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MS Paint (not recommended for photo manipulation)
1) Open image in MS Paint.
2) If the image is not placed correctly then you need to get it into the top left corner. To do this you need to select all (ctrl+a or menu edit-select all) and then your cusor will change to a 4 arrow pointer so you can drag what you have selected around. In the end you want it to look like this:
3) Pull in the right side or bottom to where you want the square to be. To do this you need to get rid of your selection that you did in step 2 (quickest way it to click on the eye dropper or the A or the pencil in the toolbox on the left which will remove the dotted line around the outside). Then use your mouse to grab the little blue box in the middle of the sides of the white area. Grab the box and pull it in so you have something like this:
4) Now to get an exact square change the image attributes to make the height and width the same. The menu option is [image][attributes]. So just take the smallest value shown and use it to square your image off. Like this:
5) you should now have a perfect square so just save as you want it.
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If you are on Mac OSX and don't want to use the "big" apps, this might be for you:
Quickimage is a tiny little freeware (660kb) that lets you manipulate Photos directly in the Finder. You can download it from PIXTURE STUDIO.
After installing you can view and manipulate photos in the Finder by slecting them and then "ctrl-click" (or "right-click" on two button mouses) to get to the context menu "View Image" like this:
1) In the "Constrain" menu, select "Square"
2) You will get into "trim mode" by hitting the space bar.
3) Finally hit the "Trim" menu to crop.
4) Make sure to save the cropped image under a new name with "cmd+S" (or from the "File" menu) as Quickimage won't warn you when closing the changed but unsaved image.
BTW: Quickimage is a nice way to convert the screenhots in OSX from the default PDF or TIFF to JPG while controlling image quality.
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If you are using iPhoto (Mac OSX) anyway, it's probably easiest to make the image square right within it:
There are some notes in the picture to show the required steps.
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If you find Adobe Photoshop (Win/Mac) on your computer but were never really told how to use it, you should read the following entry after this (from Cyron), that is probably easier.
Here are two screenshots that show how I did it before his post :) Dragging tangential guides and use the selection tool to crop squares:
(1) Make rulers visible in VIEW / RULERS or "cmd+R"
(2) drag guides from the rulers
(3) Use the "Rectangular Marquee Tool" or hit "M" and start dragging at the intersection of the guides. To get a squared selection hold down Shift.
(4) Select IMAGE/CROP.
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Personally, I use Photoshop to square my images, but I use an alternative method.
1) Select the Crop tool (Press C), and drag it around your image, whilst holding down the shift key. This will keep the selection square. This only needs to be rough, as you can correct it in the next step
2) Move the selection area so that the left edge and top edge of the selection are aligned with the edge of your circle. You can move a selection by clicking within the selected area and dragging the mouse
3) Hold down the shift key, and click the bottom right corner of your selection, then drag to resize it. Line up the bottom edge of the selection and the right side of the selection so that your square sits nicely around the circle. You can still move the selection if you want to tweak the final results a little
4) Press ENTER, and your image will crop to the selection. Save and upload.
If anyone wants demonstration images, let me know and I'll upload some.
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Picasa 2 is out now, and it's freeware. It also makes resizing images a breeze. It's easy to use and you can't beat the price
1) Double click on the image you wish to square. This will take you to a page that lets you do some basic fixes.
2) Click the Crop button, and choose Manual. Now, hold down the shift key and drag it around the image. This will keep the selection square as you change its size. It doesn't need to be exactly even, as you can move the selection area later
3) Move the selection area so that the left and and the top edge of the selection are aligned with the edge of your circle. You can do this by simply clicking within the selection area and dragging the selection around with the mouse
4) Hold down the shift key, and click the bottom right corner of your selection, then drag to resize it. Line up the bottom edge of the selection and the right side of the selection so that your square sits nicely around the circle. You can still move the selection if you want to tweak the final results a little
5) Press the Apply button, and your image is ready to go.
