2009-11-11 23:31:34 UTC
So what I'm doing for the supplied pictures is downloading them as .bmp, cropping them on MS-Paint, then converting to high-quality jpeg with other software, because MS-Paint doesn't produce good enough jpeg quality.
To make cropping easy, I made a .bmp file that's a red 361 x 481 rectangle on a black background, If I set the background color for the picture to black and transparent paste to on, I can paste in that frame and move it around to compose the picture nicely before cropping. That's quick and easy.
The selection menu has a little low-key but nice animation. When you press the ENTER key, the LCARS buttons disappear, and the picture slides into place and gets cut up into jigsaw pieces, which then get strewn left and right of the work area.
