can not copy and paste pics

I can not copy and paste pics in windows photo gallery.

I have a picture that I want to crop part of it out but I still want to keep
the origanal so I figured the best way would be to make a copy in the same
folder before editing because evry time I crop a pic it saves over top of the
origanal and the original is gone. I tried right click copy and paste and I
tried ctrl C and ctrl V, I also tried going to file copy / pasted?

Any ideas? Am I making any sence?

Thanks,
Loni

Pete n Loni wrote:
> I can not copy and paste pics in windows photo gallery.
>
> I have a picture that I want to crop part of it out but I still want
> to keep the origanal so I figured the best way would be to make a
> copy in the same folder before editing because evry time I crop a pic
> it saves over top of the origanal and the original is gone. I tried
> right click copy and paste and I tried ctrl C and ctrl V, I also
> tried going to file copy / pasted?
>
> Any ideas? Am I making any sence?
>
> Thanks,
> Loni
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Your pictures are not actually in the PhotoGallery...
if you right click a picture you should see...
"Open File Location" (This will open the folder
the picture is saved in) now you should be able
to Copy/Paste.

Maybe the following articles will offer some ideas:

Windows Vista -
Windows Photo Gallery -
Tips For Editing Pictures
http://tinyurl.com/39kacg

http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/Win...a8dc31033.mspx
(Scroll down to: Get creative-but preserve your original)

Windows Vista -
Shadow Copy
http://tinyurl.com/37sclr

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/pro...hadowcopy.mspx



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