posted on December 29, 2001 04:23:42 PM new
Here we go again. The camera that any dummy can figure out Welllllllll here's my problem I have MGI Photo Suite V8.1 software. I have gone to edit and everywhere else. I can crop a picture(make dotted lines) but can not get what is around the crop (the messy room) to disapear. I also can not get the crop part to save. My old camera you would crop a picture click on the center of the picture and everything outside the crop would disappear. Then blow up what you just croped(which I can not do with the mavica)then hit save and you have a saved picture. I must be missing something somewhere. HELP!
posted on December 29, 2001 05:03:15 PM new
I use different software, but after I define the crop with the dotted line, I go to edit copy, open/new, and paste the cropped part making a new file.
posted on December 29, 2001 05:28:32 PM new
That has nothing to do with the Sony Mavica. It's 100% the photo software you are using.
Once you take the picture, you put the disk in the computer, and then decide which program you want to use for cropping.
Use whatever program you like best, sometimes I use Paint Shop Pro, LView, Photoshop, just depends on what I want that day, and they all act different on the same picture from my one Sony Mavica camera.
I usually put the dotted lines around where I want to crop. Then I go to the word "crop" in my editor and click crop and it crops only what I had the lines around.
posted on December 29, 2001 07:51:05 PM new
Insert your floppy into your computer. Open up Photosuite and use work on your own. In the upper left corner select file and you get a drop box. Select open photo and select the photo you want from your floppy. Click it so it on your computer screen. Select sissors draw the area on your photo to the size you want. Click Sissors again then click the X on the upper right corner and the part you want will turn black. Go to file again drop down the box select new photo and make it the size you want. Hit edit and the cropped picture will be there but remember you now have to put it in the JPEG again or it will resort to the big picture again. If this doesn't work write again.
posted on December 30, 2001 08:32:51 AM new
Libra63 I get to the part-click sissors a second time but the part that I cropped(the inside) turns white. So I try the invert selection before I hit sissors the second time and that keeps my section that I want (the crop)but turns the rest of the picture white(not black)and I can't resize the picture without distorting it. I found out if I do as Goldpanner3 suggests (use my editing program from my old camera) I make out fine. It is just that I would like to learn how to use this new editing program that comes with the mavica.
posted on December 30, 2001 08:42:27 AM new
You must have an updated program from mine. I didn't get any software with my camera because it was refurbished so I am using my old one which is also PhotoSuite MGI. All I can suggest is that you go the help secion and use the index tab and insert Edit in there and then click display read and see what it says. I sure hope that you can get it. I know that some directions are hard to follow but if you practice enough it will come. After you get the instructions print them out so that you can have them handy when you try to crop a picture. Maybe the Sony website can help you. They have a question and answer area.
posted on December 30, 2001 08:42:46 AM new
What you are doing is cutting, not cropping. Once you define your cropping area, try double-clicking within the area. That's the way it works in Photoshop and Painter.
This information should be in your editor's Help file. Just look up crop.
posted on December 30, 2001 09:07:01 AM new
I think I see the problem. Try using the "TRIM" feature.....not the scissors.
Bottom line is right here(hopefully).....Select area using the "select with rectangle", then click Image, then click Trim. Everything around the rectangle should go away.
*****here is why....
Scissors almost always means "cut" or remove a piece of the picture, which then can be saved elsewhere or discarded or whatever. But that is the long way of doing things. What you want sould say "crop to selection" or simply "trim".
****Read This:....
Issue: How to crop or trim a photo using PhotoSuite SE or 8.x.
Resolution: The Trim feature allows you to remove unwanted areas of the current image. In order to trim an image, select a rectangular area of the image to retain, then select Trim on the Image or Edit menu. The area of the image outside the selected rectangle is discarded.
1. With your photo open for editing, click the "Select by Rectangle" tool from the left side tool bar.
2. Draw a rectangle around the area you want to retain.
3. Using PhotoSuite 8.x, click Image, Trim.
4. Using PhotoSuite SE, click Edit, Trim.
5. Save your photo by clicking File, Save As.
posted on December 30, 2001 12:50:26 PM new
WOW! You people are priceless! I Finally did it. It only took me 2 days. If this is the camera for dummies I'm really in trouble. Next problem, is there a way to blow up the picture that you just cropped without it distorting.(blurring)
posted on December 30, 2001 01:54:03 PM new
Your gonna have to go into the help file and search for "resize", or "resample", or even try "enlarge".
Better yet, on your next picture, use the camera to ZOOM in on your object until most or all of the background clutter is out of the picture. It's faster and usually will make a better picture with maybe just a slight trim and then you don't have to resize.
With a different camera I had, I always was cropping and sizing because I was limited on the focus ability of the camera.
With the Mavica FD73, I can often times use the zoom to get my object in the picture without the background around the edges. It saves a little time and simplifies things.
posted on December 30, 2001 02:44:54 PM new
I just pull the handles on the borders of the picture in until it looks ok I also use the same software as you
