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What is the quickest tool that can let me choose a rectangle (of a predefined size) within any picture file, and it should crop it to that. Something like the tool you get when uploading a Gravatar ... remember?
Typical image editing software like Paint.NET or Photoshop is too slow, you have to open the image file, select a rectangle manually, crop, save, close ....
Robinicks
Posted 2009-11-30T01:11:56.790
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There is JPEGCrop, which is a Windows GUI application for most of the jpegtran features:
A new -crop option has been added to jpegtran for 'lossless' cropping of JPEG images:
-crop WxH+X+Y Crop to a rectangular subarea
nik
Posted 2009-11-30T01:11:56.790
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ImageMagick has crop options.
nik
Posted 2009-11-30T01:11:56.790
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my tool of choice:
PhotoFiltre, dead fast, free and portable.
Nice tool, though you have to keep drawing the selection box over and over again for each pic. – Robinicks – 2009-11-30T02:05:10.553
This sounds nice. I'll try it out too. +1 – nik – 2009-11-30T02:10:15.230
1zees is a very nice tool. Draw box, right click, crop. And it is very fast! – bobobobo – 2009-11-30T02:16:03.963
1Consider suggesting your particular use-case to the developers of PhotoFiltre and maybe they'll add it to the next version - it sounds like a useful feature to have. – Jason R. Coombs – 2009-11-30T03:44:11.483
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I made a free tool to do that:
https://github.com/weclaw1/inbac
Just select the part of image you want to crop and press X to crop or Z to crop and go to the next image.
weclaw
Posted 2009-11-30T01:11:56.790
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I use MSPaint for this, and it's pretty quick. It's almost a reflex.
The fact that it loads quickly and is available on any (windows) machine you use makes it particularly appropriate.
Leon Bambrick
Posted 2009-11-30T01:11:56.790
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I'm glad I'm not the only one who opens Paint on a quasi-regular basis. – goblinbox – 2012-02-12T00:03:09.767
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After a lot of searching and evaluating, i eventually found a tool called "Click 2 crop". Its simple and dead fast for manual cropping. It have the options you are asking for. Its not free but offers a 15 day evaulation.
droidgren
Posted 2009-11-30T01:11:56.790
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If you have microsoft office it's quick and easy: 'Open with' Microsoft Office Picture Manager, Click 'edit pictures' at the top, A window will open to the right with 'crop'
slick
Posted 2009-11-30T01:11:56.790
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There are lot of online tools to do that quickly: http://www.cutmypic.com http://www.cropmyimage.net
Don Grem
Posted 2009-11-30T01:11:56.790
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It doesn't get any simpler than in Google's Picasa.
Draw the box, hit the button and you are done.
Be aware that Picasa does not make permanent changes to the image - it stores the edits and re-applies them when you view the image.
If you want to send the cropped image, or view it in another app, you would export a copy of the image.
http://picasa.google.com/#utm_campaign=en&utm_source=en-ha-na-us-bk&utm_medium=ha&utm_term=picasa
Kije
Posted 2009-11-30T01:11:56.790
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I don't want to keep "drawing the box" .. I want to define my height, width once and have the program show me a fixed size draggable box. – Robinicks – 2009-11-30T02:03:05.670
Apologies - I misunderstood your requirement – Kije – 2009-11-30T16:06:06.270
do you want to crop them always on the middle ? – None – 2009-11-30T01:47:28.097
Anywhere at all, using a movable rectangle. – Robinicks – 2009-11-30T02:01:04.580