots of extra room so you can move things around and re-position them as needed.

Creating Simple Images or Logos In Paint

When I started working on the site for my current job I wanted to create a header image that was appropriate. We already had a logo from a previous website and the boss wanted to keep that. The problem was that it was small and if you made it bigger was distorted. The Logo in question is:

As I started to play around I realized that the original image was created in Paint as well, so now I knew I could replicate it.

I started by using the tool to create a rounded rectangle. Then I dragged the shape until it looked the way I wanted it to. After that I grabbed the Paint Bucket tool and filled in the box that I had made like this:

Now it was time to replicate the stars. Just like the box we made, there is also a tool to make a star. Select that and and on the drop down menus just to the right, select solid color on both. Also, its time to change or color from blue to white.

Now it was just a matter of creating stars to match the way it was before. When you are dragging the shapes, star in this case, make sure that you lines are crisp and the way you want them to look. In the example below I made a nice star as shown by the red arrow, and one without the crisp lines as pointed to by the yellow arrow.

A few stars later and I had the finished logo which now looks like this:

Next I moved onto Word to add in the text.