Instructions for Resizing Photos
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Microsoft Photo Editor
When you click on a graphic attachment, it may
open in MS Photo Editor. If you wish to crop your photo, select the dotted-line box in the
tool bar near the middle. Then left click on your photo in the upper left-hand corner of
the photo and drag the mouse down and to the right so the dotted line is where you wish to
crop. If you want it larger or smaller -- you can use the mouse to
drag the crop-line where you want it to be. Then select image from the tool bar -- then select crop
and then OK. Bingo -- you should have a cropped photo.
To resize the photo click on Image in the tool
bar -- then resize. When the window pops up, select pixels as the unit... then bring the
width down to 500 pixels or less.
If you select allow distortion, it will only
shrink the image in one direction -- so don't do that. Don't worry about selecting smooth
as opposed to "allow distortion" (I think that is the default).
Generic Terms:
To answer your questions on how to attach a
picture. You'll need a digital camera to take one or a scanner to scan an
existing print, or have your developer put your regular 35 mm film on disc instead of a
print.
You then have to load the picture into the computer
via the scanner, floppy disc, USB port, or COM port , depending on what system you use. If
you are lucky enough to have a Sony Mavica -- just stick the floppy in. Once in the
computer, in the graphics program or image program -- you then have to edit it. Save
all pictures and leave them as unedited copies in your graphics program that you can
always refer back to. Once you have the file you then can edit it . For instance you
can crop out extraneous stuff on the border of the picture to help cut down the size. Next
after cropping you can adjust the contrast or lighting by using that feature in your
graphics program. After you get the picture looking good you can then resize to about 300
or 400 pixels height and width. You can make them bigger if they need to be, but most of
the time 300-400 is fine ( less than 50K in size).
Last step is saving the newly edited picture to a
JPEG file and also compressing it at the same time. These last two steps are done in the
same graphics program. JPEG files are absolutely necessary when posting a picture by
e-mail, bitmaps and TIFs are way too big, and will be bounced if you send them to
yahoogroups.
After editing your picture check to see if the size is now small enough ( less than 50K).
To send the edited picture you compose your e-mail
addressed to metalshapers@yahoogroups.com and then click on the attachment button which opens
the windows file, navigate through the files until you get to your picture of choice, and
then double click on it. You should see the attached file show as an
attachment in your e-mail. Then send the e-mail.
A good idea is to practice this whole process
before sending anything to the group. You can get some practice by just e-mailing yourself
. Place your e-mail address as the recipient and attach the picture and send. That way you
get to see if you have done all the steps correctly. Once you get the steps down it is
very easy to send pictures.
ScanSoft's -- Paperport
Note: Paperport's file format is .max and for our purposes needs to
be converted to jpeg.
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Select scanned image in PaperPort.
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Click on "File" then "Export".
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Go to directory where you want to save the file.
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Select the file format you want the file saved as in pull down
for "Save as type". Suggest JPEG image files (*.JPG)
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Click on Save.
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Adjust for high Compression Quality, say 85% (I used 83% for a 85k file)
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Click OK. File is now saved and can be attached to email.
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Download Paperport viewer for Windows
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