Help needed with editing an image

[Filbert]

Hello all. I have just copied and pasted a picture (not a photo) onto word...one of those free colouring pages off the internet. I want to know how I can edit it as there is a lot of black outline that I would like to erase. It won't open in paint and I don't have photoshop or anything. Does anyone have any ideas? Thanks in advance

[bazwillrun]

You say Paint wont open it what format is the picture in, Paint will open most common graphic file formats

Ideally you want a .jpg or if it has just a few colours then .gif will do.

Word cannot edit pictures as such but net.paint which is free can

http://www.getpaint.net/ or GIMP http://www.gimp.org/

Edit the pic in either of these, save it, then drop it in Word

[Filbert]

Thanks. I'll do it now