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A photo from a photo...

by christy May 19, 2006 8:28PM PDT

This is not a question on digital cameras, but is connected to it, and I hope to get a few suggestions. I have posted the question over at the Graphics forum, but did not get any respond. This is a shorter version:

How do I cut out a scene or section of a photo to create a new photo - e.g. cuting out a ''face'' to create a portriat ? I suppose this is what digital photographers do all the time. I am quite familiar with photography and digital cameras, but new to digital graphics. I suppose I will need a digital graphics editing program and a ''technic''. Thanks.

christy

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Try the Free FastStone

by colindarby May 19, 2006 10:37PM PDT

Download the Free FastStone Image Viewer Photo Program from

http://www.faststone.org/FSViewerDetail.htm

Yes has an excellent "Crop" programming
[Open your photo = Right Click on the photo =Edit = Crop Board = select photo ratio = Flip - Portrait =]

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Crop

by snapshot2 Forum moderator May 20, 2006 12:05AM PDT

As Colindarby said......Crop is the word you are looking for.

A handy simple free program is Irfanview.
http://www.irfanview.com

Open a photo with Irfanview
Use the cursor to draw a rectangle around the section of the photo that you want to keep.
Click Edit
Click Crop Section

Be sure to save it under a different name to prevent writing over your original file.

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