[or-roots] cropping photos

[Leslie Chapman]

Okay Diane, I will try and give you an elementry lesson in image management
as I call it on my system or fussin with photos for those who prefer to
speak english.

Someone said you have Win 98 rather than XP, if that is greek to you what it
is about is the software that makes your computer not do what you want it to
when you try to tell it to because it is written by pointy headed geeks who
speak in dialogy involving weird terms like function paramater and class
object and yada yada and they never use a nickel word where a silver dollar
one will do. And so they have to try and program six ways to do everything
your program needs to do in order to enable it to get confused everytime you
try to tell it to do anything.

So somewhere on your desktop (which is what some idiot thought you should
call what is on your screen when no programs are running) you should have a
button labled "start" which when you click on it should bring up a dialogue
box (thats what us geeks call those funny small windows with buttons and so
forth in them that never have the command you need) which will include the
line "programs", that is where you need to go to look for you graphics/image
management/ photo (whatever you want to call it) program.

There are a lot of good ones and dollars to donuts one came with your
scanner, I think I got MGI photo suite with one scanner and Adobe Photo shop
LE with the other one, I also have KAI Photo soap, Ulead Photo express,
Painter 5, Picture Publisher that I know of, but I prefer Adobe unless I
need to open something it doesn't then I usually use Paint which is the next
thing I want to get to. If you pull up your  programs menu and none of the
above or something like them shows up, you then need to go to the top of the
menu that comes when you hold you cursor over Programs to the line labled
"Accessories" and hold the cursor over that and you should see something
called paint. Clikc on that or whatever program you have and open it and
there should be somewhere at the top of the program something like "Edit" or
whatever, but first I am going to address cropping in Paint. In paint:

To change the size of your picture

On the Image menu, click Attributes.
Click the unit of measurement you want to use for the width and height.
Type the measurements in Width and Height.

Notes

You can also resize your picture by dragging the three image resize handles,
located at the bottom right corner and along the bottom and right sides of
your picture.
If your current picture is bigger than the new size, the picture is cut from
the right side and bottom to fit within the smaller area. If your current
picture is smaller than the new size, the extra area is filled with the
selected background color.
You can undo up to three changes by clicking the Edit menu and then clicking
Undo for each change.

quite frankly I hope you have something else, cropping in paint is a
nightmare, you can only crop the bottom and right sides so to crop an image
all the way around you would have to crop those sides and then flip the
image and crop the other two sides.

In MGI you may have some trouble finding the right screen but when you do it
is self explanatory and quite easy.

If you can find a photo program and still need help drop me a note and I
will see if I can psych it out for you.

Les C




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