2013

Photo Handling 263
Cropping photos
The easiest way to crop a photo is to just drag
on it when in the
ENHANCE TOOL, or you can just
drag one of the 8 control handles around the
outside to adjust the edge of any selected photo.
For more advanced cropping control, select the CLIP BUTTON on the PHOTO
TOOL
flyout bar which provides aspect ratio control and precise numeric
clipping control.
This also provides an Un-clip button that will remove any clip rectangle and restore
the original image.
One important feature is that this crop feature is really a dynamic clip, in other words
it's a non-destructive crop, and you can adjust the crop boundary afterwards to reveal
hidden parts of the photo. If you want to really crop - i.e. make this a destructive crop,
that really removes the invisible parts of an image then use the Optimize Photo
feature.
Screenshots
In combination with a built-in screen capture feature you can easily capture and
create screen shots.You can either use the
SCREEN CAPTURE UTILITY which is included
in MAGIX Page & Layout Designer 2013 or use the screenshot capability built into
Windows.
Using Windows to capture screenshots
• Press the "Print screen" button on your keyboard. This places a screen capture of
the whole screen on the clipboard. Alternatively, select "Alt + Print screen" which
will capture just the current window.
• In MAGIX Page & Layout Designer 2013 select "Ctrl + V" to paste, and select
"Bitmap" to have the results pasted onto the page.
You can now crop, add text annotation, resize as required and save the results. It's
best to save this type of image as a PNG file.
Screen capture utility
This utility offers some advantages over the method above, including the option to
capture the mouse pointer in the image.
Open it by choosing UTILITIES > SCREEN
CAPTURE.