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Cropping images

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.

You can also easily crop a single-color border surrounding an image, such as a white edge surrounding an old photograph.

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 Working with 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 Changing image dimensions, resolution, and paper size.

To crop an image Back to Top

 

Click Image Crop Expand cropping area, and drag a cropping handle outside the image.
Choose a value from the Crop resolution list box on the property bar.
Click the Change orientation button on the property bar.

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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 Back to Top
To crop to an editable area of a mask Back to Top

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For more information about defining editable areas, see Working with masks.


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