How to crop your image for printing by Spruance Enterprises

  1. Print out this document and follow these instructions.
  2. Go to spruance.com/gallery.htm and select the gallery where your image is located.
  3. Double click on the thumbnail of your image to enlarge the image.
  4. On your keyboard select ALT and PRTSCN.
  5. This will copy the image to your computers memory.
  6. Open Microsoft  Word. Select Ctrl V to paste the image into Word.
  7. If you don’t have Word try to paste (Ctrl V)the image in another program, print it and crop it with a pencil or pen and mail it to me with your check.
  8. You should end up with something like the image below:

 

  1. In the Word menu system select View/Toolbars/Picture.
  2. Select the picture with your mouse and the picture will show a thin dark border with cropping handles.
  3. In the Picture toolbar you will see a tool that looks like 2 x's  . This is the crop tool.
  4. You put the crop tool in the upper left hand corner of the image first over a cropping handle.
  5. Hold down the mouse button and start to crop the image from left to right and top to bottom.
  6. Let go of the mouse when you have the crop the way you want it.

           See below:

  1. Next move the mouse with the crop tool to the upper right hand corner.
  2. Make sure that the image is still selected and has the thin black border around it.
  3. Now crop the Left side of the image.

  1. If you want to use the lower crop handles follow the same procedure.
  2. Save the file in Word with the following information included and e-mail it to spruance@spruance.com
  1. Remember that all images must be printed in a ratio like 8x10, 11x14 etc. so the final print may have
  2. to be slightly modified. There is a limitation on sharpness on large blow up images.
  3. Please make sure that you include the image # (3UB2383) somewhere in the document or on your check and indicate which picture mode you want Landscape or Portrait.
  4.  

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1350 River Reach Drive #210

Fort Lauderdale
, FL  33315

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