Image Processing

Image Processing

©
Copyright William Rowan 2007

Objectives

By the end of this you will be able to:


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Manipulate images to achieve special
effects

Image Processing

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A programme such as Microsoft Picture It!
will allow you to manipulate an image to
achieve any special effects that you want

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Microsoft Paint also has the ability to
manipulate images and some of the options
discussed are common to both packages


Microsoft Paint

Image Processing

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Once you have opened Microsoft Picture
It! You can then use the tools included in
the programme to change the image

Image Processing

Available tools to edit image:




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Add Something

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Edges

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Effects

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Touch up

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Crop or Rotate

Image Processing

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Each of these tools expand further into a
wider range of tools that can be used when
editing image

Using the Crop Tool

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When you select the “
Crop
” tool in the
image processing package it will allow you
to trim the outer area of the image

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To do this you will need to open an image
that you want to crop

Using the Crop Tool

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Select the “
Crop or rotate
” button and
select “
Crop canvas
”

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This will open a new menu

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On this menu you can

select the size you want

your image to be and
select the shape for the crop


Using the Crop Tool

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If you are not sure what size you want the
image to be, simply use the mouse and
keeping the left button pressed drag a box
around the area of the image you want to
crop (see next slide)


Using the Crop Tool

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You can alter the cropped size of the
image by clicking on the yellow tabs
around the image and dragging them to a
desired size

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You can also rotate the position of the crop
area by clicking on and drag it around to
the required position

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Once you are happy with the size and
position press the button

Using the Crop Tool






Before Crop was





applied








After Crop was






applied

Using the Rotate Tool

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By selecting the rotate tool in the editing
programme you can rotate the picture to a
desired position

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Again a new menu will appear showing the
possible options for rotation


Using the Rotate Tool

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Once you have completed


the required rotation


press the


at the bottom of


the screen

Using the Touch
-
up tool

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When you select the Touch
-
up tool a larger
menu expands

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Depending on the effect you that you want
to achieve will depend on what function you
chose

Using the Effects tool

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Using this tool allows you to achieve the
special effects shown below

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To select any of the effects simply click on it
to use it

Using the Effects tool


Image after using the
“
Negative
” effect

Using the Edges tool

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This tool will allow you to apply an edge to
your image


Image source:
http://windsurfing.ifrance.com/windsurfing/images/mars03b.jpg


Using the Add tool

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With this function it will allow you to add
the following to your image:


Using the Add tool

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By clicking on any of the additional menu
buttons, a new menu will be shown so that
you can pick the feature you require to edit
your image

Using the Add tool


Image source:
http://www.corvetteracing.com/pictures/2006/lagunaseca/pages/lagunaseca011_jpg.shtml


Image manipulation

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You can also manipulate an image in any
Microsoft Office programme

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To do this you must turn on the “
Picture
”
toolbar (this is done by right clicking on any
toolbar and selecting “
Picture
”)

Image manipulation

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When the image is inserted into Word,
PowerPoint, etc… you can crop, rotate
change colours, etc…

Now You Try!

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On the internet search for an image of any
model of a car you like

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Save the image to your computer

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Using an image processing software
package, manipulate the image to give
special effects such as “black and white”,
etc….