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Extremely basic question about image handling in paint programs
How does one tell a paint program : I give you this image to edit, then you give it back to me with exactly the same limits, and don't ask me where they are, the limits are those of the object I gave you to work with ?
Sorry this is so basic and clumsy a question I cant even find the words, but I've been struggling for years to do that and I STILL haven't found the solution.
It can be in Microsoft Paint, it can be in Paint.net, any desperately simple program to do the following :
- Take a snapshot out of the screen with MS Snipping Tool or somesuch. Or a plain photograph.
- Put it into a paint program.
- Do someting to the image. Something very simple. Usually draw a red rectangle onto it to show something. Or underline some words.
- And that's all. After that I want to "take out the image from the program" and put it elsewhere. Paste it into Word, anything.
- But I want the image and only the image. Not the stupid white thing behind it. They call it the canvas I think. I want the program to understand by itself it has to bring out of itself what I brought into it. Not less, not more. I dont want to draw a rectangle around it to show to the program where the photograph is. It knows that. It's obvious. I have already selected the zone when doing the snap, I don't want to do it again and struggle with the limits and risk putting in the image too little or too much. How does one do that ? There must be a way.