Save part of desktop image

How do I photograph &/or save part of a desktop image?

command + shift + 4
Move the cursor to one corner of the area you want to capture, hold the mouse button down, outline a rectangle. That rectangle is captured.
The screen shot will end up on your desktop.

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Using applet to select a part of an image and then save it

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I want to use applet to select a part of an image and then save that particular selected part to a server. can anyone provide me a code for this. I have found codes on the sun site which help in uploading an image but I am having trouble in trying to select a part of the image.

Sorry to get back to you so late, but I was away from my computer this afternoon.
I'm not sure just what you are after. I do see that you have positioned the tree on the labels. I went to the web site for the label company, and their instructions are not too helplful.
http://www.pixentral.com/show.php?picture=15sBkl9OZE9xSkHoLMxgwjTFv2VCg1
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Once image is edited- how do I save it to desktop or a file to later insert it in an illustrator layout? I tried to save it and it saved but it opens into photoshop elements editing page

once image is edited- how do I save it to desktop or a file to later insert it in an illustrator layout? I tried to save it and it saved but it opens into photoshop elements editing page

Right click > Open with and choose the program to open it.

I am using adobe photoshop cs6. I am facing a problem. When i save any image as "save for web". After saving image it show cropped. An image show many parts of the image after saving the image. Please help me. Thanks in advance.

I am using adobe photoshop cs6. I am facing a problem. When i save any image as "save for web". After saving image it show cropped. An image show many parts of the image after saving the image. Please help me. Thanks in advance.

Just go back in photoshop and use the Slice Select tool, then just click and select the slice and hit delete - if you're not sure which one is the active slice just right click and find the one that has the Delete Slice option.
It's possible you either added the slices by accident or if you received it from someone they just had the slices hidden. For the future, you can go to View > Show > Slices to display (or hide) slices.

System Preferences quits suddenly. I have lost the dock, including the trash and ability to change desktop image. How can I replace this part of System Preferences? Where can I find Trash?

System Preferences quits suddenly. I have lost the dock, including the trash and ability to change desktop image. How can I replace this part of System Preferences? Where can I find Trash? All other aspects of System Preferences work.

just that that is one method, and lacks provision for working boot image and for an emergency - Lion gives a small minimal emergency boot environment but may lack all the utilities you need to use and run, even some drivers that your mac requires for add on PCIe.
Just grab and look through Help in Carbon Copy and SuperDuper, both excellent and each has their use - together - for cloning.
And do you have two TM backup sets? ought to consider that also, rotate daily or make a weekly set. Otherwise you are putting all your eggs in the proverbial one basket.

I mostly work on Mac desktop, but use a Macbook Pro on trips. Due to limited HD space on the latter, I want to create a library of part of the images on the Mac, to be used on the Macbook. I do not however want to remove these images from the Mac library.

I mostly work on Mac desktop, but use a Macbook Pro on trips. Due to limited HD space on the latter, I want to create a library of part of the images on the Mac, to be used on the Macbook. I do not however want to remove these images from the Mac library.

Choose one or more Projects, and then use Export as New Library (from File). The resulting export will be a fully functioning Aperture Library to either transfer and open on the Macbook Pro, or to Import into a library you already have on the MBP.
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Save part of image as separate file

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I'm an infrequent user of AI, so have a very pathetic question. We have been sent a lovely AI file. We need to save part of the file in .wmf format so we can include it as a nice crisp vector banner graphic in Word (yes, Word). We can't figure out how to save the bit we want without loads of white space all round it.
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Does a Dark Desktop Image Help Save Battery Life?

I know this is a weird question.
But think about it: if you use a very bright desktop image, say something like this: http://img64.imageshack.us/img64/4540/deserttoyota24wf.jpg
and if, in the second case, you use a quite dark one, with a lot of "black" pixels that actually does give a lot less light (the one here is my desktop picture, a map with a light-rendering effect):
http://img64.imageshack.us/img64/8049/europewidefx7wq.jpg
1. does the darker desktop screen consume less battery power for the smaller amount of "glowing" pixels?
and, as I am asking stuipid questions,
2. does the darker screen help in prolonging your Powerbook screen's lifespan?
I have been asking myself these questions ever since I got my brandnew PB 17" HD (October 2005), and although they seam strange I am serious about it.
Thanks!
PowerBook G4 17" 1.67 HD + G4 QS 867 Mac OS X (10.4.5)

