I started on a project about midnight that I probably should have put off, then realized if I put it aside without finishing it I was going to end up with a mess on my hands. To be specific, locating good images for all of Arch Arthur's ribbons (We never had a Dog with a Distinguished Flying Cross before) took some time, and mainly I had a learning process to go through figuring out how to crop and resize images with the software available on my new computer that I just moved to last week (a gift from one of the Dogs, as you may recall). The old computer's 5 feet away, connected to the same home network, and if I had it to do over again I'd email myself some images, edit them using the software on the old system, then send them back to myself. Thing is, the old computer's moving about 40 feet farther away sometime in the next couple of weeks and I really want to reach the point where I don't have to be knocking around in the other end of the house in the middle of the night to do things.

Tech support bleg: Can anyone recommend a good free or really inexpensive replacement for Microsoft Photo Editor? I need something I can create a new blank image in, paste in a screen shot, then crop and resize the shot, possibly resizing the image by different ratios in the vertical and horizontal dimensions, all in one program. I'm limping along using Microsoft Paint, Microsoft Office Picture Manager, Microsoft Front Page, and Internet Explorer 7 to eventually end up with what I need but it's slow and tedious. I have some fancier stuff available that would do the job but it's overkill and takes forever to load, not to mention I haven't learned to use it yet.  Anyone have any good ideas?

Contributed by Bill Faith on March 13, 2007 at 01:05 PM | Permalink

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