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Microsoft
Photo Editor can be used to rotate, crop, resize, lighten, change
resolution, change file format of images and more.
Rotate
an Image
- Open Microsoft Photo
Editor
- From the File menu
(or open icon), choose Open. Navigate to where you have your
photos or images stored. Click on the one you want to open.
- Click on the Rotate
tool in the Toolbar
- Click the Rotate
tool until your image rotates to desired direction.
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Crop
an Image
- Open Microsoft Photo
Editor
- From the File menu
(or open icon), choose Open. Navigate to where you have your
photos or images stored. Click on the one you want to open.
- Select the SELECT
tool from the Toolbar
- Click and drag to
draw a selection rectange around the image you want to keep.
- From the Image menu,
choose CROP
- Select either rectangle or oval
- You can also select whether to round corners
- When you have made the selections you need, click OK.
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Resize
an Image - you
can resize an image BUT REMEMBER, if you have a small image and
you want to resize larger, the image may become pixelated or distorted
because the resolution is too low to allow for resize. It's much
better to have a large image that you resize smaller than to try
to make a small image larger.
- Open Microsoft Photo
Editor
- From the File menu
(or open icon), choose Open. Navigate to where you have your
photos or images stored. Click on the one you want to open.
- From the
Image menu, choose Resize
- You
can enter width & height numbers or you can use percentages
to resize. You can also select which unit of measurement
to use - inches, centimeters or pixels.
- Do
NOT check Allow distortion unless that is what you want.
If you leave it blank, you can type in a number in the width
and have it auto calculate what the height should be without
distoring the image.
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Change
the Resolution of an Image - Resolution is the number of pixels
in an image. A higher number correlated to a higher quality of image.
Sometimes you want to decrease the resolution of an image
to lower the file size. REMEMBER, you can decrease the number of
pixels in an image but you can't always increase pixels without
distortion or pixelation.
- Open Microsoft Photo
Editor
- From the File menu
(or open icon), choose Open. Navigate to where you have your
photos or images stored. Click on the one you want to open.
- From the
File menu, choose Properties
- Resolution
will be listed. If it says 300, you can drop that to 150 and
still print the photo. If you drop the resolution to 72, this
photo can be used to display on monitor or projector in PowerPoint
or on the web. The photo will not print very sharp at this resolution.
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Change
the File Format of an Image - There are different file formats
for an image, i.e., JPEG, GIF, TIFF, BMP, and many more. JPEG
is the one most used for photographs, GIF is the one most used
for line art or clipart. You will want to use TIFF if you want
to have a transparent background.
- Open Microsoft Photo
Editor
- From the File menu
(or open icon), choose Open. Navigate to where you have your
photos or images stored. Click on the one you want to open.
- From the
File menu, choose SaveAs.
- In the
SaveAs dialog box, you can change the file format in the Save
as Type box.
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Set
Transparent Color or Background - You will want to save your
image as TIFF if you want to have a transparent background.
- Open Microsoft Photo
Editor
- From the File menu
(or open icon), choose Open. Navigate to where you have your
photos or images stored. Click on the one you want to open.
- Select
the Set Transparent Color icon in Toolbar
- Your mouse
pointer should now look like the Tool icon
- Click on
the color you want to select to have a transparent background
(example: white around a picture or image).
- Your
Change Color to Transparent dialog box opens.
- Set
the color similarity to far left if you only want the color
you selected to be changed.
- Click
OK
- Where
your image had white around the edges, it will now look
like a checkerboard. That means it has a transparent background.
You can now insert this in a PowerPoint presentation that
has a color design and you won't see the white edges around
your photo.
- Click SaveAs
- Change
the Save as type box to: Tag Image File Format (*.tif).
- If
you click the Save command, you may receive a message that
says "This format does not suport transparency. Click
Yes or No. You want to click NO
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