As with the previous example, if you want some screenshots, let me know and I'll whip some up
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I wondered how to do it in Picasa... thanks.
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bump!
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On Adobe PhotoShop Elements 2.0, select the Crop tool. On the Style drop-down menu, select Fixed Aspect Ratio. When you draw the area to crop, it will be a square. It may take a few tries to get the square in the correct location around the circle.
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I have noticed that Picasa 2's square cropping is sometimes is off by a few pixels. I use irfanview now, which is a more powerful freeware application.
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Picasa has only ever been off by 1 pixel for me, which isn't enough to worry about in my mind.
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Yeah, it was not off enough to mess up the 240x240 version or smaller, but still...
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thanks for the helpful picasa tips, i can finally finally make some posts :)
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I use PhotoShop and when I select the crop tool, I manually set the width and height to 500 pixels so it won't let me crop anything non-square. Seems a super-simple way of doing it.
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The problem with doing that basykes, is that it doesn't allow for you to make sure the circle fills up as much of the square as possible. Each photo will generally have a circle of a different size, and you are meant to crop the square close to its borders. If the 500 you enter in doesn't work, you have to keep guessing new numbers until you get one that does, and that's not so easy :)
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just put 1 in each field, that will give you the 1:1 ratio that you need to make it right. i would assume 500 would do the same thing...
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Cyron--no, you don't. I choose 500x500 because that's square, roughly the size I want. That means that no matter where I crop it--whether leaving lots of room, or right up next to the circle, it is always 500x500. Try it. 500x500 is just the finished size, but it doesn't limit you at all to the size of the border. I've contributed lots of squaredcircles here and that's the way I've cropped all of them.
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Ah, cool. Thanks for the clarification
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GIMP is good to but hard to navagate
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Please try the ASquare Image application I linked in another topic - you just can't believe how easy it is to use.
www.flickr.com/groups/topic/25930/
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bump
Is anyone else using ASquare Image? I still think it is the easiest way to go.
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As part of my Microsoft Works package, I have Premium Photo. Very simple program, it's similar to Picasa2. It is wonderful for cropping because as you crop, it gives the pixels for both dimensions in the side bar. No guessing = perfect squares!
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I'm using A Square Image! I don't like that it limits the image size to something so small. But otherwise it's great!
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another vote for A Square Image, excellent
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Do we need a note on how to make an image round? This is probably mentioned elsewhere in the group but I thought I'd re-insert it here.
Sometime circles have to be shot at an angle and don't come out exactly round which makes them difficult to square while still meeting the touching each edge requirement.
In those cases I crop to touching and then in Resize (Elements) I deselect the maintain aspect ratio and make either my height the same number as the width or vice versa. This creates both roundness and squareness.
I'm sure that these other software packages have some similar technique to solve this problem.
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@gwENvision: In such a case, I recommend averaging the original height and width, and using that for the new values for each, rather than making one the same as the other; this generally will round out the ellipticity a little better.
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True, alot depends on how close the numbers are of course. If it is just 535x530 only changing one aspect might work better. I've been pretty lucky so far and mine that needed a little adjustment just required a tweak in one aspect. Sometimes I've tried each method before I decided.
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With Photoshop I use the crop tool, by moving it close, then zoom the picture, then move the crop until it touches the edges of the circle. Then I crop it. If it's not square, then I undo crop, and try again. If it can't be done then I dump it.
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bralorne1 edited this topic 55 months ago.
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is the circle round? if so make the sides tangent and it is by definition square, no problem, if the circle isn't round thats another matter
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If you photograph a circle from an angle, the result won't be a perfect ellipse since pesky perspective messes it up. Sometimes it's not enough to worry about; sometimes it is.
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dmvwPhoto.com [deleted] says:
I had been using Photoshop, however I find that the Picnik feature included in flickr allows you to crop your images, telling it to constrain the crop to proportions (such as square). It's really easy and can be applied to photos already in your photostream.
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