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Perfectly Cromulent Image Cropping with the GIMP

Make that extracromulent.

I’m guessing that most people with a digital camera or a web site have spent time cropping pictures. There are lots of programs that can do this. Often we start out by using the ones that happen to be installed, and we manage for better or worse with the functionality they happen to have. In this post I hope to show you that the GIMP is a great tool for cropping pictures. I’m sure Photoshop has similar abilities, but instead of paying $700 (or whatever it costs now), why not use the free GIMP, available for GNU/Linux, Windows, and the Mac.

Don’t limp along: get the GIMP.

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You’re a Mean One, Mr. GIMP

In one of my “moving to freedom in stages” projects, I’ve started to use the GIMP on Windows XP. GIMP is the free software counterpart of Adobe Photoshop.

I’ve mentioned previously my bewilderment when faced with its amazing power and feature list. I have to confess that I often just fire up MS Paint or IrfanView for quick image manipulation jobs. That previous post mentions how I found tutorials to do more sophisticated things like changing transparency in .png files and removing red eye, but there are a lot of simple jobs I can do in Paint and IrfanView that would take me a good chunk of time to learn …