Post by scruffy1nz on Jun 6, 2007 15:27:00 GMT 12
Quick Photo Editing Using Basic Window Tools
So you just took a lot of good photo’s and now you see part of
a photo you want to share or use in another program.
Ok Today I will show you how to quickly take a part of a picture
or photo, you have on your computer for adding to another document or
emailing, using Microsoft paint which is included with all versions of windows.
As an Example I am going to edit the sygate.jpg picture that is in My Pictures below
First we open My Pictures like this
And browse for the picture we want to edit
Then right click on the picture we want to use.
“Note right click is the right button on the mouse”
You will notice in the picture below I have right clicked the sygate.jpg file as this is still
highlighted and this brings up the menu you see with “open and edit” the top two options.
The edit option is the one we want to be selecting, so do this now. This will open paint normally, unless
you have installed a different program on your computer, and if so use this program most steps may
be similar but this is in no way guaranteed, you can use the “open with” to tell it to open it with paint, just
click on the open with and select paint.
And you should see this on your screen now, but with the picture that you have chosen in the program.
Now your picture might be a person an object or just any part of the photo that you want to
use, so to do this we need to use the selection tool so we click on this icon here
Now once we have done that, we select the area we want to use like this, I am selecting the
traffic window for the incoming and outgoing to email to my internet service provider as proof
that the usage on my connection is not matching what they are saying I am using, (of course
I would be adding a lot more samples if I was really doing this).
I started by clicking on the start of the area I wanted and while holding the left mouse button down
I moved the mouse to the other end of the area I wanted until all of the area is inside the selection
area marked by the little lines around the traffic area in the sygate picture above. When I was happy
that all the detail I wanted was in, I let go of the left mouse button. Next we go to the menu at the
top and click on edit like so
We then select copy, as we don’t want to change the original photo, we just want to copy a part
of it. If you select cut, it will cut that piece out of the photo, and you will have to click on the Undo
button or the photo could stay like that, and you might not be happy with that. We then select
the File menu that’s beside the edit we just used and click on new, a window will pop up asking
if you want to save the photo, at which you say no, and you have a new blank picture background
to play with.
Next You then go back to the edit menu we used not long ago, and select paste this time.
This puts the selection we just copied into the new picture background like this.
To remove the white space around the new photo we click outside the photo on the
whitespace and then a few little dots became available.
If we move our mouse cursor over these, we can move the edges of the photo in closer
to the actual photo. Like so
Until we get this.
Now all we have to do is save this new picture or photo so click on file again and select
save, and this window below will come up.
Now type a name for the picture in the file name area where it says untitled, next
click on the little downward arrow in the save as type area and make sure jpeg is
selected, then click the save button.
I saved my picture as “save new pic”. Now I can go into My Pictures and use
my new photo, called “save new pic.jpg”. As in here
Now you can send this by email or add it into any document you want to.
Thanks you for bearing with me over this lesson, and I hope you enjoyed it, note
once you have done this a couple of times, you will be able to do it in a couple
of minutes, while reading this may make it seem like it could take hours of your life away.
8)
So you just took a lot of good photo’s and now you see part of
a photo you want to share or use in another program.
Ok Today I will show you how to quickly take a part of a picture
or photo, you have on your computer for adding to another document or
emailing, using Microsoft paint which is included with all versions of windows.
As an Example I am going to edit the sygate.jpg picture that is in My Pictures below
First we open My Pictures like this
And browse for the picture we want to edit
Then right click on the picture we want to use.
“Note right click is the right button on the mouse”
You will notice in the picture below I have right clicked the sygate.jpg file as this is still
highlighted and this brings up the menu you see with “open and edit” the top two options.
The edit option is the one we want to be selecting, so do this now. This will open paint normally, unless
you have installed a different program on your computer, and if so use this program most steps may
be similar but this is in no way guaranteed, you can use the “open with” to tell it to open it with paint, just
click on the open with and select paint.
And you should see this on your screen now, but with the picture that you have chosen in the program.
Now your picture might be a person an object or just any part of the photo that you want to
use, so to do this we need to use the selection tool so we click on this icon here
Now once we have done that, we select the area we want to use like this, I am selecting the
traffic window for the incoming and outgoing to email to my internet service provider as proof
that the usage on my connection is not matching what they are saying I am using, (of course
I would be adding a lot more samples if I was really doing this).
I started by clicking on the start of the area I wanted and while holding the left mouse button down
I moved the mouse to the other end of the area I wanted until all of the area is inside the selection
area marked by the little lines around the traffic area in the sygate picture above. When I was happy
that all the detail I wanted was in, I let go of the left mouse button. Next we go to the menu at the
top and click on edit like so
We then select copy, as we don’t want to change the original photo, we just want to copy a part
of it. If you select cut, it will cut that piece out of the photo, and you will have to click on the Undo
button or the photo could stay like that, and you might not be happy with that. We then select
the File menu that’s beside the edit we just used and click on new, a window will pop up asking
if you want to save the photo, at which you say no, and you have a new blank picture background
to play with.
Next You then go back to the edit menu we used not long ago, and select paste this time.
This puts the selection we just copied into the new picture background like this.
To remove the white space around the new photo we click outside the photo on the
whitespace and then a few little dots became available.
If we move our mouse cursor over these, we can move the edges of the photo in closer
to the actual photo. Like so
Until we get this.
Now all we have to do is save this new picture or photo so click on file again and select
save, and this window below will come up.
Now type a name for the picture in the file name area where it says untitled, next
click on the little downward arrow in the save as type area and make sure jpeg is
selected, then click the save button.
I saved my picture as “save new pic”. Now I can go into My Pictures and use
my new photo, called “save new pic.jpg”. As in here
Now you can send this by email or add it into any document you want to.
Thanks you for bearing with me over this lesson, and I hope you enjoyed it, note
once you have done this a couple of times, you will be able to do it in a couple
of minutes, while reading this may make it seem like it could take hours of your life away.
8)
Thanks for that Scruffy1, when I have some time to relax I'll be sure to have aplay with that. How are you today?
