Banner Art

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

  1. On the Import and arrange your pictures page, click a picture, and then click the Edit button.
  2. On the Rotate and Crop tab, select the Crop check box.

    A rectangle with handles appears on the picture.

  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. When you are done cropping the picture, click Save.
  6. To crop or edit another picture in the story, click the Go to Next Picture button Go to Next Picture button or the Go to Previous Picture button Go to Previous Picture button until you reach the picture you want to edit, and then crop or edit the picture.
  7. Repeat steps 3 through 6 until you have cropped or edited all your pictures the way you want.
  8. When you are done cropping and editing your pictures, click Close to close the Edit Pictures dialog box.

Note image Notes

Related topics


© 2004 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.