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Cropping Your Pictures
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Use your Microsoft Photo Editor software to crop out unwanted portions of
pictures, or to create a new composition from a portion of an existing
photograph.
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Turn on your computer and wait for windows to
boot. |
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Place the diskette containing your digital
photos in the floppy drive of the computer. |
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Click the start button. |
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From the program list, select "Photo
Editor" |
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Click the "open file" icon. |
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Click the pull-down menu labeled "Look in:". |
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Double-click the "3 1/2 Floppy (A:)"
icon. |
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Review the list of file names and double click
the name of the picture that you would like to edit |
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The file will open in the Photo Editor window.
Now you need to decide the nature of the crop
job. Do you want to trim unneeded portions of the photo or do you
want to use a portion of the photo as a stand-alone image? We will
demonstrate both techniques using the "formal_garden.jpg"
photo.
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Click the "Select"
tool and drag around a portion of the picture, trimming away unwanted
portions. In the picture to the right, you can barely see the dotted
"crop lines" encompassing a rectangular portion of the picture.
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Select "image" from the tool bar. |
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Select "Crop"
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Click "Ok" |
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As you can see from this
close-up, the resulting photo emphasizes the garden, and no longer
includes distracting background imagery.
Now, what if we are only interested in a small
portion of the picture?
Again, we will use the crop tool just as before,
only this time more creatively. |
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As before, Click the
"Select" tool and drag around a portion of the picture, trimming
away unwanted portions. This time we focus on the main statue. |
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Select "image" from the tool bar. |
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Select "Crop"
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Click "Ok"
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With a little re-sizing we
end up with this image. |
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Click "Save As..." |
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In the "File name" pane, type a new name
so that you don't overwrite the original uncropped photo.which includes the new picture size, then click "Save". |
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You can now exit Photo Editor by clicking the "X"
in the uppermost right-hand corner of the screen. |
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