Chapter 3 The Image Editor

The Microsoft Image Editor lets you create bitmaps, icons, and cursors— resources—for your applications. Also, the editor can display images at different resolutions, simulating how they will appear on different display devices.

This chapter describes the following:

Using the Image Editor bitmap, icon, and cursor files

Working with the Image Editor window, including its menu items and commands

Opening files and images within the files

Drawing with the Image Editor tools

Using the Image Editor palette, including working with different color types

Customizing the palette, including editing colors, saving changes to the palette, and loading customized palettes

Defining a cursor hotspot

Using the clipboard to transfer images between editors, to move images from one resource to another, and to create multiple images