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arthurbach4 · Apr 30, 2009, 03:55 PM

I want to crop an imported file in MS paint. When I import it the picture is way bigger than the screen and so I wish to reduce the size somehow to then see what I need to crop.

As far as I can work out, however, I am only able to zoom IN and not OUT. Well at least not smaller than 100% which, in my case, is still too big.

Any ideas?

Thanks.

Krazi · Apr 30, 2009, 04:07 PM

How to Zoom in on a Photo in Microsoft Paint: 6 steps - wikiHow

arthurbach4 · Apr 30, 2009, 04:44 PM

Thanks for that. I think, though that site mentions how to enlarge a picture rather than make it smaller.

Thanks anyway.

Krazi · Apr 30, 2009, 04:55 PM

Once you click on the magnify icon you use control button and the arows to enlarge or to shrink the size.

A faster way is to click the magnify icon and then left click mouse button to enlarge or right click mouse button to shrink.

mac905 · Aug 21, 2009, 10:22 AM

I am also having truble with the zoom on MS Paint also in that "normal" size is not available/not highlighted. I tried the above suggestion to no avail. I am able to downsize a print by picking "make it 1 page" from "file > print" but cannot change the on-screen size by moving the lower right hand corner arrow or right clicking from magnify.

ardyanovich · Apr 18, 2010, 05:09 AM

One option is to click on the "select" button on the left sidebar. After that, you right-click on the image and select "Stretch/Skew" from the menu. Then, on the "Stretch and Skew" menu, you can put in 50% on the "horizontal" option and 50% for the "vertical". This has the effect of making the image half the size of the original. Of course, you can put any percentage under 100 to zoom out and any percentage above 100 to zoom in.

ardyanovich · Apr 18, 2010, 05:09 AM

One option is to click on the "select" button on the left sidebar. After that, you right-click on the image and select "Stretch/Skew" from the menu. Then, on the "Stretch and Skew" menu, you can put in 50% on the "horizontal" option and 50% for the "vertical". This has the effect of making the image half the size of the original. Of course, you can put any percentage under 100 to zoom out and any percentage above 100 to zoom in.

wrightc · Aug 19, 2010, 08:11 AM

@ardyanovich The problem with your method is that we don't want to resize the image, we want to zoom out. If you resize the image, the way paint works is it cuts the resolution in half. If you were to resize, edit, and then return it to its previous size, it would look grainy and pixelated.

InfoJunkie4Life · Aug 20, 2010, 03:09 AM

Have you tried Ctrl + "+" to zoom in and Ctrl + "-" to zoom out. The quotes are for clarity. Also holding the Ctrl key while using the scroll button on a mouse usually does the trick. (I don't have a scrollable mouse, I like keyboards better anyways)

wrightc · Aug 20, 2010, 11:27 AM

I'm pretty sure that Ctrl method only works with the new version of paint. I think the old version is unable to zoom out past 100%. What I did instead was to paste the picture into powerpoint, resize it, take a screenshot by pressing "alt"+"prt Scr", and then pasting that image back into paint.

doejohn · Sep 6, 2011, 07:00 AM

I too have ran into this strange quirk with paint and end up just using Irfan Viewer (a free image program)-search for it with Google.
It will let you see the full size view-plus it has the easiest built-in resizing too used on any image.

(no I don't have any affiliation to this wonderful little free program).