Cropping the Image

This essentially involves selecting part of the image and clipping it. Here's how to do it with Paint Shop Pro 5:

1. Click on the Crop button. This is the fourth button on the tool bar.
   
   
2. Draw a rectangle measuring 300 pixels wide by 400 pixels high. These values appear in the status bar, on the bottom left (see Figure 1). Don't worry about where the frame is positioned.
   
   


Figure 1: Draw the cropping rectangle without worrying about its precise location.


3. Click inside the cropping rectangle and drag it anywhere you want. The choice of the frame's final location is purely a question of design. In this example, we are keeping the sheet's reflection in the river.
   
   
4. Double-click inside the cropping rectangle. The image is automatically cropped to the pre-set size, that is to say, 300 x 400 pixels (Figure 2).
   
   

Figure 2: This image is now the desired size (300 x 400 pixels).

The image is now the right size, but a lot of material has been lost. In this example, cropping has placed the emphasis on the main theme of the image, the white washing drying on the staircase. Sometimes it is important to maintain all of the image. In this case we will have to resize it.