To let you know, I really have a different way of editing screenshots that should be embedded into my blogposts. I was thinking of writing how I do that, but just don’t have an interest to write about it. But since our fellow Bisaya blogger asked me about it, so I will tell you now my secret.

Below is part of his email. The email is written in Bisaya, so I translated it to English.

Hi Sel!

I know that when editing photo and images, we need to use photo editor like Photoshop. But I found it time consuming to use Photoshop when editing screenshots for my blogpost. …

Will you please tell me how you edit the screenshots embedded with your blogposts?

If you’ll check the screenshots or images posted along with my blogposts, you’ll notice 2 things. And these are my signature. If you see this with the images posted on the other blogs, you can immediately say that these images are edited by me.

But I think, it couldn’t remain as my signature because you’ll know now the method that I use to edit screenshots and images for this blog.

What are these signatures?

Okay. Take a look at the image below.

The URL printed at the bottom of the image is not actually the signature that I want you to notice. I am not using that on the images posted on this blog. The signature that I am telling you are:

1. The border
   The border is unique, isn’t it. You can’t find it at the Photoshop. And yes, you can create border like this using the Photoshop but it’s really time consuming.
2. The width
   If you’ll measure the width of the image, you’ll get 4 and 2/8 inches.

So, what’s the secret?

In doing this, you need to use two software application that are native on your Windows OS.

1. MS Paint
   This is used to save the edited images into JPEG format.
2. Microsoft Word
   Use to edit screenshots and images to look like the sample image above and to bear the signature that I was telling.

How to do it?

So here’s how:

1. If you want to upload a photo or image, so open it using the photo viewer. Your Windows OS has this. However, if you want to post the image of a website, graph or anything on the internet, just browse it and make sure that it is the very top window.
2. Press the PRINT SCREEN key of your keyboard. Usually, it is found at the right – top most area of your keyboard. Pressing this key tells Windows OS to paste the screenshot to the computer’s memory.
3. Open your MS Word and paste the screenshot into the new and blank document. You can use the CTL+V way to paste the screenshot or you can right-click your mouse and then click PASTE.
4. Once the screenshot is already pasted on the document, click the screenshot image. The toolbar that looks like the toolbar below will appear.
   
5. Click the CROP button on that toolbar. The one encircled with red color is the crop button. Then crop the part of the screenshot that is not needed.
6. Then stretch the image and have it have 4 and 2/8 inches width. Use the ruler of the MS Word in measuring the width. The ruler is the one that you see above the document that contains measurement. This can be showed when viewing the PRINT LAYOUT (click VIEW then PRINT LAYOUT) of the document.
7. Se the zoom into 100% and then press the PRINT SCREEN key again.
8. Open your MS Paint and paste the screenshot. Crop again the part that is not needed and then save the image into JPEG format.
9. The image is now ready to be uploaded.

For the first time user of this method, maybe he’ll find it hard. But once you mastered it already, editing a screenshot to bear my signature will just take you less than a minute.

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