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Seek help cropping toward use as button

Dec 17, 2005 9:50AM PST

All I have is MSpaint. Any way for me to crop the below via MSpaint?

Note it's just a sample, though it's basically the gist of what I'll need - i.e. I need to crop off the excess junk surrounding the cylindrical shape, and just retain the cylindrical shape to use as button IMG.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v32/JudySmith/testbutton.gif

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Well, sort of
Dec 18, 2005 6:34AM PST

There is a way to get rounded crops with MS Paint, but how you do it is somewhat backward.

You make the frame you want and grab that as a brush, with the transparent pasting button selected.

See: http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c358/ChuckItAll/crop2.jpg
I used your example, as a frame on a picture of mine.

Note: You MUST make sure that the center of your brush.

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Dec 18, 2005 8:24AM PST

Uh, I may not have clarified. The sort of button I meant would be the same shape as you find below, i.e. the yellow CNET Preview & Submit buttons.

Whereas I don't see that in your examples - they're not cropped, rather they're still rectangular with cylindrical shapes inside the rectangles.

Alternatively, is there any online freebie button software which would allow me to superimpose, say, red or purple or orange Comic Sans characters on their buttons?

Then, for example, using that software, the below Preview & Submit buttons might be Red or Purple lettered & comic-sans (instead of black letters).

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Then no
Dec 18, 2005 6:42PM PST

You're asking too much of MS Paint.

If you really need those sort of tools, look into more elaborate picture editing packages.

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Well
Dec 21, 2005 4:55AM PST

uh, maybe I'll check & see if I can download a free solid-grey button & try to superimpose multicolored comic sans lettering on it.

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You would do well to get a different graphics program...
Dec 22, 2005 10:35PM PST

MS Paint is the worst thing to use, PaintShop Pro, Photoshop Elements or even Adobe Photodeluxe would be better and they are cheap. If you look around you can probably find a free one as well.

The Gimp is a possibility. Or look HERE.

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Gimp
Dec 25, 2005 2:58PM PST

EdH, not a bad idea. Good link.

-Kevin

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Seek Help
Dec 24, 2005 3:08PM PST

Jelley. Please just use your software program such as Microsft Word, PageMaker or Quark or whatever you have. The shape can be drawn in Quark or Word and the lettering or type can be colorized in a combo of a millions of colors.
Does Microsoft Word have a free tryout and tutorial. Adobe and Quark both have them so that you can learn their programs. Check them out.
The try-outs are full programs. The ony thing that you cannot do is to save a fileor print a file.
Same goes for Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign.
Have fun!

-Kevin