Paint was my first big Visual Basic project, created as the main project for my Computing A level course. I'm still not entirely sure why I decided to make a drawing package since the examiner's guidelines basically said 'write a database'.

So, what could it do ? The final version of Paint had a 3 page printout listing all of the different functions (and those are just the ones which worked). It had it's own RLE encoded image format, a freehand polygon creation tool (kind of like the sort of thing you see in vector packages today), and a cool gel brush (which looked like squeezing some weird type of paint onto the image).

So, what could it almost do ? There were a few things that were never quite finished (barely started). These included the ability to set 'surface textures' for the brushes - so your use the pen tool and make it look like it's drawing on stone, or greasy paper, etc.

Download Paint 9.0 Beta
I may make the final Beta version available at some point, but first I need to dig up the source code and see if everything still works.