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Digital Photo Guide
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Tutorial
Cropping Your Pictures
Most of us, when we take digital pictures, end up with what we want in the middle, with lots of extra background etc. To show the pictures at their best, we want to get rid of this extra, but as each picture is different, we need to do this for each picture individually.
It's important we do this before we resize for the web, or we'll end up with pics too small.
Start up Irfanview, and open the first image. If the image is too big for the screen, click view/display options/fit image to window, as here;
I am using a picture I took of Bob the Dog, that has a lot I don't want. Now look at the picture, and decide what you want to keep.
Place the cursor in one corner, and holding down the left button, pull the cursor to the opposite corner. You should now have a box on the picture that looks like this; Note, you can move any of the outlines, by placing your cursor on it, and dragging it to where you want.
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