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How to re-size individual images in piddix digital collage sheets using a .jpg file and Microsoft Word For those of you with a graphic design program, such as Photoshop, it's fairly easy to select part of the collage sheet, paste the element into a new file, and re-size it. But what if you don't have Photoshop? These instructions show you how to do a similar task with Word. 1. Open a new, blank Microsoft Word document. These instructions are for Office 2008 on a Mac, but should be pretty close for other versions as well. 2. Remove margins in your word document. File tab/Page Setup/Settings for Microsoft Word/margins and make the margins as small as possible. Normally .17 on top and bottom and .25 on left and right. 3. Go to insert/picture/from file and then select the .jpg file. It will paste the file into your word document. To re-size the entire document: 1. Double click on the image, go to the size tab, and adjust the percentage. It’s best to keep the same ratio (don’t make the height 150% and the width 83% or it will look distorted). To select one section of an image to resize or duplicate: 1. Go to view menu and turn on the Formatting Palette toolbar. 2. Click on the jpg. Under Picture, click Crop, and then drag the handles on the image until you have selected the part you like. To be very precise, you’ll want to zoom in (View/Zoom) and then hold down the command key while moving the handles. If you don’t crop it exactly right the first time, select the image again and then select Crop again. 3. Once you’ve selected the portion you like, you can select the image and then copy (command c) and paste (command v) it as many times as you’d like. 4. To re-size one of your images, double click on the image and then change the size tab to whatever you’d like. If there’s an exact size (say 1 inch by two inches) it’s important that your crop be as close to the edge of the selection as possible, since the white space around the image is included in the size as well (or, factor the white space in and make the image a little bigger than you actually need. 5. To select part of an image in a certain ratio (say one wide by two high), select the image, choose Crop, and then under Size, Rotation and Ordering (under the Formatting Palette), try to crop the image to the 1 to 2 ration. You can then re-size once you’ve cropped it. 6. To crop another image, or to bring back the original file, select one of the cropped images and then choose Reset in the formatting palette. Keep in mind this process can create fairly large files, since even once you’ve “cropped” an image, the entire original is still hiding behind the cropped version.
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