How to crop, resize and insert your name on Sealine upload pics

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This is a very basic, but very powerful application I stumbled onto recently. It’s small easy to download, install and most of all to understand. For all those BBC (Born before Computers) folks out there, if you can manage Sealine then this application is a breeze!

 

It cannot do all the fancy manipulation that PhotoShop, Coral, MS Picture Editor………can do, but for posting pics on Sealine it’s a Gem.

 

It does have excellent basic functions to play with and you can get a bit arty of some of them………have a fiddle.

 

What makes this little application great is the ability to take a 3-4 Meg photo down to 100 -200 KB while still retaining 50 – 100% of its original size and quality.[/b]

 

Here goes the tutorial!

 

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This is what the main page looks like. A simple array of dropdowns & option buttons (top left) and all that you are required to master.

 

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To open an image, click on the ‘yellow folder’[/b] in the top left hand corner.

 

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Browse on the inline frame to select the folder where your image is stored. Select your image and it will open in the screen.

 

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If you want to crop the image down, simply left click and draw you’re cropping preference over the image.

 

Cropping often helps clarify your fish, removes pedestrians and also helps reduce image and file sizes.

 

If you don’t want to crop the image then skip image 5 and follow on from image 6[/b]

 

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Once you have drawn your cropping preference click the ‘edit’[/b] dropdown to find the cropping options. The cropped image will now appear on screen

 

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To post an image on Sealine you normally would have to resize STD image sizes. To do this click on the ’image’[/b] dropdown and then click on the ‘resize/resample’[/b] option.

 

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The inline frame will appear, select the required image size. A width of 800 is a nice big bragging size on Sealine.

 

Click ‘OK’[/b]

 

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To place your text name into the image, left click and like with the crop function draw you text block position you require on the image.

 

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Click the ‘edit’ [/b]dropdown (top left) and click on the ‘insert text into selection’[/b] option.

 

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First inline window will be where you type your required text, click the ‘Choose Font’ [/b]button to open the second inline frame where you can format your text.

 

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Your cropped, resized and text inserted image ready to save to a folder.

 

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On the ‘File’[/b] dropdown click the ‘Save for Web’ [/b]option

 

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Adjust the image quality[/b] you require, but be mindful of the resulting image file size[/b]. Once completed click the ‘Save As’[/b] button on the top right.

 

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A save as[/b] inline frame will appear, simply browse to the folder where you want to save the image, rename the modified image and click ‘Save’[/b].

 

Close down the image and the application and the job is complete and ready to post on Sealine!

 

Have Fun! Regards,

 

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[Jazz]

trophy yet again you are da man!!!!!! you really do go the extra mile for the rest of us and its really appreciated!

 

[Gerhard]

Wow..

Again What a tutorial!!!!!

Well Done

 

[kitefisher]

Excellent ,thanks a stack.

 

[kopstamp]

Thanks trophy

Yet again a awesome post.

 

[sparticus]

Thats about the best non angling post I have ever witnessed !! Mana for you trophy , your quest to go out of your way to help others continues to amaze me.