Cropping and changing orientation

You can crop an image to remove unwanted areas or combine multiple images to create a single, large image. You can also change the orientation of an image by flipping it or rotating it.

In this section, you’ll learn about

•cropping images

•stitching images together

•changing image orientation

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.

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.

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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 “Masking” on page 413.

To crop an image

1Click the Crop tool .

2Drag to select an area on the image.

3Double-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 . Drag the rotation
	handles to align the cropping area with the
	image area you want to crop.
Expand the cropping area outside the	Click Image ` Crop ` Expand, and drag a
original image	cropping handle outside the image.

You can hide the crop overlay to view the image you are cropping more clearly. Click Image ` Crop ` Crop overlay.

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

1Click Image ` Crop ` Crop border color.

2Enable one of the following options:

•Background — crops the color specified in the Background color swatch in the color control area of the toolbox

•Foreground — crops the color specified in the Foreground color swatch in the color control area of the toolbox

•Other — crops the color you choose using the color picker or the Eyedropper

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