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Microsoft Picture It! Companion Guide
Chapter 3: Opening Photos in Picture It!
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To capture an image from a Web page, you can drag it from the Web page to the
Picture It! Tray.
To open a photo from a Web page in Picture It!:
1 Make sure both Picture It! and your Web browser (either Microsoft
Internet Explorer or MSN Explorer) are open and running on your
computer.
A button for each program is in the taskbar along the bottom of the
screen.
2 In your Web browser, locate the Web page that contains the photo you
want.
3 Click the photo, hold down the mouse button, and drag the photo down to
the Picture It! button on the taskbar. Pause on the Picture It! button.
The Picture It! window opens.
4 Drag the pointer to the Picture It! Tray.
The photo appears in the Tray and on the canvas.
Once the photo is opened in Picture It!, you can edit it as you would any other
photo and save it to your computer.
Opening a Photo from MSN Photos
MSN Photos is an online photo Web site that enables you to share and organize
photos, as well as order prints and gifts. Picture It! and MSN Photos are
designed to be used together, with MSN Photos offering services and informa-
tion only available on the Internet. Many of the features of MSN Photos can be
accessed directly from Picture It!.
Saving images
from a Web site
When saving an image
from the Web, make
sure to click
Save AsSave As
Save AsSave As
Save As
on the
FileFile
FileFile
File menu so
you can specify the
folder where the image
is saved. Otherwise,
the image may be
saved in a temporary
Internet files folder.
Signing up with
Microsoft .NET
Passport
To use MSN Photos,
you must have a
Microsoft .NET
Passport. All
hotmail.com and
msn.com e-mail
addresses are .NET
Passports. If you don’t
yet have a .NET
Passport, it’s free to
sign up, and you can
get to the sign-up page
by following the
instructions for saving
to MSN Photos.