Cropping Images

Okay, so many times there are images you may wish to use that you want to only use a portion of the entire image. Perhaps you need to center it better or eliminate what we call "Unused Space". I do this a LOT with family photos - CROPPING out myself whenever possible! LOL!

Okay, so let's say you found a base or background image you like (or even another image that you wish to use just a portion of) and opened it up within the free online image editor we have been learning on: Pixlr

Step 1: Open the image

Click theFile menu option, select Open Image and locate the base image from your computer

Step 2: Select the Crop Tool

On the left side, click to select the Crop Tool as shown below:

Step 3: Adjust the area to crop.

important.....

Click somewhere within the upper right portion of the image and DRAG you mouse pointer to the lower right corner and let go.

You should then see a grid box appear on top of the image as such:

The area located WITHIN this grid is what will be kept. The area outside the grid will be eliminated from the final resulting image.

Step 4: Adjusting the Crop Area

You can click and hold the corner points of the grid in order to change the dimensions of the crop area

When you have the grid just the way you want it......

Step 5. Select the Crop

Click the Crop Tool again on the left tool options:

You will be prompted to ensure this is what you want:

If you're sure, click Yes

Your image will now be cropped down to contain only the portion of the original that you wanted to save and use later:

A

And, there you go! Congrats! You did it!

Okay, I'll come back perhaps and edit this a bit. But, my brain is now tired! LOL!

I hope you were able to grasp the concepts here and discover a very inexpensive (FREE) way to create stellar images for your website and advertisements!

Go for it!

Cheers!

Peej

And, now you know how I created that cool signature block above!! :-)