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Easy cropping in Gimp

For an even easier way to crop images in GIMP, use the Selection Tool:

1) Click and drag a selection over the area that you want to remain as your image.

2) From the Image Menu, choose Crop To Selection

3)You now have a quickly cropped picture in GIMP!

This entry was written on June 22nd, 2009 by Nancy and filed under graphic design, Tutorials.
Tags: design, gimp, how to, tutorial

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David
written on March 12th, 2010

Great post, this was what I was looking for!
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Steve VR
written on March 2nd, 2012

Hi Nancy,

I have looked over your post on irregular cropping photos with Gimp and have not been able to make it work. I have actually spent almost a year trying to figure out basic commands with Gimp and in most cases failed. Have found no useful tutorials online that describe anything more than common sense commands and not achieved any way to crop anything other than simple rectangle or ellipse. I am not a newbie to photo editing, but used mostly Ulead Photoimpact, which does not have many features of Gimp.

Any suggestions?
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Nancy
written on March 2nd, 2012

Great question – Just posted up a tutorial on how to crop irregular shapes in Gimp. Check it out here:

http://nancyfusco.com/wp/index.php/2012/03/cropping-irregular-shaped-paths-in-gimp/