How We Do It...
First off, open the ticket1.gif image you just downloaded by
choosing "Open..." from under the FILE menu in PSP as shown to the right. It should be sitting there waiting for you
in the same directory where you saved your first image. Choose the image by clicking on it twice.
It should open up in the PSP window.
Now let's put PSP in the crop mode. Look at the screen. There should be
a little button that looks like this: 
. Click on it. Now you
have placed PSP is the mode to crop out a section of the picture.
Once the crop button is clicked, place your mouse pointer over top of the
ticket1.gif image. The pointer should change into this:
Do this:
Put the cross in the upper left hand corner of the image. Left click and hold, then drag the mouse
down and to the right. See the box forming? Try to cut the ticket perfectly in half. Once you
have one half of the image "set aside" let go of the mouse button. Now the box will become a dotted line.
It should look like this:
Got that? Good! Now let's perform the actual cropping. Look again
at the top of the PSP window. There should be a menu called IMAGE. Click on it. A few commands
down, there should be "Crop". It looks like the item at right.
Once you choose crop, you should now get this:
How about that, huh? Now follow the same instructions as above
and save that half image as "leftticket.gif". After you've saved that new image, close it by
clicking on the grey X in the left hand corner of the image - not on the PSP program, but the X on the image.
Open the ticket1.gif image again and perform another crop, only this time
crop the right side of the image and save it as "rightticket.gif". Do your
darndest to get the crop line in the same place as the last one. I did it by making the
crop follow the left vertical line of the "M" in the word "Admit".
You now have the the ticket images you'll need to animate the
ticket opening up.
Done For The Day!
Now you can crop with the best of them. I use this function constantly.
It is a very basic of image creation. But there's also importing images. Thus we move on...
On to Banner Primer #4
[Cropping An Image]
[Crop It!]
[How We Do It]
