Cropping your pictures
You can edit your pictures by cropping the picture to keep only the portion that you want to use. Photo Story automatically adjusts the width or height to maintain a 4:3 aspect ratio for the picture.
Note that if you use a very small area of the picture or crop out everything except for a very small area of a picture, the resulting picture may be blurry.
To crop a picture
- On the Import and arrange your pictures page, click a picture, and then click the Edit button.
- On the Rotate and Crop tab, select the Crop check box.
A rectangle with handles appears on the picture.
- To resize the rectangle, point to a side or corner of the rectangle. When the cursor changes into a double-headed arrow, drag the handle.
- To move the whole rectangle, point to the center of the rectangle. When the cursor changes into a four-headed arrow, drag the rectangle to the area of the picture you want to keep.
- When you are done cropping the picture, click Save.
- To crop or 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 crop or edit the picture.
- Repeat steps 3 through 6 until you have cropped or edited all your pictures the way you want.
- When you are done cropping and editing your pictures, click Close to close the Edit Pictures dialog box.
Notes
- You can also crop your pictures by right-clicking a picture in the film strip, pointing to Edit, and then clicking Crop. Then follow the steps in the preceding procedure.
- Cropping a picture does not affect the original picture that is stored on your computer, a network folder, or the Internet.
- Clearing the Crop check box removes the cropping for the selected picture.
- Clicking the Reset button in the Edit Pictures dialog box discards all edits of the selected picture made on all of the tabs in the Edit Pictures dialog box.
- If changing the orientation of a picture is required, you should rotate the image before cropping 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.
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