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can i import two pictures to work side by side in paint

Anonymous
2011-10-01T18:50:50+00:00

I want to import two pictures so that I can transpose elements of one onto another

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  1. Anonymous
    2011-10-02T09:06:00+00:00

    Hi,

    Step 1:

    I would suggest you to refer the below steps and check if it helps.

    a.       Click on ‘Start’.

    b.      Type ‘paint’ in search bar and hit ENTER.

    c.       Make sure you have two paint Windows open, stretch out the tile in both the Windows.

    d.      Go to ‘File’.

    e.      Click on ‘Open’, and then choose what picture you want to merge.

    f.        Next go to resize and type in the size you want your photo to be, go to cut, and cut your whole entire photo, and then copy.

    g.       You now want to paste the photo.

    h.      Now go to the other paint window, choose what other photo you want to merge, and then make it the same size as the other photo.

    i.         Cut that whole entire photo and then hit “copy”, and hit “paste”.

    j.        Now both of your photos are in the same window side by side.

    Step 2:

    If the above step does not work, then I would suggest you to use the Windows Live photo gallery to test and check if it helps.

    http://explore.live.com/windows-live-photo-gallery-organize-edit-share-using

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  1. Anonymous
    2017-08-31T21:30:25+00:00

    I think I figured it out. I'm using Win10 btw, not sure if that matters. What I did was start with two instances of MS Paint open (open the program twice and you should have separate windows).

    In the first Paint window, open the image you want, crop or resize, etc., then type "Ctrl+A" to select the entire image, right-click to "Copy", and right-click in the second window to "Paste". You probably got that already.

    You can do the same with multiple images (open and copy from the first window), then when you right-click to Paste in the second window, it should paste the new image just in the upper left corner by default, probably over the first image, but note that the second image is still outlined, so you can click and hold to drag it somewhere else away from the first picture if you have empty space, or just over a different part of the first picture.

    If the first picture is smaller dimensions than the second one you paste, the same still applies, just it will be trickier to manipulate to look how you want (i.e. paste the larger sized picture first).  Hope that helps.

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  2. Anonymous
    2017-10-02T10:54:24+00:00

    Hi - This youtube tutorial VIDEO may help (the key thing is dragging out the extra space in first image to move your second image in to) - Cheers, Ric.

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  3. Anonymous
    2017-10-01T22:22:04+00:00

    There is no cup and paste option in the paint app  I open  from Start

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  4. Anonymous
    2017-07-19T22:53:06+00:00

    The answer did not help. When I try to paste a second image into Paint, it won't let me. It did at first. Then the image disappeared. Like it went behind the first image or something. When I tried to repaste the second image, it would not let me. And, I can't get behind the first image to put the second image in front. I want one image in front of the other one. But, I want to be able to see both images. Can anybody help?

    Jay

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