You can also select Rotate 180 that effectively turns the image on its head.Ĭlick the Text button to add some text to an image. Select Rotate left 90 to switch it to a portrait. If you need to switch a landscape photo to portrait–switching a tall photo to a wide photo–click the Rotate button. Then you can draw a shape on the image to highlight the area to retain, and press Crop to cut out the rest of the photo. Press the Select button and click Free-form selection from the menu. Paint also has a Free-form selection option that you can select to highlight cropping areas without rectangles. When you’ve selected an area of the picture with rectangle, click Crop to cut out the rest of the image as below.

So the cropping option effectively cuts out everything outside your rectangle selection. This is the area of the image retained when you crop it. Then you can drag a rectangle over an area of the image by holding the left mouse button, as shown in the snapshot directly below. First, press the Select button on the Home tab and click Rectangular selection from the menu. With that you can cut out a selected area of the image. That will cut the picture down by half, and to double its dimensions you would enter ‘200’ in the Horizontal/Vertical boxes.Ĭropping is one of the most essential editing tools, and Paint includes a Crop option. For example, to reduce the photo by 50%, enter ‘50’ into the Horizontal and Vertical text boxes and click OK.

Then you can adjust the image’s dimensions in percentage terms. Click the Percentage radio button on that window.

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