Hints and Tips

The followings are some hints and tips that may be helpful to you.

  1. If you use this software often, you may add a short cut on your task bar or desktop like me.
  2. Every time when the Easy Graphic Converter launched, it would show the splash screen 2 seconds or more. You may click on the splash screen to speed up the process.
  3. If you often do the repeated work, you may set the images input and output directory from View/Options/Other/Open Directory & Save As Directory .
  4. To quick activate the open dialog, you may press short key CTRL+O
  5. To quick activate the save dialog, you may press short key CTRL+S
  6. To quick activate the save as dialog, you may press short key CTRL+A
  7. You recent opened/saved image files are listed in the history list under the pull-down menu FILE
  8. If you do anything wrong when editing, you may press CTRL+Z to reverse the operation. You may also press menu item UNDO from pull-down menu EDIT
  9. Double click the image to enlarge show the image in a full screen and double click the full screen to return
  10. Right click the image to activate a popup menu for operation. The popup menu is the same as the pull-down menu FILE
  11. In the resize window, if you want to resize with the same proportion as the original image, check the [Constrain Proportions] box. If you want to resize with random proportion, uncheck it.
  12. In the resize window, press [Preview] button, a full screen would be activated with the resized image for your view.
  13. In the rotate window, press the [Preview] button, the bottom would show a preview area for previewing the rotating result at real time.
  14. In the canvas window, if you want to add a canvas to the image, you must set the width and height larger than the old image size, otherwise the canvas would be hided by the image.
  15. Use Capture Last Full Screen, Easy Graphic Converter will minimize itself and then capture the whole screen into the image window.
  16. Use Capture Last Active Window, Easy Graphic Converter will minimize itself and then capture the focused window into the image window. So if you want to capture a window, you need to set the focus on the window and then switch to the Easy Graphic Converter with ALT+TAB key. Then make a capturing.
  17. Use Capture Window, Easy Graphic Converter will minimize itself and show a small capture window. Drag the icon from the window and move it to spy each window for capturing.
  18. Use Capture Region, Easy Graphic Converter will minimize itself and show cross cursor. Press down the mouse , then drag and drop for capturing.
  19. Use Capture an ICON Area ( 32 X 32 ) , you may easily make your own icons. Show the image on screen and then capture it with Capture an ICON Area ( 32 X 32 ). Save the capturing into icon with Save As menu.