Looking for a freeware wallpaper creator

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Italy Anonymous Remailer

I have a lot of pictures which are smaller than my desktop that I
want to create wallpapers from. I don't want to stretch them, but
rather paste them on other backgrounds. Irfanview doesn't do the
trick (at least not easily) - could somebody please recommend a good
(free) program that does the trick & work's on Win '98?

TIA
 
PhotFiltre will do

http://www.photofiltre.com/
Direct download link:
http://Photofiltre.free.fr/utils/pf-setup.exe

It mightbe me, but as far as I know, almost any Paint/photo editing program
should be able to.

I don't know your picture editing skills so also an explanation in very
simple steps: (So don't be offended if you already know)

If you have a larger picture, and you want tu put the maller picture on top
of it:
Open the larger picture
Open the smaller picture
Select the complete smaller picture
choose 'select all' from the 'selection'menu (CTRL + A)
Choose 'Copy' from the 'Edit' menu (CTRL + C)
Select the larger Picture
Choose 'Paste' From the 'Edit' menu
PhotoFiltra will put the smaller picture right in the middle of the bigger
one. As long as the selection 'ants' are crawling around the smaller
picture, you can change the position of the picture by clicking (and holding
the mouse button down)within the smaller picture an drag it over the screen.
Afterwards you can save it (preferably unther an othe name by selecting
'Save as...' from the file menu.


If you just want to add size to a picture (and coulor the aditional space in
yourself):
Open the small picture
Choose 'Canvas size' from the 'Image' menu
Enter the new width and height (accoording to your screensize) and press
[OK]
The old picture will be placed in the middle, a white frame will appear
around it. Do whatever you want with this additional canvas.

I know it is not ideal if you have hundreds of pictures you want to edit
this way, but well... it *IS* free


MightyKitten
 
PhotFiltre will do

http://www.photofiltre.com/
Direct download link:
http://Photofiltre.free.fr/utils/pf-setup.exe

It mightbe me, but as far as I know, almost any Paint/photo editing program
should be able to.

I don't know your picture editing skills so also an explanation in very
simple steps: (So don't be offended if you already know)

If you have a larger picture, and you want tu put the maller picture on top
of it:
Open the larger picture
Open the smaller picture
Select the complete smaller picture
choose 'select all' from the 'selection'menu (CTRL + A)
Choose 'Copy' from the 'Edit' menu (CTRL + C)
Select the larger Picture
Choose 'Paste' From the 'Edit' menu
PhotoFiltra will put the smaller picture right in the middle of the bigger
one. As long as the selection 'ants' are crawling around the smaller
picture, you can change the position of the picture by clicking (and holding
the mouse button down)within the smaller picture an drag it over the screen.
Afterwards you can save it (preferably unther an othe name by selecting
'Save as...' from the file menu.


If you just want to add size to a picture (and coulor the aditional space in
yourself):
Open the small picture
Choose 'Canvas size' from the 'Image' menu
Enter the new width and height (accoording to your screensize) and press
[OK]
The old picture will be placed in the middle, a white frame will appear
around it. Do whatever you want with this additional canvas.

I know it is not ideal if you have hundreds of pictures you want to edit
this way, but well... it *IS* free


MightyKitten
Click to expand...

Thanks MightyKitten. I must admit that I did look at some others
(the site in French scared me off initially until I saw an English
version of the program & used Google to translate the site). It's
exactly what I wanted (does the job & is very easy to use). The
others I tried were very complicated & I didn't want to waste hours
just learning how to frame a few photos to set as wallpaper.

Much Appreciated - as my old boss used to say "your blood's worth
bottling!!"
 
PhotFiltre will do
Click to expand...
http://www.photofiltre.com/
Direct download link:
http://Photofiltre.free.fr/utils/pf-setup.exe
Click to expand...
It mightbe me, but as far as I know, almost any Paint/photo editing program
should be able to.
Click to expand...
I don't know your picture editing skills so also an explanation in very
simple steps: (So don't be offended if you already know)
Click to expand...
If you have a larger picture, and you want tu put the maller picture on top
of it:
Click to expand...

