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Cropping images

You can crop an image to remove unwanted areas and improve its composition. Cropping allows you to select a rectangular area that you want to keep and discard the rest. As a result, you reduce the file size of an image without affecting its resolution.

Photo Paint crop area Cropping images

Cropping lets you remove unwanted image areas.

You can also easily crop a single-color border surrounding an image, such as a white edge surrounding an old photograph.

Corel PHOTO-PAINT also lets you crop around the editable area of a mask; however, the resulting image is always rectangular. For information about masks, see “Working with masks.”

You can also change the size of an image without removing or adding image areas by changing the image dimensions and resolution. For more information, see “Changing image dimensions, resolution, and paper size.”


To crop an image

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Click the Crop tool Photo Paint pgx crop tool Cropping images.
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Drag to select an area on the image.
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Double-click inside the cropping area.

You can also
Enlarge or reduce the cropping area
Drag the cropping handles.
Move the cropping area
Click and drag inside the cropping area to reposition it.
Rotate the cropping area to straighten it
Click inside the cropping area to display the rotation handles Photo Paint pgx rotation handle Cropping images. Drag the rotation handles to align the cropping area with the image area you want to crop.
Expand the cropping area outside the original image
Click Image Photo Paint onestep Cropping images Crop Photo Paint onestep Cropping images Expand, and drag a cropping handle outside the image.

Photo Paint tip Cropping images

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You can hide the crop overlay to view the image you are cropping more clearly. Click Image Photo Paint onestep Cropping images Crop Photo Paint onestep Cropping images Crop overlay.
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You can also crop an image area by clicking the Crop tool and typing values in the Size and Position boxes on the property bar.

To crop a border color from an image

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Click Image Photo Paint onestep Cropping images Crop Photo Paint onestep Cropping images Crop border color.
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Enable one of the following options:
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Background — crops the color specified in the Background color swatch Photo Paint pgx background color Cropping images in the color control area of the toolbox
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Foreground — crops the color specified in the Foreground color swatch Photo Paint pgx foreground color Cropping images in the color control area of the toolbox
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Other — crops the color you choose using the color picker or the Eyedropper tool Photo Paint pgx eyedropper tool Cropping images
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In the Tolerance area, enable one of the following options:
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Normal — determines the color tolerance based on the similarity of hue values between adjacent pixels
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HSB mode — determines the color tolerance based on the similarity of hue, saturation, and brightness levels between adjacent pixels
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Move the Tolerance slider to set the tolerance for the color that you want to crop.
You may need to experiment with different Tolerance slider positions to successfully remove the border color.

To crop to an editable area of a mask

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Define an editable area on an image.
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Click Image Photo Paint onestep Cropping images Crop Photo Paint onestep Cropping images Crop to mask.

Photo Paint note Cropping images

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For more information about defining editable areas, see “Working with masks.”

Cropping images