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599117 2007-10-07 23:20:00 I've just upgraded from Win98 to WinXP and Office 97 to Office 2003 and am loving it, especially the Microsoft Office Picture Manager. There is just one more thing that I'm needing. Does anyone know of a free picture software that allows me to cut out images (people)? Raewyn (946)
599118 2007-10-07 23:36:00 You could try Photo Story (www.microsoft.com)

You have to validate before you download it.

Or Ifranview (http://www.irfanview.com)

Or Picasa (http://picasa.google.com/)

Dont know if Picasa cuts/crops tho.

Its a bit tricky cutting out 1 person tho, if this is all you want to do.

Most programs, let you cut / crop out a background as well.
Speedy Gonzales (78)
599119 2007-10-07 23:39:00 Photoshop elements using Pen tool will do it although Photoshop Elements isn't free. Usually the stuff you pay for tends to have the best tools when it comes to design software.
Glad to see you have moved to more "current" times regarding computing technology.
winmacguy (3367)
599120 2007-10-07 23:56:00 Does anyone know of a free picture software that allows me to cut out images (people)?It's a fairly complex tool you need for that which doesn't come with any free software, to my knowledge.

Of course Picture Manager allows cropping of images using the Crop tool, but is limited to squares/rectangles.
Greg (193)
599121 2007-10-07 23:57:00 I'm wanting to trace around a person and cut them out and put them on a white background if that makes sense? Yeah, I'm a bit slow when it comes to upgrading stuff. I only bought my very first DVD player 2 months ago - lol! Raewyn (946)
599122 2007-10-07 23:58:00 Oh okays, maybe I can buy something on Trade Me. Any suggestions? :-) Raewyn (946)
599123 2007-10-08 00:06:00 Might be better if u had a scanner, and cut the pic out then scan it.

Then insert / add the pic in whatever program.
Speedy Gonzales (78)
599124 2007-10-08 00:09:00 I'm working with digital photos and they're going on a white webpage. Raewyn (946)
599125 2007-10-08 00:21:00 I'm wanting to trace around a person and cut them out and put them on a white background if that makes sense? Yeah, I'm a bit slow when it comes to upgrading stuff. I only bought my very first DVD player 2 months ago - lol!

It makes a lot of sense Raewyn, your talking about standard stuff that you can do in Photoshop or any decent image editing program.
You could try getting
Photoshop WOW (possibly from the library)
or
Photoshop Studio by Bert Monroy
Both of which are excellent books, the latter one is better, for learning how to from scratch in Photoshop

otherwise just keep looking around to see what free stuff there is.
You can actually download a trial version of Photoshop CS3 from Adobe - 30 day trial period
winmacguy (3367)
599126 2007-10-08 00:26:00 Cool - I'll have a look at this photoshop thingie - thanks :-) Raewyn (946)
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