Editing your pictures
You can edit and enhance your pictures in several ways by selecting any of the following options:
- Correct color levels.
- Correct red eye.
- Correct contrast.
- Rotate the picture clockwise or counterclockwise.
- Manually crop the picture.
- Remove black borders and automatically crop the pictures.
- Add effects such as Black and White that change the appearance of the picture.
Note that none of the changes that you make affect the original picture that is stored on your computer, a network folder, or the Internet.
To edit your pictures
- On the Import and arrange your pictures page, click a picture, and then click Edit.
- In the Edit Pictures dialog box, click one of the following tabs to perform the specified task.
Click |
To |
Rotate and Crop |
- Rotate a picture clockwise or counterclockwise.
- Manually crop a picture.
|
Auto Fix |
- Turn on or turn off Correct Contrast.
- Turn on or turn off Correct Color Levels.
- Turn on or turn off Correct Red Eye.
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Add Effect |
- Select an effect.
- Select the check box to apply the selected effect to all of the pictures in your story.*
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*If your story contains a large number of pictures, it may take a few minutes for Photo Story to apply the effect to all of the pictures.
- When you are done editing the picture, click Save.
- To edit another picture in the story, click the Go to Next Picture button
or the Go to Previous Picture button
until you reach the picture you want to edit, and then edit the picture.
- When you are done editing your pictures, click Close to close the Edit Pictures dialog box.
Notes
- You can also edit your pictures by right-clicking a picture in the film strip, pointing to Edit, and then clicking Crop, Rotate, Auto Fix, or Add Effect. In the Edit Pictures dialog box, choose the options that you want.
- To quickly edit a picture by enhancing it, click the picture, and then click the Correct Color Levels button
, Correct Red Eye button
, Rotate Counterclockwise button
, or Rotate Clockwise button
at the bottom of the picture preview area.
- If you do not want to use any of the edits made to a picture while using the Edit Pictures dialog box, click the Reset button to restore the appearance of the original picture. Note that clicking the Reset button discards all edits of the selected picture made on all of the tabs in the Edit Pictures dialog box.
- If you do not want to use any effect after one has been applied to a picture, on the Add Effect tab, in the Effect box, click (none).
- If changing the orientation of a picture is required, you should rotate the image before editing it.
- You can edit your pictures on any page in Photo Story on which the film strip appears by right-clicking a picture, pointing to Edit, and then clicking the option you want.
- Clicking Save in the Edit Pictures dialog box only saves changes made to the selected picture in your story, but does not save the changes in the project. To save changes in a project, click Save Project. For more information about saving your story, see Saving your story.
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