PSP Tut 2
 

  How to Open & Crop an image,

then save in small file size as a Jpeg for the web

Find an image on your computer hard drive you wish to use.  In this lesson you'll meet my demon child Cricket our Chihuahua.  As you'll see in the graphic below, there's a lot of things in the picture I don't need.  So we are going to crop (cut out) the outside portions to make a smaller web friendly graphic.

Use this graphic as a reference: Full Screen Graphic

Step 1: Open up PSP.

Step 2: Choose file

Step 3: Choose Open

Step 4: Find and click on the image you want to use from you hard drive.  This will open it in PSP.

Step 5: Choose the Crop tool Icon ( see red line to locate the crop tool, in the graphic above)

Step 6: Now place your mouse cursor to the top left above Cricket's head. Click and hold your mouse button down.

Step 7: Now drag your mouse down to the bottom right until you see a box surrounding Cricket. 

Step 8:  Once you have the desired area selected, release the mouse button.

Step 9: Then go to the Tools Options pallet. ( see the blue line in the graphic above.)

Step 10: Click on the crop image button.

Step 11: Now go to and then click file (top left of your screen)

Step 12: click Export

Step 13: Click JPEG Optimizer

Step 14: Set compression Value to the highest setting and still keep your picture clear. 

Step 15: Click Ok

Step 16: Click save.. ( don't forget the location you save your graphics to, you'll need to know this location when your ready to add the graphic to your web site. You've just successfully modified your first graphic.. Congratulations!!!!

You've completed this Tut.

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