< snip >

Nice explanation. Thanks. You appear to understand these things well
so maybe you can answer a question for me ?

Suppose one has a picture that is 300 x 300 and one wants only a
picture 200 x 200 cut from the middle. Is there a way to do that
without doing it by manual selection ? In other words get an exact
"cut" of the 200 x 200 centre part ? If "yes" then what steps are
required please ?

Regards, John.
 
|On Fri, 30 Jan 2004 10:26:25 +0100, "MightyKitten"
|
|>PhotFiltre will do
|
|>http://www.photofiltre.com/
|>Direct download link:
|>http://Photofiltre.free.fr/utils/pf-setup.exe
|
|>It mightbe me, but as far as I know, almost any Paint/photo editing program
|>should be able to.
|
|>I don't know your picture editing skills so also an explanation in very
|>simple steps: (So don't be offended if you already know)
|
|>If you have a larger picture, and you want tu put the maller picture on top
|>of it:
|
|< snip >
|
|Nice explanation. Thanks. You appear to understand these things well
|so maybe you can answer a question for me ?
|
|Suppose one has a picture that is 300 x 300 and one wants only a
|picture 200 x 200 cut from the middle. Is there a way to do that
|without doing it by manual selection ? In other words get an exact
|"cut" of the 200 x 200 centre part ? If "yes" then what steps are
|required please ?

Irfanview can do this - you can (using "create custom selection") set a
specific size of selection box (and the position of it, if you want to), and
then you can "crop" the image to this box.

|
|Regards, John.
|
 
Italy said:
I have a lot of pictures which are smaller than my desktop that I
want to create wallpapers from. I don't want to stretch them, but
rather paste them on other backgrounds. Irfanview doesn't do the
trick (at least not easily) - could somebody please recommend a good
(free) program that does the trick & work's on Win '98?
Click to expand...
Irfanview: Select the area on the photo you want on top. Copy, in the
edit menu.
Open the background pic. Select the area you want the clipboard image to
go. Paste, in the edit menu.
Save the new combined pic with a unique filename.

I sometimes use Desktop Architect [themes] for small pics. Center the
image and select a complimentary Pattern for the background.
[ot] you can get the Disabled text to match the message-box by tapping the
3d slider without moving it, it will also alter your Grayed text tho.
Otherwise you have to play with the 3d-Hi-light and 3d-shadow in the
drop-down menu.
 
Well John the answere is "Yes"
And you can also do it do it with Photofiltre

It is quite the same as adding a frame of white to the photo, but in stead
of enlarging it, you will need

If you just want to add size to a picture (and coulor the aditional space in
yourself):
Open the small picture
Choose 'Canvas size' from the 'Image' menu
Enter the new width and height (200 and 200 according to your
specifications)
and Press[OK]
The old picture will be placed in the middle, a white frame will appear
around it. Do whatever you want with this additional canvas.

The canvas resise function will find the middle
1 pixel (odd x odd nr of pixels) ,
2 pixels (odd x even or even x odd nr of pixels) or
4 pixels (even x even nr of pixels)
and work from there.
So actually,it will be harder (read you will select it manually) if you want
to do this out of the middle. It might be that Mr. Da Cruz has programmed
this function in a whole difernt way, but it is just a way for me to
understand what the function will do to a picture


For those who downloaded PhotoFiltre When it was first discussed in this
newsgroup: The website has changed a bit and there are more photomasks,
custom selections and textures to download... I think we might be pushing
him to keep it freeware ;-)

Hope you find this usefull

Mighty Kitten



"John Fitzsimons" <[email protected]> schreef in bericht
 
Shuttlecock said:
Italy said:
I have a lot of pictures which are smaller than my desktop that I
want to create wallpapers from. I don't want to stretch them, but
rather paste them on other backgrounds. Irfanview doesn't do the
trick (at least not easily) - could somebody please recommend a good
(free) program that does the trick & work's on Win '98?
Click to expand...
Irfanview: Select the area on the photo you want on top. Copy, in the
edit menu.
Open the background pic. Select the area you want the clipboard image to
go. Paste, in the edit menu.
Save the new combined pic with a unique filename.

