How to Draw a Perfect Circle on Microsoft Paint
Drawing a perfect circle in MS Paint is somewhat hidden within the Ellipse tool. You can force the MS Paint ellipse tool to draw a circle by holding while you click and drag the mouse.http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-vista/pain...
Method 1 of 2:
Forcing the Ellipse Tool to Draw Circles
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Picture 1 of How to Draw a Perfect Circle on Microsoft Paint Open Microsoft Paint. This program is located in 'Start Menu > Programs > Windows Accessories'. -
Picture 2 of How to Draw a Perfect Circle on Microsoft Paint Select the Ellipse tool. This tool is the oval button in the toolbar in the 'Shapes' section. -
Picture 3 of How to Draw a Perfect Circle on Microsoft Paint Press and hold ⇧ Shift. -
Picture 4 of How to Draw a Perfect Circle on Microsoft Paint Click and drag with the mouse in the drawing area. Starting from where you click, the Ellipse tool will make a perfect circle instead of the normal ellipse.- Before you release the mouse button, you can drag the mouse to adjust the size of the circle.
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Picture 5 of How to Draw a Perfect Circle on Microsoft Paint Release the mouse button. You now have a perfect circle!- This method is great for creating concentric circles, because you can see the size of the circle as you draw it.
Method 2 of 2:
Making a Circle from an Ellipse
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Picture 6 of How to Draw a Perfect Circle on Microsoft Paint Open Microsoft Paint. This program is located in 'Start Menu > Programs > Windows Accessories'. -
Picture 7 of How to Draw a Perfect Circle on Microsoft Paint Select the Ellipse tool. This tool is the oval button in the toolbar in the 'Shapes' section. -
Picture 8 of How to Draw a Perfect Circle on Microsoft Paint Click and drag with the mouse in the drawing space to make an ellipse. Do not release the mouse press. -
Picture 9 of How to Draw a Perfect Circle on Microsoft Paint Press and hold ⇧ Shift. -
Picture 10 of How to Draw a Perfect Circle on Microsoft Paint Release the mouse button.- If you release the mouse button before pressing ⇧ Shift the ellipse will be drawn and you cannot turn it into a circle. You can undo the ellipse by pressing Ctrl + Z and try again.
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Picture 11 of How to Draw a Perfect Circle on Microsoft Paint Release ⇧ Shift. The ellipse will snap into a circle shape matching the height of the ellipse.
Update 05 March 2020
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