MS FrontPage Tutorial -- University Outreach and Extension

Crop

The crop tool lets you trim an image to the size you want. This is especially useful if you have a photo or graphic with excess background space. You can trim it away until you have just what you want.

To use the crop tool:

1. Select the image by clicking on it once (so you see the handles)
2. Click the Crop tool on the Image Toolbar
   Another set of handles will appear on the graphic, these will have hollow squares at the corners.
3. Resize the cropping rectangle by dragging the handles to the desired positions.
4. Hit enter
5. Click somewhere outside the image to complete

Rotate/Flip

These icons will cause your image to rotate on the page or flip on the either the vertical or horizontal axis.

Adjust contrast, brightness

These icons will allow you to adjust the contrast or brightness in an image. This is useful for making minor adjustments to photos.

Increasing contrast makes the dark colors darker and light colors lighter. Increasing the brightness adds more light to the entire image.

Bevel and Resample

These two functions are very different, but they have one thing in common -- they don't work very well.

Both of these functions are better done in an image editing program like Image Composer, Adobe PhotoShop, Corel PhotoPaint, or PaintShop Pro.

The bevel tool adds a beveled edge to your image, but it does not look as good as if it were done in a real image editing program.

The Resample tool lets you resize your image, then saves it at that size. This is a good thing to do; however, FrontPage doesn't do a very good job of it. You will get much better results if you do this in Image Composer or PhotoShop because these image editing programs use much more sophisticated algorithms to resize images (not just height and width, but they take into account color distribution and edges within the image).

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Kate Akers, kate@oseda.missouri.edu Webmaster, University Outreach and Extension Last modified: 08/27/02