MS Paint cropping

brent · Very bored Joined: 13 Sep 2005 Posts: 161 Location: USEast

[quote="Fayore (Wilhelm)"] Too bad you didn't crop it properly.

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...I believe. :> [/quote]
i can't crop it right... because all i have on my home comp is paint! (everyone points and laughs)
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Stratadrake · Posted: Fri Mar 17, 2006 10:14 pm Post subject:

It [i]is[/i] possible to crop an image in MS Paint, you just have to be creative in how you do it.

1 - Make sure you're viewing the upper-left area of the image.
2 - Hit Ctrl+A to select the entire image.
3 - Click and drag the image up and to the left, until you've moved all empty space off of the border. Then click on the rectangular select (or any other) tool to un-select the image. Voil! The top and lefthand edges are now cropped.
4 - But you're not done yet. Locate the lower-right portion of your drawing with your mouse, so that the entire subject/character/etc. is up and to the left of the mouse. Write down or memorize the coordinates of this location (shown in the lower-right area of Paint's screen).
5 - Hit Ctrl+E, and type those coordinates in as your image size. ([i]Or[/i], locate the image's lower-right corner handle, click and drag it to trim off empty space from the bottom and right edges)
6 - Voil! Righthand and bottom borders cropped.
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EN1X · Site Helper Joined: 27 Sep 2004 Posts: 764

Poor excuse. XD You can still do thingswith paint and still have it look decent.

Fayore · Moderator Joined: 12 Mar 2004 Posts: 6195

[quote="Stratadrake (Strata)"] ([i]Or[/i], locate the image's lower-right corner handle, click and drag it to trim off empty space from the bottom and right edges)
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This is less work and therefore greater than steps 4/5. 8D
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KeheiZero · Posted: Sat Mar 18, 2006 12:54 pm Post subject:

[quote="EN1X ()"] Poor excuse. XD You can still do thingswith paint and still have it look decent. [/quote]
To be honest, I crop everything in Paint. No idea, why, got better things to do it with.
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Fayore · Moderator Joined: 12 Mar 2004 Posts: 6195

[quote="KeheiZero (Craig)"] [quote="EN1X ()"] Poor excuse. XD You can still do thingswith paint and still have it look decent. [/quote]
To be honest, I crop everything in Paint. No idea, why, got better things to do it with. [/quote]
Me too. It's because I'm too lazy to load up something else for something like mere cropping (although I have a strange suspicion that PSP7 loads faster than MSP on my computer...).
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Touzoku-joou · Oldbie Joined: 30 Oct 2004 Posts: 2399 Location: interweb

[quote="Fayore (Wilhelm)"] [quote="KeheiZero (Craig)"] [quote="EN1X ()"] Poor excuse. XD You can still do thingswith paint and still have it look decent. [/quote]
To be honest, I crop everything in Paint. No idea, why, got better things to do it with. [/quote]
Me too. It's because I'm too lazy to load up something else for something like mere cropping (although I have a strange suspicion that PSP7 loads faster than MSP on my computer...). [/quote]
I use Microsoft Image Editor. Very Happy

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Stratadrake · Posted: Sun Mar 19, 2006 3:44 pm Post subject:

Let's keep the Paint discussion separate from the kiriban topic, shall we?

*grabs scissors and slices topic in half*

There. Smile

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unfocused · Moderator Joined: 17 Jul 2004 Posts: 6983 Location: Texas

I use mspaint to crop everything. its the perfect tool. anyone who would laugh at that is fooling themselves. i'm sure there's more out there, but why fix something that isnt broken?
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brent · Very bored Joined: 13 Sep 2005 Posts: 161 Location: USEast

i found out another way

first, select the area you want to keep
next, right-click and click copy
then, click new and paste your image.

cropped. thank you for the help tho!
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Stratadrake · Posted: Wed Mar 22, 2006 8:30 am Post subject:

That only works if the new image size is smaller than the area you select, otherwise you'll still have empty space left over.

More specifically:
- Use rectangular select to highlight the area you wish to keep.
- Copy it to the Clipboard (Ctrl+C or Edit > Copy)
- Hit Ctrl+E (Image > Attributes), type in "1" and "1" for your image's dimensions (Width and Height).
- Paste from Clipboard (Ctrl+V or Edit > Paste).
- MS Paint asks you if you want the area enlarged to fit the pasted area, click Yes.
- Cropped.
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jkgoomba89 · Very bored Joined: 05 Mar 2006 Posts: 145

[quote="brent (Tyler Nelson)"] [quote="Fayore (Wilhelm)"] Too bad you didn't crop it properly.

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...I believe. :> [/quote]
i can't crop it right... because all i have on my home comp is paint! (everyone points and laughs) [/quote]
Use Hp image zone plus if you have it on your comp, it makes it easier to crop than paint.
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LefseNinja · Posted: Wed Mar 22, 2006 9:44 am Post subject:

Hey, I have that!

But Photoshop>HP Imagezone.

jkgoomba89 · Very bored Joined: 05 Mar 2006 Posts: 145

I don't have photoshop.
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ErdeKaiser · Posted: Fri Mar 24, 2006 12:37 pm Post subject:

Don't use paint that much so i didn't know this...........i've used it a few......uh days or weeks ago though
I think it was weeks.
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