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SCRAP Photo Editor User Manual » Tutorials » Cropping and Scaling

Cropping and Scaling

HINT: This video tutorial is best viewed full-screen in HD.

NOTE: This video is actually for Relight, but the use of these features in SCRAP is identical.

Cropping and Scaling Tutorial - Text Version

Cropping

To crop an image, click on the crop icon (Crop Icon) in the Image Toolbar. This enables crop mode. Next, starting in one corner, drag out the region that you want to crop with the mouse. Release the left mouse button once done.

Cropping Visually

You're basically done, although you may want to adjust the crop region. Grabbing the crop region in the middle with the mouse will allow you to move it. You can also resize the area by grabbing one of the crop region's edge or corner handles using the mouse.

 If you need to be more precise with your cropping, no problem; just double-click on the crop icon (Crop Icon), and the “Scale and Crop” editor window will open up. You will find controls to edit the location and size of the crop region numerically at the bottom of the window, in the "Crop" section.

Editing a crop region numerically

Once you have the crop region the way that you want it, you're done. There is no need to click "ok," push enter, or do anything else to finish cropping.

You may wish to click on the crop icon (Crop Icon) again to disable cropping, though. Doing so will prevent you from accidentally adjusting it when you didn't intend to.

Please note that Relight will continue to dimly show you the original photo outside of the crop region, just so that you can see what was there.

Cropping to a Specific Aspect Ratio

Sometimes you may need to crop and scale an image to a specific size and/or aspect ratio. For example, you may want to crop the image, but keep the aspect ratio the same. To do this, activate crop mode by clicking on the crop icon (Crop Icon). This time, hold down the control (Ctrl) key while cropping. This will lock the aspect ratio to whatever it was, which will be the original size (if you haven't cropped it already).

Cropping with a locked aspect ratio (Ctrl key)

But what if you need a different aspect ratio. For example, you may want to print it onto standard 4"×6" (102×152 mm) photo paper. Double-click on the crop icon (Crop Icon) to open the scale and crop window. At the top you'll see that you can set the aspect ratio. For 4"×6", enter 4 and 6 into the boxes, and then click on the padlock button on the right (Aspect ratio unlocked) to lock it.

Cropping 4x6 aspect ratio

Now, when you crop the image, it will automatically have the aspect ratio that you desire.

Cropping & Scaling to a Specific Size

What if you need to crop to a specific size? For example, you may wish your 4"×6" photo to be at 300 Dots-Per-Inch (DPI). Well, you can also set and lock the output image's resolution (it's right above the aspect ratio controls).

Once again, double-click on the crop icon (Crop Icon) to open the scale and crop window. For 4"×6" at 300 DPI, we need 1200×1800 pixels, so enter those values into the resolution entry boxes and click on the padlock button (Aspect ratio unlocked) to lock it. Now, crop the image, and the cropped image will automatically be scaled to be 1200×1800.

Cropping and scaling to 1200x1800

Scaling

To scale an image, click on the scale icon (Scale Icon) in the Image Toolbar. This will open the Scale and Crop editor (shown above). The "Scale" section of this window is for editing the scale.

Scale Edit Controls
There you can adjust the scale factor directly using the "Scale Factor" control. You can also adjust the scale so that the width or height are a particular value. Or, you can choose a preset scale from the "Common Scales" dropdown. For example, choosing the "Email" preset will automatically scale the photo so that it fits nicely into an email.

For more information, have a look at the cropping and scaling reference page.

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