GlueGuy
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All the various photo/image editing tools have their plusses and minuses. I don't know much (or anything) about the one you're using. I generally use Paint Shop Pro. It's been around for a while, and tends to cut to the chase.
Snipping out a section of a photo with it is a piece of cake. You just select the cropping tool, and as you "surround" the section you want to crop, it displays the number of pixels that you're clipping out.
As for the "size" of a picture, there are lots of ways to view that. One is the "pixel" size, but you have to take into consideration the "depth", or number of bits used to represent each pixel.
Likewise, if you have a JPEG picture, remember that it's a "lossy" format, with adjustable amounts of "loss". It's a bit confusing to realize that the actual amount of storage that it takes to save a file to disk is a lot lower than what it takes to "render" it on the screen. So probably both number that you're looking at are correct. One is the amount of storage required (on disk), and the other is the amount of storage required (to display).
That's sort of the "reader's digest" version of an explanation.... /w3tcompact/icons/tongue.gif
Snipping out a section of a photo with it is a piece of cake. You just select the cropping tool, and as you "surround" the section you want to crop, it displays the number of pixels that you're clipping out.
As for the "size" of a picture, there are lots of ways to view that. One is the "pixel" size, but you have to take into consideration the "depth", or number of bits used to represent each pixel.
Likewise, if you have a JPEG picture, remember that it's a "lossy" format, with adjustable amounts of "loss". It's a bit confusing to realize that the actual amount of storage that it takes to save a file to disk is a lot lower than what it takes to "render" it on the screen. So probably both number that you're looking at are correct. One is the amount of storage required (on disk), and the other is the amount of storage required (to display).
That's sort of the "reader's digest" version of an explanation.... /w3tcompact/icons/tongue.gif
