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Clicking Undo or pressing (Ctrl+Z) removes the last change made. Undo can be clicked as many times as there are actions to undo. |
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Clicking Redo or pressing (F4) will redo any actions that were undone using the Undo option. Redo can be clicked as many times as there are actions to redo. |
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Clicking this or pressing (Ctrl+X) will erase the entire image or selected (highlighted) area from the current document and place it in the windows clipboard so you can paste it a new image, an existing image, or in another graphics program. |
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Clicking this or pressing (Ctrl+C) will copy the entire image or selected (highlighted) area to the Windows clipboard where you can paste it in a new image, existing image, or another graphics program. |
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Clicking this or pressing (Ctrl+V) will copy whatever data that is in the windows clipboard to the currently open image. |
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Clicking this will flip the currently selected image from top to bottom. Before
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Clicking this will reverse the bitmap (left to right) to produce a mirror image. A mirror copy is what you would get if you held the image up to a mirror. This is needed for several things including creating images for iron-on transfers. Before
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This will display the Batch Image Sizer window. You add the files you want to resize to the list; add the height and width you want the new images to be; select any additional options you want; then click on the resize images button or press (Ctrl+R). MORE |
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Click this or press (Alt+Home) to resample the image. Resample not only resizes the image but it also changes the storage requirements of the image, often producing a better quality image. When resampling the pixels in the image are "resampled" using a bilinear interpolation algorithm. Although this usually produces a better quality image than the Resize method, it takes longer to perform the task. MORE |
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Click this or press (Alt+End) to resample the image. A Bicubic resample not only resizes the image but it also changes the storage requirements of the image, often producing a better quality image. When resampling the pixels in the image are "resampled" using a bicubic interpolation algorithm. Although this usually produces a better quality image than the Resize method, it takes longer to perform the task. MORE |
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Click this or press (Shift+Ins) after you have selected a region in your image. The area you have selected will now be displayed separately, allowing you to modify or save the region only. This feature is very useful if you want eliminate unwanted portions of an image. Simply select the portion of the image you want to keep and the choose crop and the rest of the image will be removed. |
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Clicking this or pressing (Shift+U) will trim the current image's bitmap, removing blank space (usually white space) around the edges. The threshold is a delta value for detecting blank space. Starting at each edge of the bitmap and evaluating toward the center, any change in intensity that is less than or equal to iThreshold is considered blank space. Valid values are 0 to 244. |
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Clicking this will display a window asking for a password and whether you want to encrypt or decrypt an image. Encrypting an image prevents anyone from viewing the image unless they decrypt it using Image Explorer Pro's decrypt option. To decrypt the image, the same password used to encrypt the image must be put in the password box. |
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Clicking this will annotate or stamp the time on an image. |