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<p>[QUOTE="ksmooter61, post: 26360698, member: 169607"]After taking all of the pictures and loading onto the laptop it's time to get them ready for viewing. I bought my laptop loaded with MS Office, as I have used it my entire professional life and am comfortable with all of the aps. I use Photos for editing and start by double-clicking the jpg to open.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1682420[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Click Edit, then the background icon.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1682421[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Select Replace (far right) and set the Hex to d9d9d9 (very light gray). The shadows are mostly erased, but often some edges are a little soft, and sometimes it even eats into the rim a little, but for the most part it looks good.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1682422[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Then crop it. I get as close as possible to the edges without overlapping, and on the final adjustment make sure that it is perfectly square (it will show pixel counts for both width and height as you adjust)</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1682424[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Then save, and we have a keeper! The original was too large to load so I had to take a snip of it.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1682429[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="ksmooter61, post: 26360698, member: 169607"]After taking all of the pictures and loading onto the laptop it's time to get them ready for viewing. I bought my laptop loaded with MS Office, as I have used it my entire professional life and am comfortable with all of the aps. I use Photos for editing and start by double-clicking the jpg to open. [ATTACH=full]1682420[/ATTACH] Click Edit, then the background icon. [ATTACH=full]1682421[/ATTACH] Select Replace (far right) and set the Hex to d9d9d9 (very light gray). The shadows are mostly erased, but often some edges are a little soft, and sometimes it even eats into the rim a little, but for the most part it looks good. [ATTACH=full]1682422[/ATTACH] Then crop it. I get as close as possible to the edges without overlapping, and on the final adjustment make sure that it is perfectly square (it will show pixel counts for both width and height as you adjust) [ATTACH=full]1682424[/ATTACH] Then save, and we have a keeper! The original was too large to load so I had to take a snip of it. [ATTACH=full]1682429[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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