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When you first transfer digital photos from the memory card in your camera, they usually need some tweaking. Most likely you’ll need to save them in a different format. While you may have captured the right number of pixels, the resolution is often set to a number that makes the printable size outrageously large. In those cases you can either resize or resample. This tutorial will cover all these scenarios. It also includes some scripts to help automate these processes.

Often when you are working with digital photographs, there are parts of the image you no longer want. With the multi-megapixel images taken by the latest digital cameras, you can crop and still have plenty of pixels left over for a high quality image. It is also helpful to rotate images to get exactly what you want in the photo's frame. This tutorial will cover several different methods for cropping and rotating.

Topics covered include the following:

• Eleven page printable PDF file with detailed instructions
• Understanding pixels, inches and dpi
• Changing an image size without degrading the image
• Resampling an image to other sizes
• Using Batch Process to automate the tasks discussed
• Scripts supplied for changing resolution to 150 dpi and 300 dpi (Corel PHOTO-PAINT 11-X4)
• Scripts supplied for resampling to widths of 800, 600 and 400 pixels (Corel PHOTO-PAINT 11-X4)
• VBA Macro supplied to resample to widths of 800, 600 and 400 pixels or change resolution to 150 and 300 dpi with one click
• Basic cropping
• Cropping to an exact size
• Crop to mask
• Crop border color
• Paper size
• Rotating with the crop tool
• Rotating images
• Using the Straighten Image Lab added in Corel PHOTO-PAINT X4 (obviously won't be in previous versions)
• Seventeen minutes of tutorial movies showing each of the tasks in action