This is quite easy! First of all you need a decent image manipulation program. Try Photofiltre – it’s free for personal use and you can download it here
1. Once you have done that, go to ebay (or any program from which you wish to take screenshots) and press the “PrtScr” button on your keyboard (to the right of the end of the F keys). Don’t worry that nothing seems to have happened, it has!
2. Now open Photofiltre (or your image manipulation program what ever it is) and click File> New
3. Make sure that the size of the new file is the size of your screen – there’s a drop down box in PF
4. Now press Ctrl+V to paste the screen shot into the new file.
5. Now click “Image” from the tool bar and “Automatic Crop”
5a. Now File > Save As (for Powerpoint, to prevent the whole file from getting too big, use .jpg for the type of file)
5b. If you wish to crop the picture around one part of the screen, say to bring out a small area of the screenshot, take the automatically cropped image and place the cursor to the left and above the part of the image you want to capture.
6. Press the left mouse button down and drag to form a square around the chosen part of your image. When you are about happy let go. You can now re-size the area until you have it exact by placing the cursor over the edges of the marked area and dragging them until you are really happy.
7. Now go to “Image” and click “Crop” – after that, follow 5a above.
8. Now right click the new photo and click “Copy”
9. Go to the slide you want in Powerpoint and click paste – Job done!
It’s not complicated at all – just do it and you’ll see.
If you are happy with Photofiltre, have a look for add-ins The fisheye correction, The White Balance and the Split Layers are all good.
There is also a letter “T” on the toolbar – this lets you add text to any picture in any font and colour.
Since you're using Vista, you may want to check out the built-in Vista Snipping Tool. Just press Windows Key-R, type snippingtool and you'll be able to add it to your quick launch (Options Button)
jargray2
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June 19th, 2008 00:00
Forgot to mention that I'm using Office 2007 as well. Thanks again.
Jared
Delierious
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June 19th, 2008 07:00
http://photofiltre.free.fr/download_en.htm
This is quite easy! First of all you need a decent image manipulation program. Try Photofiltre – it’s free for personal use and you can download it here
1. Once you have done that, go to ebay (or any program from which you wish to take screenshots) and press the “PrtScr” button on your keyboard (to the right of the end of the F keys). Don’t worry that nothing seems to have happened, it has!
2. Now open Photofiltre (or your image manipulation program what ever it is) and click File> New
3. Make sure that the size of the new file is the size of your screen – there’s a drop down box in PF
4. Now press Ctrl+V to paste the screen shot into the new file.
5. Now click “Image” from the tool bar and “Automatic Crop”
5a. Now File > Save As (for Powerpoint, to prevent the whole file from getting too big, use .jpg for the type of file)
5b. If you wish to crop the picture around one part of the screen, say to bring out a small area of the screenshot, take the automatically cropped image and place the cursor to the left and above the part of the image you want to capture.
6. Press the left mouse button down and drag to form a square around the chosen part of your image. When you are about happy let go. You can now re-size the area until you have it exact by placing the cursor over the edges of the marked area and dragging them until you are really happy.
7. Now go to “Image” and click “Crop” – after that, follow 5a above.
8. Now right click the new photo and click “Copy”
9. Go to the slide you want in Powerpoint and click paste – Job done!
It’s not complicated at all – just do it and you’ll see.
If you are happy with Photofiltre, have a look for add-ins The fisheye correction, The White Balance and the Split Layers are all good.
There is also a letter “T” on the toolbar – this lets you add text to any picture in any font and colour.
abach
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June 19th, 2008 10:00
Since you're using Vista, you may want to check out the built-in Vista Snipping Tool. Just press Windows Key-R, type snippingtool and you'll be able to add it to your quick launch (Options Button)
It does most of what you'll require.
jargray2
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June 19th, 2008 15:00
Both ways will work, but the snipping tool is simpler and works great. Thank you both for your help.
Jared