Crop an Image Using GIMP

Sometimes, you only want a piece of the photo you took or you asked someone to take a picture of you, and what they did was take a picture of the hall with you in it. Read this article to learn how to crop your image with Gimp.

Steps

1. Open your image.
2. Click on the crop tool in Gimp. It looks like an X-Acto knife.
   • This opens up the crop tool options just below all of the toolbar icons.
3. If you are unsure of exactly how you want to do it, start making choices and see what happens. You can always undo. Here, the selection was created by clicking on the approximate center and then moving outwards. This keeps it more, or less, centered.
4. If you want to use guides, you can. This will help you with classic guides that are used in art and photography.
5. Once you have it where you want it, double click inside of the selected area.

Selection Method

1. Use the Selection tool, either round or square or however you have made the selection.
2. Click on Image >> Crop to Selection.
3. Save image.

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Sources and Citations

• http://docs.gimp.org/en/gimp-tutorial-quickie-crop.html – research source

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