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How to Decorate Your Photos Like Those in a Photo Booth

Asian-style photo booths that overlay captions, graphics and cartoon characters on photographs are popular in the United States as well. Webcam software sometimes includes photo booth-style features, and websites provide ways to use webcams through Adobe Flash to create clever pictures. To use your existing photographs and add graphics, you can visit a website such as puricute.com or purikura.me, or use Windows Paint to create a simple graphic overlay and apply it to your photograph.

Things You'll Need

Digital Photograph in JPEG or BMP format
Graphic Overlay in JPEG or BMP format (optional)

Instructions

Create a Graphic Overlay
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  Start Windows Paint and open your photograph. Select "Attributes" from the "Image" menu, and note the values listed.
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  Click "New" from the "File" menu, and the "Attributes" from the "Image" menu. Enter the values you noted from your picture. This will make the overlay the same size as the picture.
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  Uncheck "Draw Opaque" in the "Image" menu. This means that there will be no background color, allowing the photograph to show through.
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  Draw your graphics, allowing space for the parts of the image such as faces that you wish to show through.
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  Save the graphic overlay image using "Save As" from the "File" menu.
Overlay Your Graphic on the Photograph
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  Select "Open" from the "File" menu in Paint, and open your graphic. Use "Select All" from the "Edit" menu to select the entire image, then click "Copy" in the "Edit" menu to copy it.
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  Open the photograph using "Open" from the "File" menu. Click "OK" if asked whether you want to discard your previous work.
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  Select "Paste" from the "Edit" menu to place the graphic on top of the photograph.
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  Save your combined image using "Save As" from the "File" menu to create a new file name.

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