Help Making Google Docs, Gmail and other web-based editors easier PicturePaste allows you to take pictures or graphics from any desktop application, or photos from your camera, or screen captures, and more easily embed these into web-based editors such as Google Docs, Gmail, Yahoo mail, Wordpress and others. • Installing • How To Use it • Photos • Screen Capture • Picture Resize • Crop • Re-copy • JPG or PNG • File Sizes • Scrolling • Home Host (FTP or Amazon S3) Installing Download the PicturePaste Setup program to your local hard disc and run this program. It will take you through the normal program install procedure. No registration is required.  When you install you have the option of adding a icon to your desktop and / or to the system Quick Launch tray area. How To Use it Start the PicturePaste program. You will be presented with a blank PicturePaste window. 1. Copy the graphic from your source program using the usual program Copy command. e.g. use the Edit -> Copy menu or the usual key short-cut of Ctrl+C. Immediately you should see the copied image in the PicturePaste Window. 2. Click the Convert button. 3. Switch into your web browser editor (Gmail or whatever) put the cursor in the editor where you require the image and type the usual Paste short-cut Ctrl+V Embedding Photos (or other image files) Simply drag the JPG (or JPEG, PNG, GIF, WMF, TIFF) file from your Windows File Explorer (or even your digital Camera folder) onto PicturePaste window.   or Right click on the PicturePaste window and select Open Image File. Because PicturePaste provides easy resizing, and cropping facilities (see below), you can avoid using other graphics software. Note: PicturePaste only supports static, not animated GIF images. Screen Capture You can easily capture your whole computer screen or just a single Window using the Print Screen key on your keyboard.  If you hold the Alt key when you press the Print Screen key, it will copy the current window to the clipboard. Without Alt it just copies the entire screen to the clipboard (and thus into PicturePaste). If you have a laptop keyboard you will typically have to press the Fn key in combination with another. Resize With picture or photo in the PicturePaste window you can just drag the size-slider that’s along the lower edge of the window to resize the image.  Click the 100% indicator to restore the image to its original size. Note: the maximum size an image can be is 2000 pixels across, and so for larger digital camera images clicking 100% will only make it the maximum 2000 pixels. (It is very rare indeed that you’d ever want to paste an image in your document more than 1000 pixels, let alone 2000 pixels.) Default Picture size Normally any image larger than 500 pixels is resized down to be 500 when you copy it. This is the most common or useful size for embedding into emails and blogs. You can adjust this default size by using the Settings dialog. Click the spanner icon in the top right corner and select Settings.  You can enter a new maximum size.. You can still adjust it using the size slider, but this controls the initial maximum size. Crop Just click and drag diagonally across the image in the PicturePaste window (before you Convert).  Click the Undo icon next to the Convert button to restore the original un-cropped image. You can do this even after a Convert. Re-copy After you’ve pasted the image into your editor, you might use the clipboard for something else, such as copying some text. You can re-copy the converted image to the clipboard again (e.g. if you want to use the image again somewhere else), by simply selecting the PicturePaste window and typing Ctrl+C.   or Right click on the image and select ‘Copy Converted Image’ PNG or JPG When you click the Convert button it creates either and PNG or JPG image for embedding into your editor. For most purposes a JPG image will be fine, but for some types of images such as charts, graphs or other non-photo computer graphics (such as the Excel chart shown on the right) you can get better quality by selecting the PNG image type. When converting to a JPG type, you can control the quality using the Settings dialog (click the spanner icon).  The usual JPG quality is 75. If you select values higher than this you’ll get a marginal increase in image quality, but the file sizes can grow considerably and so slow down the conversion and download size.  It is not recommended to ever use a JPG quality of 100. File sizes After you Convert, the file size (along with the pixel size) is shown on the lower right corner of the PicturePaste window.  You can change the PNG or JPG option and re-do the Convert to compare the file size of each image type. The smaller the file size the better as it results in smaller emails and faster downloads for viewers of your documents or emails. Scrolling (pushing) the image If the image is larger than the PicturePaste window you can use the usual scroll bars and mouse, but a better way is to press the center mouse button (or wheel) and dragging across the image. Advanced Settings: FTP or Amazon server settings You have the option of uploading converted images to your own web server when you click the Convert button.  This is a little more complicated to set-up and requires that you have some ‘FTP’ web space or an Amazon S3 account. See the Server Configuration Help page for more details. More Help If you require more help email help@picturepaste.com and someone will get back to you as soon as possible. After a Convert the ‘Drag and drop’ rectangle appears.  Just drag this over your web-based editor or just type Ctrl+V in your editor. That’s it. To embed photos just drag the file from the Windows File Explorer onto the PicturePaste window. Click here to resize the image back to its original 100% Just drag across the image to crop.