MS Paint or Microsoft Paint is a simple and easy to use computer graphics program that comes with all the versions of Microsoft Windows. Formerly known by Paintbrush for Windows. It is often referred to just as Paint. MS Paint provides a large number of basic operations like adding text to a image, creating background for a image, creating pixel based images, and a lot more. In this post I will explain how you can crop and resize a image in Paint.
Step 2 : Crop tool is the default selected tool when you open up paint. Selection shape is set to "Rectangular selection" which is used most often. But their is one more selection shape known as "Free-form selection", it allows you to freely draw an area of any shape and clip it from the image. Click on "Select" present beside selected Crop tool to change the selection shape. It also have Selection options, out of all the selection options "Invert selection" is most important. It is used to when you don't want to include a selected region of an image.
Step 3 : When you draw the Rectangular selection box to select a portion of image its size appear in the bottom bar of Paint this can be used to create selection box of a fixed size.
Step 4 : After making the selection press "Ctrl + C" to copy the selection area. Open one more Paint application (Go to start and type paint). In the new paint window press "Ctrl + V" to paste the Selection. Now press "Ctrl + S" to open up the save dialogue box.
Opening an Image in MS Paint
Go to the location where the image you want to crop or resize/scale is stored. Right click on the image and select "Open with" and click on "Paint". This will open up your image in MS Paint.Steps To Crop an Image
Step 1 : Use the zoom ratio present at the bottom left corner to control the display size of the image.Step 2 : Crop tool is the default selected tool when you open up paint. Selection shape is set to "Rectangular selection" which is used most often. But their is one more selection shape known as "Free-form selection", it allows you to freely draw an area of any shape and clip it from the image. Click on "Select" present beside selected Crop tool to change the selection shape. It also have Selection options, out of all the selection options "Invert selection" is most important. It is used to when you don't want to include a selected region of an image.
Step 3 : When you draw the Rectangular selection box to select a portion of image its size appear in the bottom bar of Paint this can be used to create selection box of a fixed size.
Step 4 : After making the selection press "Ctrl + C" to copy the selection area. Open one more Paint application (Go to start and type paint). In the new paint window press "Ctrl + V" to paste the Selection. Now press "Ctrl + S" to open up the save dialogue box.
Resize / Scale an Image in MS Paint
Step 1 : Select the "Resize" option from the Home tab of the Paint. This will open up the "Resize and Skew" option box.
Step 2 : Now if know the pixel size ( H x V ) to which you want to scale the image enter the H and V value in Horizontal and Vertical box respectively and click on OK to resize the image. You can also use "Percentage" option to resize the image, most commonly used percentage ratio are 75%, 50%, 30%, and 200%. Skew is used to add slanting effect to the image.
Step 2 : Now if know the pixel size ( H x V ) to which you want to scale the image enter the H and V value in Horizontal and Vertical box respectively and click on OK to resize the image. You can also use "Percentage" option to resize the image, most commonly used percentage ratio are 75%, 50%, 30%, and 200%. Skew is used to add slanting effect to the image.
I'm on the fence about this, while more customization is good, I have a feeling this is a "in-progress" update, it just feels incomplete and half-way there.
ReplyDeleteWe use badge layout for apps on design approvals (visual projects), so the image being displayed is important. Old layout "feels like" it had larger images,
maybe because the images were cropped more loosely so it's easier to tell which project it was at quick glance. Now the image is cropped closer, making it
harder to scan thru at quick glance. I find myself needing to click into the project more often than usual. Which makes the whole user experience less
efficient.
