Please help extract jpg from Word

[BlueTit]

Someone had an old photo scanned and pasted into a MS Word doc. They have given it to me to clean-up and print for tomorrow. The problem is that when I copy it and paster to PS CR2 the resolution is awful. I can view it in word at 500% and it looks fairly ok, but in Photoshop at 200% is it all pixelated. Whats the best way of transferring it to PS without losing resolution? I can not get the original scan. BTW the word file size with the single scan of 6X4 is 1Mb.

Thanx in advance.

[rlhphotos]

Copy it from Word to MSPaint and then from MSPaint into Photoshop.

[BlueTit]

Great thanx, I wll try that.

[lakiluno]

If that doesn't work, zoom in until its at the maximum size for the screen (so you can see the whole image), press "prt Scrn" and then paste into photoshop

or

Download openoffice (free) open the doc in that and export to another format, eg PDF, and then using Foxit reader (a free PDF reader take a snapshot of the image.

Leo

[Tom Reid]

You can copy from Word and paste into Photoshop without going through the step with Paint. After you copy the photo in Word open Photoshop. Click File and then New. When the New box appears make sure you select Clipboard in the preset drop down list. Click OK and your image should appear.

[jbkalla]

You can copy from Word and paste into Photoshop without going through the step with Paint. After you copy the photo in Word open Photoshop. Click File and then New. When the New box appears make sure you select Clipboard in the preset drop down list. Click OK and your image should appear.


I think you might want to double-click on the image (in Word) and set size to 100% first. I believe that will copy the actual image. Maybe I'm wrong, but I was thinking if you don't do that the image won't be quite right...

[DavidW]

Word is a pain to retrieve graphics files from. These days I tend to create a PDF, then recover the image from the PDF, but it helps that I have Acrobat 7 Professional.

I found that you tend to get a very low quality copy if you go via the clipboard. What you can do for some types of graphics is to set the Picture Editor (Tools -> Options..., Edit tab) to Microsoft Photo Editor, then save the resulting image from Photo Editor. This works on my setup (Word 2002, Windows XP Professional SP2) in many cases.



David

[BlueTit]

Thanx for all the suggestions, jbkalla, that's what I ended up doing, though I still don't think I got the image into PS as clear as it was in Word. In the end I worked on what I had and gave it back today, it is been given as a gift tonight, in the meantime someone is getting me the original can files so I can work on them and the print I did can be swapped out at a later date.

Cheers all.

[Bodog]

What are the pixel dimensions? I would imagine it would be a pretty small image coming from a Word document. That's probably why it doesn't look a good in PS. Hopefully the original should look better.

[jbkalla]

Thanx for all the suggestions, jbkalla, that's what I ended up doing, though I still don't think I got the image into PS as clear as it was in Word. In the end I worked on what I had and gave it back today, it is been given as a gift tonight, in the meantime someone is getting me the original can files so I can work on them and the print I did can be swapped out at a later date.

Cheers all.

At work we use SnagIt. After the pic is at 100% (if poss), I take a snapshot of it and save in the appropriate format. Don't know how much the program costs... Probably not much.