Preview – part I
By macstarter | March 6th, 2010 | Category: Tutorials | 3 commentsWhat are you Looking at?
Macs come with an amazing program built right into the system, for free. Free. I thought that might catch your attention…..
When you double click a photo, a picture, or a PDF file, Preview normally opens up. You look at the photo, picture or PDF and then close Preview. Job done. But you can do a whole lot more with Preview. Let me paint the picture:
Rotating
Someone sends you a photo by email, but it’s not the right way up, instead it’s wrongly rotated (you won’t believe how often this happens). Open the photo up with Preview (if it doesn’t open up in Preview see below). Now click the shortcut cmd + r to rotate the picture. You may have to do it a couple of times until the picture is correctly oriented. Now save the picture (cmd + s). Easy.
Cropping
You take a photo, or a screenshot and you notice that you only need a portion of the photo / screenshot. In other words you need to crop or cut away the extra parts of your picture. Make sure that you have the “select” button clicked. Now select the area that you want to keep, and click on Tools and choose “crop” (shortcut cmd + k).
Everything else but the area you wanted to keep now disappears. Save this picture.
Watch out for Part II, where we talk about even more Preview tricks!
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