I sometimes use Desktop Architect [themes] for small pics. Center the
image and select a complimentary Pattern for the background.
[ot] you can get the Disabled text to match the message-box by tapping the
3d slider without moving it, it will also alter your Grayed text tho.
Otherwise you have to play with the 3d-Hi-light and 3d-shadow in the
drop-down menu.
Click to expand...

I've had DA since god knows when (atleast a couple years before the homepage
for it changed) and it worked like a dream on my 95 system, but haven't been
able to use it on my 98 system as it keeps crashing (illegal op's all over
the place)

--
Regards

Steven Burn
Ur I.T. Mate Group
www.it-mate.co.uk

Keeping it FREE!

Disclaimer:
I know I'm probably wrong, I just like taking part ;o)
 
|On Fri, 30 Jan 2004 10:26:25 +0100, "MightyKitten"
|<[email protected]> wrote:
Click to expand...

|Suppose one has a picture that is 300 x 300 and one wants only a
|picture 200 x 200 cut from the middle. Is there a way to do that
|without doing it by manual selection ? In other words get an exact
|"cut" of the 200 x 200 centre part ? If "yes" then what steps are
|required please ?
Click to expand...
Irfanview can do this - you can (using "create custom selection") set a
specific size of selection box (and the position of it, if you want to), and
then you can "crop" the image to this box.
Click to expand...

Thanks. But I couldn't get it to work.

This is what I did :

Opened a 800 x 600 Pixels jpg.

Selected Edit - Custom selection.

Left the co-ordinates at 0 as I had no idea what the co-ordinates of a
centre of a .jpg would be. (Presumably different with each picture ?).

Set the width and height at 100.

Pressed "apply".

The "selection" was in the top L.H.S. corner. NOT in the middle of the
original picture, as I had wanted.

Regards, John.
 
"John Fitzsimons" <[email protected]> schreef in bericht
Click to expand...
It is quite the same as adding a frame of white to the photo, but in stead
of enlarging it, you will need
Click to expand...
If you just want to add size to a picture (and coulor the aditional space in
yourself):
Click to expand...

That isn't what I want. I want to reduce the size. Cutting just 200 x
200 of a 300 x 300 original.
Open the small picture
Choose 'Canvas size' from the 'Image' menu
Enter the new width and height (200 and 200 according to your
specifications)
and Press[OK]
The old picture will be placed in the middle,
Click to expand...

Wouldn't that give me all of the original picture ?
a white frame will appear
around it. Do whatever you want with this additional canvas.
Click to expand...

Well, I wouldn't want it. No idea how I would remove only that part.
Other than manually.
The canvas resise function will find the middle
1 pixel (odd x odd nr of pixels) ,
2 pixels (odd x even or even x odd nr of pixels) or
4 pixels (even x even nr of pixels)
and work from there.
So actually,it will be harder (read you will select it manually) if you want
to do this out of the middle. It might be that Mr. Da Cruz has programmed
this function in a whole difernt way, but it is just a way for me to
understand what the function will do to a picture
Click to expand...

Thanks for the attempted explanation. I cannot work out the answer so
I guess I will just file this in my "Mission Impossible" file.

Regards, John.
 
John Fitzsimons said:
Suppose one has a picture that is 300 x 300 and one wants only a
picture 200 x 200 cut from the middle. Is there a way to do that
without doing it by manual selection ? In other words get an exact
"cut" of the 200 x 200 centre part ? If "yes" then what steps are
required please ?

Regards, John.
Click to expand...

my fix it with a hammer solution:

open mspaint.

open your 300x300 pic.


WIDTH:
hit ctrl-E and resize the width to 250.

hit ctrl-R and flip horizontally.

hit ctrl-E and resize the width to 200.


HEIGHT:
hit ctrl-E and resize the height to 250.

hit ctrl-R and flip vertically.

hit ctrl-E and resize the height to 200.


LAST STEP:
hit ctrl-R and flip until the image is right side up.
 
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