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How to do various things with images and video (on Windows)

How to do various things with images

  1. How to do screen capture:
    1. PrintScreen (whole screen) or Alt-PrintScreen (active window)
    2. Microsoft Photo Editor
    3. Paste as new image
    Or:
    1. Print Screen or Alt-PrintScreen
    2. Microsoft Paint
    3. Paste
    Or:
    1. ArcSoft PhotoStudio
    2. File - Capture - Desktop
    3. Click on window you want to capture

  2. How to Crop in Microsoft Paint:
    1. Move mouse to bottom RHS corner and note (in status line) pixels Width,Height
    2. Image - Attributes - (Enter pixels Width and Height)

  3. How to write a line of text on top of an image:
    1. Microsoft Paint: "A" icon.
    2. Pick icon for transparent / not-transparent.
    3. Pick color.
    4. Pop-up gives font, size, etc.
    Or:
    1. Make a table with a background-image and then write text in the table.

  4. How to generate an icon with words in it:
    1. Write in HTML and do screen capture

  5. How to convert (a color map say) to black and white
    1. Microsoft Photo Editor
    2. File-Properties-Greyscale
    3. save as JPEG

  6. How to highlight (say places on a map) in Yellow:
    1. iPhoto Express
    2. Photo-convert-color
    3. Enhance-Paint-Mark pen, yellow
    4. save
    Or:
    1. Imaging for Windows
    2. to start: Annotation - Highlighter
    3. draw (is rectangle - drag with mouse to set thickness)
    4. to stop: Annotation - Select Annotations
    5. RHS click - Properties
    Or:
    1. ArcSoft PhotoStudio
    2. icon - Paintbrush tool - thickness and transparency along bottom
    3. icon - Pen tool - thick - transparency 70 percent - single click for centre of circle
    Or:
    1. Microsoft Paint
    2. Brush

How to do screen capture from video

  1. How to do screen capture from video:

  2. How to do screen capture from Windows Media Player:
    1. Ctrl-I saves current frame as JPG

  3. How to do screen capture from QuickTime:
    1. Play inside IE browser and PrintScreen screen capture as normal.

  4. How to do screen capture from other video:
    1. MPUI - press "S" to grab screenshot

How to Rotate video

How to Light adjust video

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IE v. Firefox

My current setup is: IE or Firefox browser, Mozilla Thunderbird email, NoteTab web page editor:


  1. IE:
    1. BAD - Edit button can launch 3rd party programs. But to make Edit button launch NoteTab text editor, have to edit registry.
    2. BAD - IE on Vista cannot display remote WebDrive pages. Need "Enable Protected Mode" off, but this is security risk. Can't seem to get WebDrive site (file://webdrive) into "Trusted sites".
    3. GOOD - When highlighting items in a list in bold:

    4. BAD - When following a link to: file.html#label, IE takes me to: file.html (i.e. jumps me to the top of the page).
      • Solution: Open link in new window (shift-click) works (jumps to label). Set up function key using Perfect Keyboard to do this.
    5. BAD - Clicking "Refresh" jumps me to the top of the page.
      • Solution: Ctrl-R works (keeps position).
    6. GOOD - "New Window" keeps old window's "Back" history.
    7. GOOD - "New Tab" can load home page.
    8. GOOD - Browse directory is proper file system - can delete files etc. Very useful.


  2. Firefox:
    1. GOOD - No "Edit" button. But "View Source" (Ctrl-U) can launch 3rd party editing programs. To make "View Source" launch NoteTab text editor:
      1. about:config
      2. view_source.editor.external - true
      3. view_source.editor.path - path of NoteTab editor
    2. GOOD - Works fine with WebDrive on Vista.
    3. GOOD - Used to have bug here, but now fixed. When highlighting items in a list in bold:

    4. GOOD - file.html#label works fine.
    5. GOOD - "Refresh" works fine.
    6. BAD - "New Window" is home page with no history.
    7. BAD - "New Tab" is blank page.
    8. MEDIUM - Browse directory is normal web page. Useful for browsing UNIX files (with no file extensions, or random extensions). Can't delete files though.

Printing

HTML

ASCII characters

Colors


light versions of red, green, blue:

 
This is bgcolor=#ffcccc
This is bgcolor=#ccffcc
This is bgcolor=#ccccff
 
This is bgcolor=#ffdddd
This is bgcolor=#ddffdd
This is bgcolor=#ddddff
 
This is bgcolor=#ffeeee
This is bgcolor=#eeffee
This is bgcolor=#eeeeff
 

light versions of cyan, magenta, yellow:

 
This is bgcolor=#ccffff
This is bgcolor=#ffccff
This is bgcolor=#ffffcc
 
This is bgcolor=#ddffff
This is bgcolor=#ffddff
This is bgcolor=#ffffdd
 
This is bgcolor=#eeffff
This is bgcolor=#ffeeff
This is bgcolor=#ffffee
 

light grey:

 
This is bgcolor=#cccccc
 
This is bgcolor=#dddddd
 
This is bgcolor=#eeeeee
 


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