• Drawing straight lines and ‘freehand’ lines;
• Drawing regular pre-defined shapes like squares, rectangles and circles using a special ‘tool’;
• Entering text and changing the style and size of font;
• Changing the size of an object, or scaling;
• Rotating objects in either clockwise or anticlockwise by specifying the direction and angle of rotation;
• Stretching objects either horizontally or vertically. ‘Flipping’ an object either horizontally or vertically.

A paint palette from which different colours and patterns can be chosen.

A fill option for colouring in a shape or area on the screen with a colour or pattern from the paint palette.

Most graphics packages have a built-in library of clipart pictures.

Zoom or magnify is a feature that allows an area of the screen to be seen close up for detailed work.

Special brushes such as an airbrush can be used to achieve different paint effects on the screen.

In most graphics these features are chosen from a toolbar or tool palette where they are displayed as icons.

Exporting is a special way of saving a file produced using a graphics package so that it can be used in another application package.

When an exported file is needed in another application it is opened in a special way called importing.