Kill_Life Posted November 2, 2006 Share Posted November 2, 2006 (note: this guide is meant for beginners who only have Paint, not pro artists with Photoshop or other good software) Guide to cropping! Since most people dont know how to crop, here is a small ad easy guide how to learn it. First of all, why do you need to crop? Because it is really annoying to see al that white! And cropping a picture only takes a couple of seconds! Where do you need to crop pictures? I advice to do this in Paint. Usually, Paint is standard on your computer. Where to find this? Start -> All Programs -> Office Accessories -> Paint Cant find it this way? Right-click on your Start-button. Take Search. Search for: Paint. First of all, when you need to crop, youll need a picture! How to take this picture? Press PrintScreen-button. (PrtSc). Youll now have a screenshot of the whole screen on the moment you took the pic. Now, open Paint. Right-click, paste. When you now Save the picture, that aint cropping! It will look like this: This is a big: NO!!! Its easy to do, but people hate it to look at! People hate you for it! So, what do you have to do. In paint, select the region you need. Here you see the region selected (the dotting pen line): Now, right-click this region and select: Copy. Open a new Paint-file. Just go to File and select New. Paste your region their. You are not finished yet! But you are almost their! If you would save it now, and your screen is to big, its horrible! Some people think their Paint will crop it itself. This isnt true! If your screen is to big, and you save it, you will get a lot white space! And that looks even more horrible then the first picture I posted. Here is what youll get: Its bad for the eyes Now, what you need to do: When you just opened your Paint, make the screen very small! Certainly smaller then the window you are going to paste! Heres a picture. Might be hard to see Just make sure the window is smaller then the one you are going to paste. Now, paste the window, and the Paint-window will become larger itself and fit into it! Here is the picture youll have when you paste it into it. Its perfect! Just save the picture now. File -> Save As -> Now just save it as .bmp or something. You now have a nice cropped picture. Its fun for the eye to look at. Just perfect. Have fun cropping! Their might be other ways to crop, but this is as far as I know the most simple. Its done very fast! Now, make sure this isnt your cropping level: ~Guide made by: Kill Life. Tip.it use only! "A man's gotta do what a man's gotta do"[Currently playing: K1ll L1f3] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kaphias Posted November 3, 2006 Share Posted November 3, 2006 Ok, this works on a Windows computer, but I know some people who have Mac's. To take a normal screenshot, press Shift, Apple, and 3 all at the same time. To take a cropped screenshot, press Shift, Apple and 4 all at the same time. A slection tool will come up and you can select the area of the screenshot you want to take. Hope this helps, -Matt91493 8,325th to 99 Firemaking 3/9/08 | 44,811th to 99 Cooking 7/16/084,968th to 99 Farming 10/9/09 | Runescaper August 2005-March 2010Tip.it Mod Feb. 2008-Sep. 2008 | Tip.it Crew Sep. 2008-Nov. 2009 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doomster Posted November 3, 2006 Share Posted November 3, 2006 Paint! - UGH! http://www.irfanview.com/ - The flattened cat rules! While mostly a viewer, it has the option to capture, and can crop. There is also a plugin to add "PNGOUT" optimized PNG saving. Another trick up it's sleeve is pixelation, to hide stuff without an ugly hole.. the "face full of squares" effect. A great piece of freeware / donationware. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mamong Posted November 4, 2006 Share Posted November 4, 2006 Paint! - UGH! http://www.irfanview.com/ - The flattened cat rules! While mostly a viewer, it has the option to capture, and can crop. There is also a plugin to add "PNGOUT" optimized PNG saving. Another trick up it's sleeve is pixelation, to hide stuff without an ugly hole.. the "face full of squares" effect. A great piece of freeware / donationware. Your guide is great, I hope to see less white space on some TIF Screenshots. Well done! =D> I don't use paint either. A tool I use is called The Gimp. Its free and it quite easy to use and is a great little program. I've made my sig in it, its great for cutting out objects as you can get right into the nitty gritty and cut it down. Great program and its free, I recommend it. Pokemama - You mentioned you had something that could convert .bmp to .gif. Anyone who could maybe PM me some tips on making some small, simple animations using freeware programs would be greatly appreciated. [Tip.It Mod][Retired][Add your Steam name here!] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kill_Life Posted November 4, 2006 Author Share Posted November 4, 2006 To all people, this guide remains for Paint! It's like I said, Paint is standard on like all computerts, that's why. "A man's gotta do what a man's gotta do"[Currently playing: K1ll L1f3] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
