Photo help, please..........

[Jonny]

Can anyone tell me if there is a way of zooming in on photo's and saving it, ie I take a photo of a bird in the distance, put it on my computer and zoom in to make the bird fill the page, but I do not know how to save it like that, if it is possible. I am only using standard windows xp applications, but I do have microsoft picture it 10 and can't suss it on that either.
Please help, with no mention of photoshop..............Jon (?)

[Boddie]

just crop the part of the image that you want to keep and then save the image - best free sofware for me is picasa 2 - has all the basics you will need

cheers

[Fourwings]

Picture it 10 must have a crop tool somewhere.
Simply crop a tight square around the bird and save, but be aware you will loose some image quality depending on the mega pixel rate of the camera it was taken with, and how large the bird was within the original image.

[Jonny]

Thanks Guys, but how do you crop ? (No mention of tractors please Fourwings).................Jon (I do know where the on button is though)

[Boddie]

did you try picasa?

[Jonny]

Originally Posted by Boddie

did you try picasa?

No I haven't, is it going to be any better than the microsoft one I already have. I have never done any editing before (except those smoking ducks, which I did in Paint with a steady hand). Why do I need to edit anyway, all I want to do is bring the subject closer and to save it like that..................Jon

[Boddie]

Sure it will be better.

It will also allow you to keep a better library of your images as it will file them for you. It only takes seconds to download, is free of charge and is extremely easy to use. You just have to play with it to get the hang of it and will regret not having it earlier.

You can get it here http://picasa.google.com/download/index.html

[glsammy]

Originally Posted by Jonny

Thanks Guys, but how do you crop ? (No mention of tractors please Fourwings).................Jon (I do know where the on button is though)

I don't know the software you use, but the crop tool is usually show as a dotted square or circle on the editing bar, normally it's one of the first few items. You click on this if it's a square, and then drag a square around the part of the image you want to crop to.
You then save this, giving it a new name and you've done it!

[Jonny]

Originally Posted by glsammy

I don't know the software you use, but the crop tool is usually show as a dotted square or circle on the editing bar, normally it's one of the first few items. You click on this if it's a square, and then drag a square around the part of the image you want to crop to.
You then save this, giving it a new name and you've done it!

Thanks for that, I'll give it a go. If I have no luck, I will try Boddies picassa, though I do not want to move all my photo's out of My Pictures on my computer (would take forever)........................Jon

[carlj]

Or looks like 2 interlocked L's at right angles. Another free option for you to look at is the Gimp - sounds rude, is very powerful!