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September 11th, 2001
Never to
forgive,
Never to
forget!
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Cropping A Picture With XnView
Why Use XnView?
This is the 2nd requested 'how-to' manipulate a picture using XnView. In the
first part I showed how to resize an image. In this
part I will show how to crop an image. As stated in the first part the only reason
I am showing how to do this using XnView is because it is free. Normally I use
either Adobe Photoshop or JASC Paintshop Pro to work with images. The JASC and
Adobe products are not free, XnView is. You can hop over to the
homepage and download your
very own copy.
Okay so lets get started by learning just what 'cropping' is. Cropping an image means that
you are going to make an image out of part of a larger image. There are many advantages
to cropping, not the least of which is you can focus attention on one particular item of
interest in a picture (or you can use it to remove the ex from a picture... not that I've
ever done that).
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Cropping a picture has a couple of advantages. First it allows you to focus on what you want
to show in the picture by removing the excess surroundings and second it also reduces the
actual image size by removing the excess surroundings.
I took this picture because I wanted a picture of my Dad's LC and my LC together... so that
was the primary focus of the picture. However, if you notice, the bikes are actually a
small portion of the whole picture because there is so much surroundings and the bikes are
not exactly centered in the picture.
Next we see the same image after it has been cropped. You can see that most of the background
has been removed and the bikes are now centered a little better in the picture. Other than the
cropping nothing else was done between the two pictures, ie. no resizing or reformatting, and
the image size was lowered from 18K to 12K, so we can deduce that about 1/3rd of the original
image was removed.
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