The Gimp Photo Editor Reference

Method One to Crop a Photo:
Click a selection tool on the tool
bar, hold down the left mouse
key and drag the mouse over the
picture to select the area you
want to crop out.
The Gimp Photo Editor: Cropping an Image
The dotted line portrays the
selected area. Everything
outside the dotted line will
be discarded.
Go to the image menu
and select crop image.
Only the area inside the
dotted line will remain.
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Method Two to Crop a Photo:
Click on the crop tool from the toolbar,
left click on the picture, hold and
drag. A box will appear. Drag the box
from the corners until you have the
area to remain selected.
The four corner boxes
are used to resize the
crop selection area.
Left click on a box, hold
and drag.
When you are ready to crop,
left click in the center of the
selected area. The program
will leave only the area inside
the selection box.
The cropped
image.
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