atronic92 Posted November 4, 2006 Share Posted November 4, 2006 Nice guide! I hope that it will improve the quality of pictures on TIF by removing white space. Suggestion: save images in .png format. Png's have better quality in less space. "We will certainly not be gaining money or members with this update. Instead, we are doing this for the good of the game, which is as dear to our hearts as it is to you."- JAGEX, December 13, 2007 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pokemama Posted November 5, 2006 Share Posted November 5, 2006 Nice guide! I hope that it will improve the quality of pictures on TIF by removing white space. Suggestion: save images in .png format. Png's have better quality in less space. I'll add it, ty for info. This depends on how old your version of Paint is. Older versions of Paint don't do PNG at all. JPGs from Paint are very fuzzy because they are low quality (high quality JPGs can be made by other programs). GIFs made directly from Paint are also low quality, and lose tons of colors making them look bizarre. Thus the use of imagemagick (see http://forum.tip.it/viewtopic.php?t=564049 ) to convert your high quality BMPs directly to GIF (or PNG or whatever). The result is a nice, crisp picture suitable for the forums and even the Tip.It website! ============================ BTW, Kill_Life, I've been advised that this guide (although superb, of course) can't go in the AOW. :( However, it was suggested that it go into the Gallery where it might also be added to their tutorials list. I know the Help and Advice forum sticky would likely also add a pointer to it. And possibly we could add one here, perhaps in the stickied "how to write a guide" guide. it's a lot easier to get over yourself when you look at intelligence the same way you look at beauty, or height, or eye color: being smart is easy, but being good is hard ... being smart is handed to you, being good is handed to *nobody*. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kill_Life Posted November 5, 2006 Author Share Posted November 5, 2006 BTW, Kill_Life, I've been advised that this guide (although superb, of course) can't go in the AOW. :( However, it was suggested that it go into the Gallery where it might also be added to their tutorials list. I know the Help and Advice forum sticky would likely also add a pointer to it. And possibly we could add one here, perhaps in the stickied "how to write a guide" guide. Let me know your thoughts. I don't really mind that it won't go in the AOW. Since this isn't a Runescape guide, but helps cropping pictures to put them on TIF. Would be cool if it goes in the Gallery, etc. I would be honored :D If I may be so free also to suggest "Rate This!" and "Graveyard"? Since a lot of pictures get posted their. And like I said, I don' mind if it doesn't get in the AoW :) "A man's gotta do what a man's gotta do"[Currently playing: K1ll L1f3] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pokemama Posted November 6, 2006 Share Posted November 6, 2006 Thanks Kill_Life. Although most regular Gallery users already know this sort of thing, hopefully it will help players who are new to graphics and just want to post some simple Runescape pictures. Gallery users, please be kind :). And if someone wants to post info on how to use the Paint "handles" to crop, it would be very much appreciated. it's a lot easier to get over yourself when you look at intelligence the same way you look at beauty, or height, or eye color: being smart is easy, but being good is hard ... being smart is handed to you, being good is handed to *nobody*. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Exkarotis Posted November 6, 2006 Share Posted November 6, 2006 Wooty woot, I wish I had found this guide earlier, instead of using my stupid method of trial and error to eventually find all this out! Great st00f mate :3> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
