How to "Cut" parts of image away.

Hi people. I have had this problem for a little while. When I have a picture, sometimes I have to resize it or take away certain parts of it but I don't know how. At the moment all I do is open paint, select the image in question and cover what Ii don't need with white. The result is that the image has a(usualy large) white border around it. How do I 'cut' out this border? I have Windows Paint, Microsoft Picture It! Photo 2002 and Photoshop 7. I'd preferable know how to do it in Paint and Microsoft Picture It! please.

Thanks, Darryl

 

Paint is not a good application to use if you want to do much editing.

For most simple tasks such as cropping (removing parts you don't want), resizing, adding text, and similar you would probably do well with the free Irfanview program. Been around for years and is rock solid with fairly frequent updates.

 

Crop!! bleep CROP!! Jeez, I didn't know it was that, all this time I have been looking at that and thinking "What the bleep is crop? ". Thanks alot newt!

Note: I've removed some of the more colorful phrases from this thread. Newt

 

enrique86--Yes, Irfanview is great, but even in lowly MSPaint, you can "Cut" a part of the image. In the left margin you click the box looking like a dotted line rectangle. That changes your cursor to an outlining cross. Using that, define what you want to Cut, click Edit and you have two choices what to do with the outlined area (Cut or Copy). Similar in Irfanview, but I think you may have more choices what to do with the outlined area.

 

Thanks for the reply Welshjim. Now I know how to do it in Paint and Microsoft Picture It! Brilliant!

 

Go HERE and scroll down the right column to get an image resizer. You just right click on the image and resize it. Never mind opening it to a program and then resize and then save as and then....

 

Oops. I guess I haven't solved the problem. Still, I can change the size of the image I want, or I can cut out other parts. Woohoo! Problem is them bleep white boreders are still there. Lets say I have a picture of umm... a pink tree and a green tree together, side by side, in front of a mountain and I wanted the green tree. What i'd do is crop, cut out green tree, and what'd be left would be just the green tree (good), but, the rest of the image would have turned white (bad, plus bleep me off).

Please help, there's gotta be a simple answer.

 

I use the freeware Irfanview. No Windows computer should be without it. What is does for graphics is like trying to explain what a Cuisinart does for food. It does a lot of things.

It is the only program I allow to be default anything. It is my default graphics viewer for all graphics. All graphics open to Irfanview.

To crop, I just double click on the image and outline the area I want to crop. I can have the area I outlined saved or deleted. I "SAVE AS" what I have cropped.

The original is intact.

 

I am surprised admin has not tried to subdue this poster's raucousness.
regards

 

Done merlin and thanks for pointing it out. Guess I been frequenting rowdy forums too much lately and just plain didn't notice.

 

It really is coming to something when you can't even use the word "Bloody ". And raucousness, don't be absurd.

 

Not sure about 'bloody'. I'm a Yank and that isn't an issue over here but wasn't sure about the UK. So while I was bleeping the others I just nailed that one too.

From the Posting Rules

Cursing is pretty easy; it is or it isn't. "Offensive" is tougher since it's always hard to say what will offend folks. In this case I tried to err on the side of caution.

 

Well, to be just on the safe side newt, I did say it again two messages above this. it's mainly the old people in the UK who cry over words like that. Never mind eh.

 

If you want to use Paint to crop a picture, select the area you want to keep and then click edit>copy to. In the save window that opens, give it a name and click save. Now open the pic you saved and it should only contain the part you cropped out of the original.