Lesson 11. Preview for Viewing Images and PDFs

Goals

Learn to crop, color adjust, and resize images

Learn how to annotate and mark up a PDF

Search PDFs and create bookmarks for easy retrieval

Copy text from a PDF to paste into another document as editable text

Fill in PDF forms

Make screenshots

Print images or documents in a variety of ways

Save files into other formats

The small picture-viewing application called Preview does a great deal more than merely display photographs for you. It’s actually quite a powerful program in which you can open and annotate PDFs, change file formats, crop images, adjust the color or size, make screen shots of what you see on your screen, import images from a camera, digital card reader, or scanner, and more. ...

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