Rotating An Image; Inserting Text - Minolta DIMAGE EX - SOFTWARE Software Instruction Manual

USING THE IMAGE PANEL

Rotating an Image

Used to rotate a displayed image to the left or right, by either 90˚ or 180˚.
Select Rotate from the Image menu, and then select 90
Degrees Left, 90 Degrees Right, or 180 Degrees (Macintosh:
180 Degrees, 90˚ counter clockwise, 90˚ clockwise).
• The displayed image is rotated in the selected direction by the selected angle.
• Clicking on the 90 Degrees Left and 90 Degrees Right buttons on the tool palette has the same effect.
Rotate 90 Degrees Left
✎ Select Undo from the Edit menu to cancel the previous operation. This
function may be used to cancel a number of previous operations in turn
(Macintosh: last operation only). The number of operations depends upon the
memory available and the type of operation.
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Rotate 90 Degrees Right
Rotate 90 Degrees Left
Rotate 90 Degrees Right
180 Degrees

Inserting text

Inserts text in an image.
Select the text tool from the tool palette.
• ' I ' is used as the cursor.
Text tool
cursor
Move the cursor to the location at which the text is to be
inserted, and click the mouse to display the text insertion box.
Enter the text from the keyboard.
• Macintosh: Skip step 4 and proceed to step 5.
Text box
When all the text has been entered, click outside the box.
• When the text has been saved the border of the box are shown in diagonal lines.
• Click inside the box to enter more text.
• If the border of the box disappears when the mouse is double-clicked, select Undo from the Edit
menu to display the box again.
Border shown in diagonal lines
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