Post #660067 by TikiTomD on Thu, Nov 29, 2012 8:43 AM

OGR, here's several tips on the mechanics of acquiring Google News images, assuming that you have a Windows operating system on your PC. If you have a Mac, there should be analogs for doing the same thing...

1. To get rid of highlighting, take a note of the date and page number of the article of interest, then go to the link menu at the top and click on "Browse this newspaper >>"... the newspaper editions will be listed by month in columns, with the month of interest on the leftmost column. Click on the link "View all" and then scroll horizontally until you get to the right date and click. Enter the page number in the box at the top and hit return.

2. Zoom in as much as you can and center the article, then hit the key on your keyboard. An image is now stored in the clipboard memory.

3. Open up the Microsoft Paint application that came with your Windows operating system, or if you have a better image application, use it. Paste the image from the clipboard memory into Paint and then crop it to get rid of extraneous material. Save the cropped image as a JPG file. You're now ready to load it into your Tiki Central post using the "Add Images To Your Post" link. If it's too big an article, you may have to divide it up and save it as a series of JPG files. Best to try to make the text sections of an article about the same size so the resulting TC images are displayed the same size, if possible.

I recommend a fairly low cost application that makes the pasting, cropping and saving steps a snap: SnagIt by TechSmith Corporation.

Hope this helps.

-Tom