Your backligth seems to be white is'nt it ?
So to known how much you use electric power to switch a pixel from white to black, the best way is:
1) to turn off all your ligths in your house
2) to remember your electricity company counter index
3) mesure the time the powerbook is on
4) put your screen with a white background
5) change the background to black
6) run to the electricity company counter and write down the index
7) substract the start index from the end index
8) substract powerbook electric comsuption
9) divide this result by the number of pixel your LCD have it will give you the electric comsuption for one pixel.
Hope this help
:-))

Desktop Image and Screensaver: doesn't work

I can not change my desktop image, and my screensaver won't start.
I was playing around in Desktop Preferences tonight, setting different speeds for the iTunes Artwork screensaver to see how it'd look, and suddenly, System Preferences just crashed on me. I wasn't doing ANYTHING strange, just playing with the options of the original screensavers that came with my computer, which is brand new. I don't have any third party screensavers loaded on my machine. The desktop image was one I made myself, with Photoshop. I have absolutely no idea why it's acting this way.
Even stranger, out of curiosity, I created a second user account and tried the screen saver while logged in the second account. The screensaver worked just fine. But still nothing in my main account. Any ideas?
When I try Desktop Images and Screensaver now (within System Preferences), it CRASHES on me. I get this error message:
"The application System Preferences quit unexpectantly.
Mac OS X and other applications are not affected.
Click Reopen to open the application again. Click Report to see more details or send a report to Apple."
If I reopen it again, I get the same thing. The second error dialog will always have the option to "try again." If I try again, I can actually open the Desktop Images and Screensavers window. I can't change anything, however. If I try changing something, I get the following message:
"System Preferences -- New Settings
New settings have been created for this application. Do you wish to use these settings from now on?"
With two buttons for yes or no. However, no matter which button I select, I get the same results.
I've run OSX through Jaguar and Panther, so it's not like I'm a new user who just clicked the wrong thing. I'm seriously stumped here. Can anyone help? I'm a little worried about this.... Thanks.
Dual Core Intel Mac Mini Mac OS X (10.4.6)

THANK YOU!!!! Yes, it was the preferences in my library causing the problems. I just deleted the screensaver preferences, and that fixed all the problems, including the desktop image problem.
I also think that maybe an alarm clock program I downloaded called Aurora may have been partly to blame. I had Aurora authorized to wake my computer from sleep, even though I had password protection enabled. This might have conflicted with the screensaver somehow, dunno.... Let me know if any of you are successfully using Aurora without any problems, and I will reinstall it. But for now, that program is off my system.
Anyways, thanks a load. You guys are all very helpful. -- Dean

Sudden fading of desktop image

Well, this may seem like a trivial "problem" and it well may be but since I just bought this G5 and a costly 30" Apple display, I look at any "little" thing as possibly a sign of Major Trouble in my computer and/or display.
So, yesterday I was on the phone for hours with Apple about another issue (posted here if you have time to kill) and they had me do a million things to try to resolve it, nothing working. In the middle of one such operation I noticed that my desktop image suddenly went pale. I even mentioned it to the Apple woman but then I said maybe I've just been looking at it for too long.
After we hung up this pallid desktop pattern kept bothering me and I wanted to know for sure if it was my imagination or if something had "happened." I went into display settings and sure enough the calibration setting was on something weird - maybe it got there somehow during all the diagnostics Apple had me do. So I put it back to the correct setting but nothing changed as far as the desktop pattern quality.
The image is a gif that I downloaded from a cool website that has free desktop patterns and pictures. It maybe 2" x 2" and is tiled on the desktop. I went to the site, found the image, and sure enough, it's richer in tint, everything I had remembered. So I am thinking this cannot exactly be a display problem per se because I am looking at the same image on the website (perfect) and on my desktop (pale and washed out). So I think maybe it has something to do with the actual .gif - that something happened to it within the desktop image settings.
I remove it as a desktop image and from my files and trash it. I download it again from the site. When I look at it in Preview the colors are perfect. I even rename it. I put it in the desktop picture box and it fills the screen again as a tiled pattern, but as the same PALE washed out version. I try this several times all with the same result.
Then I remembered that I had sent this image to a friend so I found the email and took the attachment off and placed the image back in the desktop window. This time it worked. The image was as it should be, with all its rich tones. As a safeguard I emailed the .gif to myself at a yahoo account.
I could go back to the desktop pattern site and get the image again just to see if it would work properly from the start but I am afraid something will go wrong again and I have "resolved" the problem via the email attached .gif. Or maybe there is a real problem and I literally have covered it up by using the saved .gif.
Can anyone explain this to me? What misery could this indicate? Or can an image somehow suddenly get corrupted? What was really weird was that I kept downloading it from the site and it looked perfect UNTIL I put it in as a desktop image.
It's little things like this that drives some people to madness!
Thank you for reading.
G5 Quad Core Tower Mac OS X (10.4.8)

