Native Windows program that can crop a screen capture?

[Guest]

I'm trying to advise a friend about how he can put a screen capture into
Microsoft Publisher. He doesn't have any graphics software like Photoshop,
but doesn't need to do anything but crop a few screenshots. Is there any
program that comes with XP (ie: one that he'll likely have) that he can paste
a screen cap into, crop it, and save it as a JPG (or other graphic format)?

Thanks in advance for any help!

 

[P. Di Stolfo]

Hello,

have you tried Paint, the standard Windows mspaint? For me it works quite
well.

Greetings,
P. Di Stolfo

 

[Malke]

I'm trying to advise a friend about how he can put a screen capture into
Microsoft Publisher. He doesn't have any graphics software like Photoshop,
but doesn't need to do anything but crop a few screenshots. Is there any
program that comes with XP (ie: one that he'll likely have) that he can paste
a screen cap into, crop it, and save it as a JPG (or other graphic format)?

Thanks in advance for any help!

Natively, MS Paint. If that doesn't work for him then have him try
Irfanview (free) from www.irfanview.com


Malke

 

[Bill Sharpe]

I'm trying to advise a friend about how he can put a screen capture into
Microsoft Publisher. He doesn't have any graphics software like Photoshop,
but doesn't need to do anything but crop a few screenshots. Is there any
program that comes with XP (ie: one that he'll likely have) that he can paste
a screen cap into, crop it, and save it as a JPG (or other graphic format)?

Thanks in advance for any help!

I was able to do a screen capture and paste the image directly into the
Publisher 2007. With the pasted image selected, use The Picture toolbar
crop button as needed.

I presume this also works in earlier versions but I can't check those.

Bill

 

[Plato]

I'm trying to advise a friend about how he can put a screen capture into
Microsoft Publisher. He doesn't have any graphics software like Photoshop,
but doesn't need to do anything but crop a few screenshots. Is there any
program that comes with XP (ie: one that he'll likely have) that he can paste
a screen cap into, crop it, and save it as a JPG (or other graphic format)?

Not sure, but several screen capture utils below:

http://www.gadwin.com/printscreen/
http://www.wisdom-soft.com/downloads/downloadfiles.htm

 

[Guest]

Thanks, guys. I didn't see the crop function in MS Paint, but now that you
assure me that it exists I'll look harder until I find it. Thanks again.

 

[Elmo]

Thanks, guys. I didn't see the crop function in MS Paint, but now that you
assure me that it exists I'll look harder until I find it. Thanks again.

This is the only "Crop" I could find: Use the Select tool, upper right,
select an area, click Edit, Copy To, and save it.

 

[dobey]

This is the only "Crop" I could find: Use the Select tool, upper right,
select an area, click Edit, Copy To, and save it.

You use the Select tool to select an area then cut/copy it, create a new
document then paste your selection into the new document.

Depends if you want to save the cut section or discard it.

 

[Elmo]

You use the Select tool to select an area then cut/copy it, create a new
document then paste your selection into the new document.

Depends if you want to save the cut section or discard it.

Agreed. But the OP was interested in cropping a screen capture, so I
only referenced that aspect of the Select tool.

 

[Bob I]

The only "crop" would be to "adjust" the attributes to the desired lower
right corner, then Rotate the image 180 degrees and then "adjust" the
attributes to the "upper left" corner, then rotate 180, and now your
original is "cropped". Otherwise you need to do the select, copy, new,
paste, routine.