Paint is any liquid, liquefiable, or mastic composition that, after application to a substrate in a thin layer, converts to a solid film. It is most commonly used to protect, color, or provide texture to objects. Paint can be made or purchased in many colors—and in many different types, such as watercolor, synthetic, etc. Paint is typically stored, sold, and applied as a liquid, but most types dry into a solid.

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In 2011, South African archeologists reported finding a 100,000-year-old human-made ochre-based mixture that could have been used like paint.Cave paintings drawn with red or yellow ochre, hematite, manganese oxide, and charcoal may have been made by early Homo sapiens as long as 40,000 years ago.

Ancient colored walls at Dendera, Egypt, which were exposed for years to the elements, still possess their brilliant color, as vivid as when they were painted about 2,000 years ago. The Egyptians mixed their colors with a gummy substance, and applied them separately from each other without any blending or mixture. They appear to have used six colors: white, black, blue, red, yellow, and green. They first covered the area entirely with white, then traced the design in black, leaving out the lights of the ground color. They used minium for red, and generally of a dark tinge.

Paint (formerly Paintbrush for Windows) is a simple computer graphics program that has been included with all versions of Microsoft Windows. It is often referred to as MS Paint or Microsoft Paint. The program mainly opens and saves files as Windows bitmap (24-bit, 256 color, 16 color, and monochrome, all with the .bmp extension), JPEG, GIF (without animation or transparency, although the Windows 98 version, a Windows 95 upgrade, and the Windows NT4 version did support the latter), PNG (without alpha channel), and single-page TIFF. The program can be in color mode or two-color black-and-white, but there is no grayscale mode. For its simplicity, it rapidly became one of the most used applications in the early versions of Windows—introducing many to painting on a computer for the first time—and is still widely used for very simple image manipulation tasks.

History

Initial versions

The first version of Paint was introduced with the first version of Windows, Windows 1.0, in November 1985. It was a licensed version of ZSoft Corporation's PC Paintbrush, and supported only 1-bit monochrome graphics under a proprietary "MSP" format. This version was later superseded by Paintbrush in Windows 3.0, with a redesigned user interface, color support and support for the BMP and PCX file formats.

Paint is a pigmented liquid or paste used to apply color to a surface, often by artists.

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Gargamel! is an American rock band from Orlando, Florida. Their music has its foundations in funk metal, but this is frequently combined with widely divergent styles, often to comic effect. Gargamel! is always spelled with an exclamation point.

Band history

The band Gargamel! has been touring the south (primarily Florida, Georgia and Carolinas) for over 15 years. They have been featured on numerous indie films and compilations. During that time they released 4 studio CD's and 2 live DVD's. Gargamel! won the Orlando Music Award for Best hard/Edge Band every year it was awarded and are consistently at the top of the Best Metal category in the Orlando Weekly's annual "Best of Orlando" feature. Gargamel! have played shows with such National acts as Anthrax, GWAR, Tub Ring, Nonpoint, Dog Fashion Disco, Bad Acid Trip, Mushroomhead and many others. They are also annual featured performers at many of Orlando's major Horror Movie/Sci-Fi conventions such as Screamfest and TachyceCon.

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In the world of The Smurfs, Gargamel the Evil Wizard is the sworn enemy of the Smurfs and always tries to capture them. He is the main antagonist in the show and comic books. His main goal in life is to destroy the Smurfs or to capture enough of them to create a potion to turn base matter into gold.

Actors

Gargamel is voiced by Paul Winchell in the English version of the cartoon, Philippe Dumat in the French version,Esteban Siller in the Spanish version, Orlando Drummond in the Brazilian version, Paul van Gorcum in the Dutch version, Josip Marotti in the Croatian version, Kurt Goldstein in the German version, Péter Haumann in the Hungarian version (where he is named Hókuszpók, a wordplay on "hocus pocus", "pók" also meaning spider), Gastone Pescucci, Claudio Sorrentino and Paolo Buglioni in the Italian version, Wiesław Drzewicz and Mirosław Wieprzewski in the Polish version and Steve Kratz in the Swedish version, Itsik Saidoff in the Israeli Hebrew version and Þórhallur Sigurðsson in the Icelandic version. In the Icelandic version he is called Kjartan. He is played by Hank Azaria in the live-action film series. He will be voiced by Rainn Wilson in the upcoming 2017 Smurfs film.

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