| How to Improve Mouse Accuracy in Windows Live Photo Gallery Feb 9th 2013, 00:00 Using the mouse to move the horizontal slider bar in Windows Live Photo Gallery can be difficult for very minute adjustments. This article provides some hints on how to make quick, precise movements with your mouse. Several editing features, in Live Photo Gallery, have horizontal sliding bars and the "Straighten Photo" edit is very difficult to maneuver because it is so responsive to slight movements. - Use the Straighten Photo edit in Windows Live Photo Gallery for photos that are not straight.
- Align a grid line with the horizon.
- Align the grid line with an object that is vertical like a post or a building. Since there might be distortion, use objects in the center of the photo.
- Use the Straighten Photo edit when straightening a scanned page of text. Occasionally, when using a sheet feed scanner, a page has to be edited with straighten photo because the sentences are not horizontal.
- To avoid making excessive mouse movements, lightly rest the heel of your palm on the desk. Instead of moving the mouse from your wrist, try moving it from your shoulder or your body. Moving the mouse with a bigger movement, moves the mouse less, because moving the mouse with your wrist creates a bigger angle of movement.
- Alternatively, rest the heel of your palm on the desk and use the heel of your palm as a fulcrum of movement. With this "big" technique, your palm heel is fixed and you will be shifting your body to move the mouse. This technique takes very little effort.
- A "small" technique to move the mouse is to rest the heel of your palm on the desk and rotate the mouse with just your thumb. Be prepared to trial a variety of techniques.
- Move the mouse a bit diagonally when precise movements are required. It is hard to move a mouse accurately for a few millimeters, so by moving it diagonally you have a bit more control of it. If you can accurately move a mouse 2 mm and an adjustment requires 1.75 mm of movement, by moving the mouse diagonally, the actual sidewards movement is less than 2 mm. The Windows Live Photo Gallery slider control can make sidewards adjustments and will not note any diagonal movements.
- Another way to straighten a photo requires knowing how moving the slider bar will affect the photo.
- With this technique, look at slider bar, without looking at the photo, and move the bar just a bit.
- A variation of this is to look at the slider bar and the photo, but with more of your vision focused on the slider bar.
- When making diagonal movements with the mouse, look at the effect of what your mouse movements has with your photo or page. This is like driving, where you are looking at the road and not at the steering wheel.
- Moving the mouse quickly with just your arms is quick, but when you are tired, or it is the end of the day, you should do it differently.
- Apply these techniques to other situations.
- Moving a mouse with broad strokes is more tiring than moving the mouse just with your wrist, but if you have repetitive stress pain, making broad movements might be what a physical therapist would recommend (be sure to ask your therapist for confirmation).
- Use an ergonomic mouse. To save money, convert your mouse to an ergonomic mouse with a hot melt glue gun.
- Microsoft Office Picture Manager is another similar program, but it might not be free (as part of the Microsoft Office suite). Windows Live Photo Gallery is a free program and does not come with your computer––simply download it from the internet.
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