Saving an image as jpeg using windows 10 paint

Bog basic question here. I want to post screen shots in the 3D CAD thread. I use windows 10 and when I paste the shot in paint and try and save I get three options, save as image, video or 3D project. Image saves the shot as png, as does the save option which opens in my document folder. I've googled saving as jpeg and the answer is to open file and change to jpeg, unfortunately there is no file option when using and exiting paint in windows 10. Any suggestions gratefully received.

Just tried Paint 3D in W10. When I 'save as' and select 'image' I then get a dialogue with png as the default file type, but if I click on the little down triangle on the right of the file format box a drop down menu appears giving other options, including JPEG.

Andrew

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Edited By edintheclouds on 18/01/2019 11:56:02

I tend to use the snipping tool that can be found in Windows accessories which saves as a jpg straight to your pictures folder by default no pasting to other programs required.

Also allows you to draw on the snipped image or highlight areas before you click save.

If you look in my Atom album all the screen shots there are done that way.

Edited By JasonB on 18/01/2019 11:50:37

An allied question, I've been sent a document as 3 separate tiffs, one for each page. I've managed to get them into one pdf, but they are the wrong way up. If I rotate clockwise twice then save, it still persists in being the wrong way up. OK not a big issue, but can it be sorted easily?

As I wasn't aware of the Snipping Tool, I use Gadwin Printscreen to capture images

Hi Mick,

Further to our discussions by pm, if I click on file then hover over save as in paint I get this:

If I click on save as it goes straight to a save dialogue suggesting png but the drop down to the right gives a big range of formats including those in the screen grab above.

Neil

P.S. I cropped and saved that screen grab in Paint on W10.

Sorted yes, easily sorted maybe!

The background:

• Metadata is data about data. For example, this data in this post is stored on a computer hard-drive as a list of physical blocks on the disk. The physical structure is incomprehensible to humans so the operating system presents it to the user as a file. To do this, the list of blocks is enhanced by metadata containing things like the file's name, its size, creation date, permissions and so forth. Metadata is often nested. An image stored in a file itself contains with metadata defining the image: there are a number of different ways of representing orientation. A digital image is not as simple as a film photograph where the orientation depends solely on which way round the camera was.
• TIFF is a lossless wrapper around a number of different image formats. It provides extensible metadata in the form of tags. TIFF is used for archiving images and for transferring them without losing detail, either of the original image and its internal metadata, or the image's description in extended meta-data.
• The problem is almost certainly a contradiction inside the tiff as to orientation - it can be set in several different ways, at a number of different levels.

The solution to an orientation problem is generally to open the offending file in an image editor and save it. It will probably be necessary to force metadata changes by saving it in a different format, like JPG, and then use the new JPG.

Image editors vary considerably in how smart they are, but even with a basic one (like Paint), there's a reasonable chance the process of converting an image will make a new one that looks the right way up and contains amended metadata other software will understand. It's not guaranteed though! Although many of the simple editors succeed most of the time they sometimes fail. I've had consistently better results from GIMP, and I expect Photoshop would be equally good. The high-end tools have a deeper understanding of image formats than simpler products, plus they have tools to see or edit metadata as well.

GIMP's approach is simple. When you export an image, GIMP checks its orientation information. If it's inconsistent, GIMP provides a user dialogue that allows you to accept or change it. Once the metadata is consistent, other image software should be able to work with it.

If the TIFF isn't gigantic, I can GIMP it for you.

Dave

Edited By SillyOldDuffer on 18/01/2019 14:52:57

Thanks to all. The snipping tool is a better option and I saved it as a jpeg file. Today is turning out to be a day of firsts as I also successfully changed the mixer tap on the kitchen sink!!!!

Hi if you have the image on screen press buttons ctrl alt and print screen you then open web page and right click and paste image. Job done. Just try it is so simple to paste image into post.

David

Edited By David George 1 on 19/01/2019 19:52:57