Is it possible to make a selection in Microsoft Paint larger than the current screen resolution?
Working with full screen screenshots (including across multiple screens) is not easy in Microsoft Paint as there appears to be no way to extend a selection or making it larger than the current view while making it.
Doing menu Edit / Select All (Ctrl + A) will make the selection cover the entire image / picture, but I need to make smaller selections than that.
Platform: Windows XP SP3
While selecting an area by holding down the left mouse button and dragging, you can use your mouse scroll wheel to scroll up and down the image. This allows using a selection larger than the screen resolution in the vertical direction.
However, you cannot scroll left to right and would probably need to zoom in/out for this.
In my experience, not directly. However, there's still the workaround of saving a copy of the image and cropping the copy to the size you want, then Ctrl + A , Ctrl + C, Alt + Tab, and Ctrl + V. ;-)
Fwiw, newer versions of Paint include the option of zooming out, which should help in your case, but I don't know if I should recommend you to upgrade. Give it a try anyway, if you can, and decide for yourself.
In case anybody else on this earth still uses paint, after years of painful struggle zooming in and out to artificially scroll, i've finally found the holy grail: indeed you can scroll sideways while selecting, what you have to do is press ctrl + arrow keys and the screen will slowly but surely scroll to the direction you wanna go. Happy selecting!
Zoom out with the mouse scroll wheel to a lower percent/ slider at the bottom. Then apply the crop area.
