Editing Question
Dec 7, 2011 01:05:56 #
I am new to editing. I have some software that came with my T2i: Digital Photo Professional, EOS Utility and Picture Style Editor. I have used Zoom Broswer EX software from an old Powershot. The problem I'm having is when I crop a picture the area that is cropped turns black. The more cropping the more black. I have been dropping photos into a video time line that I'm making and they look funny with all the black. Is there a way to crop and still keep the full frame from any of the sofware I have?
Dec 7, 2011 01:25:44 #
Dougi wrote:
I am new to editing. I have some software that cam... (show quote)
I'm not sure I understand your question, but if you mean can you crop a picture, and still retain the full size picture, the answer is yes. After cropping you need to rename the cropped photo to a different name. Say you original picture is named Horse just rename the crop Horse 1. You will then have two different size pictures. I have no clue what you are talking about with the crop turning black. Post one so we can see what you mean.
Mike
Dec 7, 2011 01:37:35 #
I'm not familiar with any of the programs you mentioned. You may get lucky and find someone here who knows those programs.
I'd suggest you either purchase a simple program of editing and enhancing like Photoshop Elements.
At a minimum I suggest you download Picasa, a free program from Google. This will easily accomplish the necessary cropping tasks you described and you'll have a lot more helpers available.
I'd suggest you either purchase a simple program of editing and enhancing like Photoshop Elements.
At a minimum I suggest you download Picasa, a free program from Google. This will easily accomplish the necessary cropping tasks you described and you'll have a lot more helpers available.
Dec 7, 2011 01:42:55 #
I don't if this will show the black area or not but it does show up in my video time line picture.
Dec 7, 2011 01:44:10 #
Dec 7, 2011 01:45:51 #
Well, It does not show up on the picture I sent. It must be the video software?
Dec 7, 2011 09:57:06 #
iresq
Loc: Annapolis MD
Not a fan of the Canon software. For simple editing (like cropping) try Picasa as mentioned above. For a little more horsepower and not that expensive, Photoshop Elements from Adobe.
Dec 8, 2011 06:54:04 #
I like the Canon software for RAW photos-- easy to use once you know the controls.
I think RenoMike is right-- click :
file
Save as...
give it a name and jpeg extension.
then you should have a copy of the photo with the cropping done.
I think RenoMike is right-- click :
file
Save as...
give it a name and jpeg extension.
then you should have a copy of the photo with the cropping done.
Dec 8, 2011 07:47:20 #
Crop in FastStone Image Viewer (free, and that's the only reason I mention it) and see what happens. Chances are that the crop has made the image smaller (obviously) and the black area in the video is due to the video's dimensions (forgive me, I'm not video savvy) . . . but, the black is most likely the negative space left from the crop. Now you could go through the trouble of upsizing the images, but then you would be dealing with resolution challenges and pixelated results.
Dec 8, 2011 09:48:48 #
Paw Paw Bill
Loc: d
Since video can stand lower resolutions than prints, you can re-size the cropped photos to the same dimensions as the original image. You will not lose visual accuity on the resulting video display.
Dec 8, 2011 13:01:13 #
FastStone Image Viewer is free and simple to use you should be able to crop for all those pic's in a video stream.
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