I scanned in a bunch of photographs of Belle -- the old-fashioned kind, made with film, back in the day. I used Picasa to crop them (because the file made by the scanner includes all of the white space surrounding the photograph), but that only seems to work within Picasa. When I try to upload the cropped images to this weblog, for example, the white space that I tried to crop away is back.
If it's not obvious, I'm a complete ignoramus about photos. My goal is to end up with the digital equivalent of these 3 x 5" photographs. My tools are a Brother scanner with an 8 x 10" scanning surface, MS Paint, and Picasa. And perhaps some other tools and software that I am not aware I own.
Can anyone help?
[UPDATE: I discovered that I have Microsoft Photo Editor, which let me do some rudimentary cropping.]
Ditch Picasa. Get Gimp (it's free): http://www.gimp.org/
Posted by: | April 18, 2006 at 10:32 AM
I think you have to export the pictures from Picassa to another folder or your desktop before uploading them.
I think Picassa saves your original photo and a memory of all of your edits so you can undo them if you want to, but when you upload directly from Picassa, the thing you're using to upload just pulls up the original.
When you export the photo from Picassa, Picasso will export the altered vesion of the photo (while saving the original inside itself in case you ever need it).
That's how it was explained to me, at least!
Posted by: Jill | April 18, 2006 at 10:47 AM
Personally, I haven't had a lot of luck with Gimp myself; I found it difficult to use.
Posted by: Jill | April 18, 2006 at 10:48 AM
After applying the crop go to file/save a copy. You will then have the original immage and the cropped one which you can upload to your blog or other applications.
Posted by: Tillerman | April 18, 2006 at 10:59 AM
Tillerman is right. You have to save a copy...
Posted by: stephanie | April 18, 2006 at 11:38 AM
You may also want to resize the photo when you save it.
Posted by: Dan | April 18, 2006 at 08:33 PM