One of the main features of WinGraphics is the ability to edit images. Almost all of the images that you see on this website have been edited with WinGraphic.

When using the WinGraphic editor you are able to crop, chop, composite, add text, flood fill, texture fill using the tool bar. There is also a large range of effects and transformations that can be applied to your images.

In this tutorial I am going to show you how to crop and chop using the toolbar. I will also show you a few effects that can be done with WinGraphics effects menu.

You can download our images here or you can use your own. If you use ours, you must first unzip them into a folder before starting this tutorial.

The Tutorial - Task 1

Start WinGraphic and select 'Editor' from the New Project dialog and click OK.

In this tutorial I am going to add my images individually, you can however add a folder of images by using the Add Folder button.

Click on the  button. An add file dialog will popup. Browse to the directory and add the image or images you wish to edit. I am adding all of the images in this directory. You can select multiple images by holding down the CTRL key and clicking each image. You could also select all of the images by pressing CTRL+A. When you have selected your images, click on the open button.

Your images now should be loaded into the image list as thumbnails. Click on the first one and check that it opens up in the panel to the right.

At the moment the big buttons and the sidebar are taking up all of the window space. I am going to click View -> Quick View -> Editor in the main menu. This makes WinGraphic look more like an image editor allowing more editing space.

If you have done what I just did, WinGraphic should look like the image on the right. I have also resized the window so the editing bar takes up just one section rather than two.

If you move your mouse to the left of the image list (the list of thumbnails) you will notice that the sidebar will show and then disappear when you move the mouse away. This feature can be disabled through the view menu.

Now lets get into some editing. Lets say I want to crop some of the image that is currently selected. Click on the  button and select part of the image by holding the left mouse button down on the top left of the portion you want to crop, now drag the mouse down to the bottom right portion that you want to crop. You should now notice that there is a box over what is to be cropped out. Click on the  button to crop.

I ended up with an image that went from -

To -

The same will work for chop but rather than cropping the selected section your a chopping out the selected section.

Now lets save the selected image. Click on the  Button. This will popup a Save As dialog, browse to a folder where you want the image saved, enter a filename and set the 'Save As Type' to BMP and click SAVE.

WinGraphic will convert the selected image to a bitmap and save it with the filename in the folder you just selected.

The Tutorial - Task 2

We will carry on from where we left off with the images already loaded into the image list. Click on the second image in the image list (thumbnail list) and we will have a go at applying an effect to the image. If you are using our images you may have noticed that some of the images are quite dark. We are going to lighten them up with the gamma effect. Click on the  button. This will display a list of effects, click on 'Enhance' then 'Gamma'. Set all of the values in the entry boxes to 1.3 and click OK.

The original looks like this -

The result should be something like this -

With the third image try using an oil paint special effect. You can access this with the  button. Go to 'Special' then 'Oil Paint'. For the mean time just use the default settings.

With the forth image try using the charcoal special effect. You can access this with the same button and by going to 'Special' then 'Char Coal'. For the mean time just use the default settings.

Now you should have 4 edited images. I am going to show you how to save them all at once using the batch save feature. With two different options.

Move you mouse to the left of the thumbnail list and the sidebar should be visible. If it's not go to View -> Quick View -> Default.

Option 1

Use the default settings. WinGraphic will popup a save as dialog for every image that is to be converted. This can take a while if you have a large number of images but it allows you to have more control over the output filename.

Option 2

This is the option I am going to use since I have quite a few images.

I have selected 'Prompt' under 'When encounter same filename'.

I have set the output to 'bmp' since I want a Windows bitmap image

I have set the output directory to my newly created 'Converted Pictures' folder using the  button.

All I have to do now is click on the  button. WinGraphic will prompt you with a message "You are about to convert and save all of your images, continue?", select OK.

WinGraphic will prompt you for a new filename if it finds that a filename already exists. Your options are to overwrite this image, select a new name or cancel the conversion.

All of your images that you have just edited have now been saved into the folder you specified when you set the output directory.