Open your image and crop and resize. You can crop to pre-defined formats for Facebook, Instagram or Twitter headers or make custom crops. Save or email the resulting image, or share it on Facebook, Twitter or Instagram. There are also some basic editing functions: free draw, add text, rotate, flip and draw rectangles. Click Edit, and then Crop selection. Open the image in The GIMP. Use the rectangle marquee to select the portion of the image you want to crop. Click Image at the top of the image tool bar. Click Crop Image. Android smartphone and tablet. Open the Google Photos app. In the Google Photos app, find the image you want to crop and tap it to. Cropping for impact. Using an image cropper or photo crop editor to crop pictures can add a greater impact on the picture, for instance, a long horizontal rectangle or a thin vertical strip. Cropping an image to a square indicates formality and stability. Cropping for a story or context.
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Cropping images
When you are only interested in a section of the image for the purpose of your document, you may wish to crop (cut off) parts of it. The user interface offered in Writer for cropping an image is not very friendly, so it may be a better choice to use a graphics package.
To start cropping the image, right-click on it and select Picture from the pop-up menu. In the Picture dialog box, select the Crop page.
The options available when cropping a picture
In the Crop page, you can control the following parameters:
Keep Scale/Keep Image Size
When Keep scale is selected (default), cropping the image does not change the scale of the picture.
When Keep image size is selected, cropping produces enlargement (for positive cropping values), shrinking (for negative cropping values), or distortion of the image so that the image size remains constant.
Left, Right, Top, and Bottom
The image is cropped by the amount entered in these boxes. For example, a value of 3cm in the Left box cuts 3 cm from the left side of the picture.
Width and Height
The Width and Height fields under either Scale or Image size change as you enter values in the Left, Right, Top, and Bottom fields. Use the thumbnail next to these fields to determine the correct amount by which to crop.
Resizing an image
The inserted image might not fit perfectly into the document if it is too big or too small. In these cases you can use Writer to resize the image.
The corner handles resize both the width and the height of the graphic object simultaneously, while the other four handles only resize one dimension at a time.
Be aware that re-sizing a bit-mapped (raster) image will adversely affect the resolution, causing some degree of blurring. It is better to externally size your picture correctly before insertion into your presentation, if possible.
The figure below shows three examples of an image inserted into a document and resized.
Figure 8. Three examples of resized images, plus the original image
For more accurate resizing, use either the Crop page of the Picture dialog box or, for images, the Type page of the Picture dialog box. On the Crop page you can either adjust the following settings or use the settings in the Crop section as described here.
In the Type page of the Picture dialog box, select the Relative option to toggle between percentage and actual dimension. For a scaled resizing, select the Keep ratio option. As for the Crop page, clicking on the Original Size button restores the original image size.
Rotating a picture
Writer does not provide a tool for rotating a picture; however, there is a very simple workaround:
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The Picture dialog box consists of eight pages. The Crop page was described here, while the use of the Type and the Wrap pages is explained in Positioning graphics within the text. The other pages serve the following purposes:
Deleting a picture
To delete a picture:
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