Crop
To reduce the size of an image or to remove non-important aspects of an image. For example, you may have a picture of several people, but may only want to have a picture of one person from that picture.
Making a a selection around that person and then
using the crop
feature will make a picture of only that person.
Another common mistake often seen on the
Internet is users who scan a picture using a
flatbed scanner and
have a large blank area around the image. Cropping the image so only the image is seen will help reduce the overall size of the image and increase the
download times.
In the picture to the right, is a visual example of what a non-cropped image and cropped image may look like. As can be seen, the original image has a lot of wasted space making the image visually
and physically larger. Cropping the image reduces the overall size of the
picture and gets rid of wasted white space.
Also see: Image editor
