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Following along with the illustrated instructions,
here's how to personalize jpg files using Microsoft Paint:
1. At the bottom of your computer screen, you
should have a “task bar,” which is a blue bar that has little icons in
it and shows you what programs are open on your desktop. Look for the
Start button to the far left, and click on it. Now click on Programs,
then Accessories, and then Paint. This will open Microsoft Paint. Now,
as shown in the picture below, click on File, then Open.
2. Locate the jpg file that you want to insert. You
locate the file just as you would for any other file that you are
looking for, but clicking on the arrow in the “Look for” field, and
clicking on the place or folder that has the jpg file. When you find
your jpg file, click on it and then click Open.
3. The jpg file will open. In this case, the
picture opened in an “up and down” orientation, instead of side to side
(so that you can read it).
3. You can rotate the picture so that you can read
it. On the toolbar, click on Image. In the drop-down menu, select
Flip/Rotate.
4. Click on Rotate by angle, and select 90%. Then
click OK.
5. Now the picture shows in the correct
orientation.
6. To add text, click on the capital letter A (blue
arrow). Then move the mouse and click in the picture (yellow arrow),
hold down the mouse button and drag the mouse down and to the right
(green arrow) to create a text box in the graphic. When you let go of
the mouse button, the text box will appear.
Congratulations for getting this far! It may seem
like a lot of steps, but everything has been logical, and you’re
learning to use Microsoft Paint!
7. Now, to be able to select a font and font size
(that is, the style of letters and the letter size), click on View on
the tool bar, and click on Test Toolbar.
8. In the Text toolbar, you can select the font (in
this example JamieHmkBold) and the font size (48).
9. Now type in the name, or any other text, that
you want to insert. Notice that the text box looks like it has erased
the number 5. Don’t panic! You can change the size of the text box by
clicking on the bottom dotted line, in the middle where the tiny block
is, and drag the text box up to underneath the name.
10. Now you’ve changed the size of the text box.
Now, you are going to get ready to print the page.
11. You will need to restore the orientation of the page (that is, you
are going to undo step 3. Click on Image, Flip/Rotate. When the
pull-down menu appears, click on Flip horizontal, and click OK.
12. Before you can print it, you may need to adjust the page size so
that the entire picture will print on one page. To determine if you have
to adjust the size, first view the picture in “Print Preview” mode.
Click on File, the click on Print Preview.
13. If you only see a portion of the picture (as
you can see below), then you will have to resize it so that it will all
print on one piece of computer paper.
14. If you need to re-size, the click on File, Page
Setup.
15. In the “Scaling box” pick a setting that is
less that 100% (position the cursor after 100, hit backspace three times
to clear the field, and then key in a number). As you can see here, the
Scaling is set to “Adjust to: 75% of normal size.” Click OK. Repeat
steps 12 through 15 until you see the entire picture in the Print
Preview screen (step 13).
16. As you can see here, the whole picture now
shows in the Print Preview screen and it looks evenly placed on the
page. It is now ready to print. Click the Print button.
Congratulations!!!! You have now
successfully used Microsoft Paint to personalize a jpg file! At this
point, you can experiment by clicking on other icons to find out how
they work, or you can click on Help (in the toolbar) to read through the
instructions.
For more tutorials, many with easy-to-follow
illustrated instructions, go to:
http://freecontent.janktheproofer.com/#Tutorials:
Jan K., The Proofer is a freelance copyeditor and proofreader. Visit
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