I get so wrapped up in all the tech tools that are cool to me, I often times forget to share some of the basics. It usually takes an agent asking the question for me to even realize others might be wondering the same thing. When I arrived at work today, this photo editing question from one of our successful agents was waiting patiently in my inbox.
I don’t know how to crop or re-size [my pictures] to be able to use them properly where I need to. Do you possibly know how to do that, and would be willing and able to help me?
Sho nuff! I’m happy to share with you and everyone the way I crop and resize pictures. By the way, I happen to know this user is a PC – sorry Macs!
Dear Successful Agent,
I’m pretty sure you have Microsoft Office Picture Manager on your computer. That’s the program you want to open the pictures with to resize and crop them.
To open them w/ that program – right-click on the file – left-click “Open With” – left-click Microsoft Office Picture Manager.
Then once it opens you need to left-click the button that says Edit Pictures.
Once you click that button, new options will open…
Click Crop to crop or Resize to resize. Once the image is the way you want it – click Save or Save As. Save will replace the original picture with the newly cropped one. “Save As” will save the newly cropped image as a separate file – leaving the original intact.
Good luck!
For the record, there are lots of ways to accomplish the same results – I just find using Microsoft Office Picture Manager to be the quickest way for me. In the event you would like to add borders or do other fun photo edits – I recommend picnik.com a free online photo editing tool.
Happy Friday!
