logo for digital-camera-tutorials.com
Home
Camera Basics
Photo Albums
Photo Tips
Images on the Net
MS Word
Paint Shop Pro
MS Photo Editor
Photo Story 3
FaceMorpher
Fun with Photos
Contact Me
leftimage for digital-camera-tutorials.com

The Photo Editor free selection tool to crop digital photos

No matter how careful you are, you will need to know how to use Photo Editor free selection tool to crop your digital photos. There will invariably be some content in your photo which you will need to remove to make it more pleasing to the eye. You may have too much background, a part of a building or a person, or other extras to the picture which you want to edit out.

The process of cutting out unwanted parts of a photograph is called cropping. This usually involves selecting a central part of the photograph and deleting the outer part. This is very handy as you will get in the habit of getting extra background when initially taking the photo. This ensures that you will have all the subject matter you need in the knowledge that you can remove the surplus content later.

Click on the video below to see a tutorial on how to crop your digital pictures

When you open a photo, apart from just looking at it, you may want to zoom in on a section of the photo. Here you can get familiar with the Microsoft photo editor zoom function

The photo may need to be rotated so that it can be viewed properly. We need to rotate photos to switch between portrait and landscape orientations. Learn about the photo editors rotate function

You may want to turn it form a colour to a black and white photo. Explore the free photo editors greyscale (black and white) converting functions.

You may wish to edit out some part of the photo which you didn't intend to include. This is called cropping a picture and is an extremely handy skill to have. Here the photo editor free selection tool allows you to cut out parts of a photo.

You need to know how to resize your photos for email and the web. Here is a tutorial on free photo sharing

Home

footer for digital camera tutorials page