misterxman Posted November 6, 2006 Share Posted November 6, 2006 Very useful and easy to learn. Added to FAQ list. Pixel sigs by me.Pixel Art Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aracnicos Posted November 7, 2006 Share Posted November 7, 2006 after the screen get with the image and all white around you say to make the paint very small. when i make it very small and i paste the image i want, the paint window stills small and the image stays there with the with stuff. i just don't know how to explain that well.... i hope you undeserstanded and help me please Peace and Love Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kill_Life Posted November 8, 2006 Author Share Posted November 8, 2006 after the screen get with the image and all white around you say to make the paint very small. when i make it very small and i paste the image i want, the paint window stills small and the image stays there with the with stuff. i just don't know how to explain that well.... i hope you undeserstanded and help me please Maybe an old version of Paint. in that case, make your screen bigger then the window you want to paste. Paste and and you'll have a lot white space. Now, make the Paint-screen smaller untill you just reach the borders of the screen you just pasted. That should do it... "A man's gotta do what a man's gotta do"[Currently playing: K1ll L1f3] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aracnicos Posted November 8, 2006 Share Posted November 8, 2006 after the screen get with the image and all white around you say to make the paint very small. when i make it very small and i paste the image i want, the paint window stills small and the image stays there with the with stuff. i just don't know how to explain that well.... i hope you undeserstanded and help me please Maybe an old version of Paint. in that case, make your screen bigger then the window you want to paste. Paste and and you'll have a lot white space. Now, make the Paint-screen smaller untill you just reach the borders of the screen you just pasted. That should do it... well, when I do that I only see the screen i want but the white stuff stils there if I scroll... :| Peace and Love Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kill_Life Posted November 8, 2006 Author Share Posted November 8, 2006 You need to remove it by making the white screen smaller. Make it smaller untill it reaches the Picture. "A man's gotta do what a man's gotta do"[Currently playing: K1ll L1f3] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
starsteller Posted November 9, 2006 Share Posted November 9, 2006 To all people, this guide remains for Paint! It's like I said, Paint is standard on like all computerts, that's why. Gimp is a free download now a days. It's much better than Paint. Thank the world for spell checkers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kill_Life Posted November 9, 2006 Author Share Posted November 9, 2006 To all people, this guide remains for Paint! It's like I said, Paint is standard on like all computerts, that's why. Gimp is a free download now a days. It's much better than Paint. But Gimp isn't on most computer... Like very little computers. And some people don't trust downloads. So, this remains: PAINT... "A man's gotta do what a man's gotta do"[Currently playing: K1ll L1f3] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cadburys_egg Posted November 9, 2006 Share Posted November 9, 2006 To all people, this guide remains for Paint! It's like I said, Paint is standard on like all computerts, that's why. Gimp is a free download now a days. It's much better than Paint. Not everyone will be allowed to install it though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
supercanon14 Posted December 3, 2006 Share Posted December 3, 2006 i dont understand... but i cant get any pics eather DoD:S ownagewhat we have here is a ..um.. failur to communcate check out my steam ID page @ alpha company Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kuroi_Ame Posted December 4, 2006 Share Posted December 4, 2006 Lol, very nice, hopefully some people will listen... do u wow?Cassiius|Level 70 Night Elf Preist|RunetotemSambora|Level 37 Tauren Shaman|BurningLegion Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mark63534 Posted December 5, 2006 Share Posted December 5, 2006 um....when you select the region needed, how do you do that? what i end up doing is resizing the pic every time and it gets tinier. what i mean is i click and hold on the tiny boxes in the corners. Click Here 4 My Crafting Guide!Yes, I Do have over 100,000+ Emails. I get about 100+ every day. Want some? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mark63534 Posted January 15, 2007 Share Posted January 15, 2007 i understand now how to select the region needed. thanks! Click Here 4 My Crafting Guide!Yes, I Do have over 100,000+ Emails. I get about 100+ every day. Want some? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moneyman5 Posted January 27, 2007 Share Posted January 27, 2007 sweet Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
P00kasarus Posted February 28, 2007 Share Posted February 28, 2007 #-o so thats how u crop... #-o really needed to know that, thanks =D> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mark63534 Posted March 14, 2007 Share Posted March 14, 2007 free bump, just for other people Click Here 4 My Crafting Guide!Yes, I Do have over 100,000+ Emails. I get about 100+ every day. Want some? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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