Crop Images With Microsoft Paint

hi there

Well generally we use some apllications such as microsoft office picture manager or microsoft picture and fax viewer. but if some one tells you that you can crop any image with the help of microsoft paint. yes it's unusual but you can crop it with the help of microsoft paint application.

The below provided tip will explain you the steps of how to crop an image using Microsoft Paint which usually is available in Windows XP. Cropping means to modify an image by edditing parts of the image which you don't want. This will help you for people that upload their images as attachments with their signatures.

Steps To Crop Image With Microsoft Paint:

In order to Crop an image with Microsoft Paint is a bit tricky as they are not having an in-built crop tool.

Check these steps for cropping an image:

1. Click Start
2. Go to run otion and type mspaint
3. OR Else
4. Go to Start Menu and click All Programs.
5. Then Accessories and select paint option.
6. Then inside the menu, click on Image, Attributes and try to change both Width and Height to 10 which will help you to make the blank image very tiny.
7. Then close Paint window and do not save the blank image as it will keep the default size 10x10 size for new images opened in this from now on.
8. Search for your file and and open with Paint.
9. Select the tool on the which is on the top right of the toolbar which is just like a dotted rectangle and is named to be Select.
10. Then Click on it and drag a box around the image which you wish to have. This will originally act as if you are using crop selection tool.
11. Then from the menu, click on Edit, and then Copy.
12. Then from the menu, click on File option, select new which should be a blank 10x10 resolution white image.
13. In the menu, click on Edit, and then Paste which will now be the actual size of the copied image by you.
14. You can save your newly cropped image in JPEG format.

so how was the trick. I know many people don't know about this kind of stuff. so for all of you this trick will work wonders. Please post your view on this and keep visiting as i will post some more on such easy and unknown tips regarding windows.

I just wanted to say thanks for posting this tip, it has helped me enormously. :thumbup1: