Solved MS Paint help.

[thudpucker]

I'm here from a Google search on MS Paint. The old Paint, not Paint.net, and I have some questions.
If I'm at the wrong forum, tell me, and tell me where to find the right forum.

 

[Brink]

Hello Dick, and welcome to Seven Forums.

What questions did you have about mspaint.exe? We will do our best to help.

 

[archer]

Hell Dick, welcome..

I want to say that the occupation line that you mentioned is hilarious.

Occupation
Retired Troubleshooter



Please tell us, how we can help. Always ready to help.

 

[thudpucker]

Ahhh help at last.

In Paint, I wanted to cut out part of a Jpeg and discard the rest of the photo.
I got the part I wanted, selected and cut out. I slid it over to the white space, but never could find it again.

Assuming you want to cut out a Head and just keep that head, and dump the rest of the Photo, how would you do that?

 

[DMHolt57]

You would go to File and create new, then paste the cut...

 

[thudpucker]

Wait wait...too fast.
I cut the part I want out.
Copy it. (how can I copy the cut out part?)
New File, then paste the copy to the blank new file?

Hey, that worked! Here's Bingo's head.

 

[Bongo]

Welcome to the Seven Forums

Look at the screenshots below should help you out.

Jerry

 

[Brink]

No worries. When you use "select" to crop and cut from the image it automatically copies the cut into Windows clipboard.

You would click on File (top left corner button) and New to clear Paint, then paste the cut image from clipboard. Afterwards, you would just adjust (drag) the borders of any extra white working space to remove it to only have the image showing.

 

[thudpucker]

I think I have it now. Clumsy, but that'll get better...

 

[Bongo]

Looks like you got it, practice always makes it better.

Jerry

 

[Kari]

Just an additional tip: When you have selected the area you want to keep, just click Crop and the MsPaint will discard the rest, only keeping the selected area. This way you don't need to open a new document to paste the selection.

Click below screenshots to enlarge images:

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Kari

 

[thudpucker]

WOW, that was the tip I've been after for a long time.

Now for one more question.
Supposed I wanted to join two different photo subjects into on photo?
IE: put a Dog and Cat's heads together in front of a Window etc?

 

[Kari]

WOW, that was the tip I've been after for a long time.

Now for one more question.
Supposed I wanted to join two different photo subjects into on photo?
IE: put a Dog and Cat's heads together in front of a Window etc?

A four screenshot mini tutorial :

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Instead of saving the cropped selection you can click COPY, then open the second image and select PASTE, but I personally prefer the method described above as if I later notice the cropped and copied image needs to be further edited before pasted into the new image, I can simply open it for edit and save again.

Kari

 

[thudpucker]

Oh boy you did a good'un. I'll not show this to my wife.
I'll give it a try. I'm sorta foggy with long series of Technical chores.

 

[thudpucker]

Sorry, didn't work for me. I tried to put two halves of a boat together.
A right and left.
I 'selected' the left. Saved it as 14 1.
Then did the other half, calling it 14 2.
I cropped both first, saving only the Boat parts.

I never found the Paste command.
Where was I supposed to click on that?