You can crop an image to remove unwanted areas and improve its composition. You can select a rectangular area that you want to keep, and then you can discard the rest. As a result, you reduce the file size of an image without affecting its resolution.
Cropping lets you remove unwanted image areas.
Corel PHOTO-PAINT also lets you crop around the editable area of a mask; however, the resulting image is always rectangular. For information about masks, see Masks.
You can also change the size of an image without removing or adding image areas by changing the image dimensions and resolution. For more information, see Image dimensions, resolution, and paper size.
| To crop an image |
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| 1 . | Click the Crop tool  . |
| 2 . | Drag to select an area on the image. |
| 3 . | Double-click inside the cropping area. |
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Choose a value from the Crop resolution list box on the property bar.
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Click the Change orientation button
 on the property bar. |
You can hide the crop overlay to view the image you are cropping more clearly by clicking Image 
Crop Crop overlay.
You can also crop an image area by clicking the Crop tool and typing values in the Size and Position boxes on the property bar.
| To crop a border color from an image |
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| 1 . | Click Image Crop Crop border color. |
| 2 . | Enable one of the following options: |
| • | Background — crops the color specified in the Background color swatch  in the color control area of the toolbox |
| • | Foreground — crops the color specified in the Foreground color swatch  in the color control area of the toolbox |
| • | Other — crops the color you choose using the color picker or the Eyedropper tool  |
| 3 . | In the Tolerance area, enable one of the following options: |
| • | Normal — determines the color tolerance based on the similarity of hue values between adjacent pixels |
| • | HSB mode — determines the color tolerance based on the similarity of hue, saturation, and brightness levels between adjacent pixels |
| 4 . | Move the Tolerance slider to set the tolerance for the color that you want to crop. |
| You may need to experiment with different Tolerance slider positions to successfully remove the border color. |
| To crop to an editable area of a mask |
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| 1 . | Define an editable area on an image. |
| 2 . | Click Image Crop Crop Image to mask. |
For more information about defining editable areas, see Define editable areas.
The features documented in the Help are available in the full version of CorelDRAW Graphics Suite 2020. Some features may not be available in this version of the product.
. Drag the rotation handles to align the cropping area with the image area you want to crop.
