Paint Tips and Tricks

To set the "Paint able" area of the screen save a file with the "Paint able" area set to 100x100. I like to name such a files "$ clean" so they are at the top of the pile.

To capture a image at or near your screen proportions.

Get the image into Paint, enlarge or shrink so it is centered and visible on your screen.

Then use a sewing thread stretch it diagonally from corner to corner of your screen. Use the paint tool "Brush" to place a dot outside the border where the string passes through the image border.

The two dots form the opposing corners of a rectangle at roughly the same proportions as your screen.

Using the rectangular "Select" tool copy the image using the dots as diagonal corners and then paste back into a new paint page.

Save it away for use as desktop screen saver.

The Mad Hacker in SC