thanks kwamster, now where was i? well, i think onyX actually did fix the off-times. now they reflect reality. we will see how that holds up.
in the meanwhile i essentially was forced at gunpoint to do an archive/install, and while i feared it my system seems to be unscathed. however, the desktop image thing remains unresolved. i am getting around it for the moment with a version of the image i found that seems only a few shades off. i can live with it for now. it's not so much IT as what IT may be an indication of, hence the archive/install which didn't cure it.
now apple is talking of my doing an erase/install which you can believe i am not in the mood to do but then a tier 2 person suggested that maybe the problem was in that it was a .gif format, not a .jpg. he suggests i fool around with the image in photoshop, get it colorwize where i want it and then save it as a .jpg and put it in the desktop preference window. i think it's a brilliant idea but if there is an underlying Major Problem it is only a kind of Band-Aid solution. he said the next thing i could do before an erase/install would be a hardware diagnostic, run off the apple install disk.
the three icons that are now question marks in the dock oddly have disappeared from the g3 folder on my g5. it's unlike me to have deleted them and anything else i've tried to move as an experiment from there out of the folder and onto the dock still keeps a copy on the desktop. the one dragged to the dock goes pouf if you remove it. no biggie. i can rewrite the info and make new OSX clippings. i asked the apple woman today if perhaps the mistake was putting something in the dock that was something other than an application and she said that you can put anything there, so...
oh, part of what i did today was indeed create a new user and make a test of the image and had the same problem. that is what led to the archive/install because they said it was a system issue not a user issue, but again, it seems not to have changed anything.
also verified and or repaired the permissions several times.
oh well. i'm riding quite the learning curve here.
thank you for your kind words of encouragement, however. they ease the pain.

How can I use applet to get the desktop image of client

hi,I have a question to ask u.
How can I use applet to get the desktop image of client? Now I develop a web application and want user in the client to get his current image of the screen.And then save as a picture of jpeg format ,then upload it to the server?
I have done an application to get the screen image and do upload file to server in a servlet with the http protocal.

Since the desktop image is on the client's local hard drive, you'll need to look at trusted applets first.

OSX Mountain Lion - Cannot change desktop image

I used an image I'd downloaded as desktop wallpaper. I have tried to change it to the default image, other images, sold colours, but the same image always returns after I reboot (warm and cold boots). Note that I can change the desktop image, but it always reverts back to the old image. The changes do not stick. I cannot locate the image in Finder. Any ideas?

I have the same situation as Marc; however, I do not have access to images. The multicolor circle keeps turning.
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How to save a scan in Image Capture?

How do I save my scan in image capture?
What option to I go to save it as a JPEG or PNG to my computer?

There's no Save command because Image Capture automatically saves scans when you click the Scan button.
To find the format options, you have to click Show Details at the bottom. This will reveal the save location and format options, including an Overview button so you can test your crop etc. settings before you do the final scan.
Baby Boomer (USofA) wrote:
Image Capture>Help>Image Capture Help.
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Why are some jpg images scrambled when they appear in my screen saver? The same images look fine in Preview and Finder. Some images appear scrambled in the screen saver 'preview' window and the actual screen saver. Other jpg images look fine.

The desktop image is fine, taken from the exact same pool of jpg photos. However, as soon as the slide show screen saver comes on, the images are scrambled. What is it about the apple screen saver algorithm that scrambles the pics?

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The iPhoto help is rather vague on this topic, it does not say "this is normal' or "this is a bug".
Can anyone clarify this for me.

Haven't seen that happen before, and no it's not meant to.
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TD

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