Windows 10: Size of image changes from MS Paint

When I create an image in MS Paint it is sized in pixels. I can use the Properties page to set the initial size of the image. Say I sized the area to 200 x 200 pixels and then drew something on it and saved the image. When I then open the image with one of the photo viewing apps, or in my case open the image in a Python program, the same sized image looks a great deal larger. The Python program returns the same dimensions 200 x 200, but looks larger on the screen. Can someone tell me why? Thanks, MattSA

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Why does saving an image without changing anything in Paint reduce size drastically?

Someone recently suggested that I use MS Paint in my Win 7 machine to reduce file size without reducing image size. I gave it a try. I opened a 137mb tif file that was exported from LR 5 with the Prophoto RGB color profile into MS Paint and immediately saved it as a tif without changing anything to the file. The resulting tif file was only 14.8 mb! The image size was identical to the 137 mb file. Paint did not change the color profile. I opened both files in PS CS6 side by side, extremely zoomed in on areas of the image and could not tell the difference by looking at them on the monitor. There was no banding as usually seen in compressed jpgs. No apparent loss of detail at all. I have been looking online for an explanation for HOW Paint does this and found this relatively old thread. No real answers to be found here but at least the topic is addressed. I can understand compressing a jpg to reduce file size, but not a tif file. My plan is to make extreme crops from both files and have them printed to see what I get. This should be the real test for the MS Paint file size reduction. BTW, I have over 35 years of professional photography experience and look at images very critically.

 

Image size in Paint 3D

Is there a way to see the image size in Paint 3D? Not dimensions, but overall size (e.g. 2MB, 800 kb and so on). In Paint, I can see the size on the bottom edge, but I can't find it in Paint 3D. Sometimes I have to resize an image so it's not over a certain
size, but I can't do it unless the size is displayed somewhere

 

Typing numbers in Paint appear in different sizes.

Hi Maria Teresadel Castillo1,

Thank you for posting your question in the Microsoft Community.

Appreciate your efforts to work on this issue.

• Are you aware of any changes made to the MS paint settings prior to this issue?
  

Follow these steps to check if that helps.

1. Open MS paint.
   
2. In the Home tab, click the Text tool which has the ‘A’ symbol.
   
3. Click inside the blank image, a text box will be displayed inside the blank image, for you to add text or numbers.
   
4. To insert text, type in the text box and click anywhere else on the page when you're done.
   
5. Once you see the text box, you will also see additional options to select the font, font size and other options. You can either select the same font size for all numbers or you can also change the font size for each number as
   you desire.
   

The Text tab opens automatically when you place the text box, and from there you can select a font, text size, color and other options such as bold, underlined, italic and strikethrough text formats. You can also make the text box opaque if you want.

Hope this helps and let us know how it goes.

Regards,

Srimadhwa B

Microsoft Community-Moderator