I have a couple suggestions that might make it work better:
1. Increase the height of the window the cover image is being displayed.
2. Let us to choose which image to be displayed as "cover" (like how Pinterest handles cover images of each board, was hoping for this for a long time)
3. Let us adjust which part of the image to show and how tight or loose the crop is (with a fixed window, let us move the image around and maybe enlarge or
shrink it to control what shows thru the window. Pinterest does a limited form of this, which is very useful in making the cover image relevant)
4. Allow Cover Image to be ordered in different hierarchy (currently every element can be ordered differently except the Cover Image, it seems to be stuck
in the 2nd spot, would like the option to set it on another spot in the layout. This one seems like an easy fix, since you guys allow that for every other
element already)
I'm on the fence about this, while more customization is good, I have a feeling this is a "in-progress" update, it just feels incomplete and half-way there.
ReplyDeleteWe use badge layout for apps on design approvals (visual projects), so the image being displayed is important. Old layout "feels like" it had larger images,
maybe because the images were cropped more loosely so it's easier to tell which project it was at quick glance. Now the image is cropped closer, making it
harder to scan thru at quick glance. I find myself needing to click into the project more often than usual. Which makes the whole user experience less
efficient.
I have a couple suggestions that might make it work better:
1. Increase the height of the window the cover image is being displayed.
2. Let us to choose which image to be displayed as "cover" (like how Pinterest handles cover images of each board, was hoping for this for a long time)
3. Let us adjust which part of the image to show and how tight or loose the crop is (with a fixed window, let us move the image around and maybe enlarge or
shrink it to control what shows thru the window. Pinterest does a limited form of this, which is very useful in making the cover image relevant)
4. Allow Cover Image to be ordered in different hierarchy (currently every element can be ordered differently except the Cover Image, it seems to be stuck
in the 2nd spot, would like the option to set it on another spot in the layout. This one seems like an easy fix, since you guys allow that for every other
element already)
I'm on the fence about this, while more customization is good, I have a feeling this is a "in-progress" update, it just feels incomplete and half-way there.
ReplyDeleteWe use badge layout for apps on design approvals (visual projects), so the image being displayed is important. Old layout "feels like" it had larger images,
maybe because the images were cropped more loosely so it's easier to tell which project it was at quick glance. Now the image is cropped closer, making it
harder to scan thru at quick glance. I find myself needing to click into the project more often than usual. Which makes the whole user experience less
efficient.
I have a couple suggestions that might make it work better:
1. Increase the height of the window the cover image is being displayed.
2. Let us to choose which image to be displayed as "cover" (like how Pinterest handles cover images of each board, was hoping for this for a long time)
3. Let us adjust which part of the image to show and how tight or loose the crop is (with a fixed window, let us move the image around and maybe enlarge or
shrink it to control what shows thru the window. Pinterest does a limited form of this, which is very useful in making the cover image relevant)
4. Allow Cover Image to be ordered in different hierarchy (currently every element can be ordered differently except the Cover Image, it seems to be stuck
in the 2nd spot, would like the option to set it on another spot in the layout. This one seems like an easy fix, since you guys allow that for every other
element already)
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ReplyDeleteI'm on the fence about this, while more customization is good, I have a feeling this is a "in-progress" update, it just feels incomplete and half-way there.
ReplyDeleteWe use badge layout for apps on design approvals (visual projects), so the image being displayed is important. Old layout "feels like" it had larger images,
maybe because the images were cropped more loosely so it's easier to tell which project it was at quick glance. Now the image is cropped closer, making it
harder to scan thru at quick glance. I find myself needing to click into the project more often than usual. Which makes the whole user experience less
efficient.
I have a couple suggestions that might make it work better:
1. Increase the height of the window the cover image is being displayed.
2. Let us to choose which image to be displayed as "cover" (like how Pinterest handles cover images of each board, was hoping for this for a long time)
3. Let us adjust which part of the image to show and how tight or loose the crop is (with a fixed window, let us move the image around and maybe enlarge or
shrink it to control what shows thru the window. Pinterest does a limited form of this, which is very useful in making the cover image relevant)
4. Allow Cover Image to be ordered in different hierarchy (currently every element can be ordered differently except the Cover Image, it seems to be stuck
in the 2nd spot, would like the option to set it on another spot in the layout. This one seems like an easy fix, since you guys allow that for every other
element already)