From the course: Help Yourself: Tech Tips Weekly

Fixing a photo

From the course: Help Yourself: Tech Tips Weekly

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Fixing a photo

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- [Instructor] Two common, easy, and powerful image editing tools are crop and rotate. Here's the photos app of the default image viewing and editing app in Windows 10. The rotating crop tools appear up here, rotate and crop, and this symbol is common for crop in just about any photo editing program, even photo editing apps on mobile devices. Click it, and cropping works like scissors to snip away unwanted parts of an image. Here, as in most photo editing applications, you move the crop handles to resize the crop box surrounding the area of the image you want to retain. You can move the image around inside the crop box, though in some programs you may actually move the crop box instead. Either way, the goal is to center the image and line it up. Use these guidelines to help you position the image properly. Various courses in the library offer further tips on properly framing an image. If you're unhappy, you can click the reset button, in which case the original image is restored. Otherwise, click save a copy. The copy becomes the crop image file, and the original file is left untouched. This next image is improperly oriented. This happens especially with mobile devices that may not record proper image orientation data in the image file. Use the rotation control here. Each click of the mouse rotates the image in 90-degree increments. In this program, you can also click on the crop button for more control. I can still rotate the image in 90-degree increments. I can also flip the image across the vertical access. The straightening tool allows me to adjust orientation discreetly. See how the image is enlarged as it's rotated? This effect keeps the image in the same aspect ratio. Click the save as copy button when you're done, or click cancel to discard the changes, and click okay to confirm. By the way, when you use the rotate tool in this manner as shown earlier, the original image is updated instantly. There's no need to save a copy, so the image is effectively fixed. Don't blame yourself for messing up an image. With the proper tools, you can fix these simple problems.

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