Crop & Resize
Image Crop & Resize Service
A lot of images are showcased to grab attention and keep people engaged. Photo cropping or image resizing allows you more control over your images. This is commonly used in the effort to improve the exterior framing, change the aspect ratio, or enhance a subject which requires the alteration or removal of the outer portion of the image to fit specific photo requirements.
You can also get rid of distractions or dead space by cropping images. For instance, if you happen to shoot your subject with a group of people; while you intend to just use one person from the group, then that is when you make use of the crop feature to do exactly that. Most photographers or artists follow the Rule of Thirds when cropping images
This makes use of four quartiles and three sections in which you place the subject. Most photo cropping tools have the Rule of Thirds grid which allows you to easily create a symmetrical image. The idea is to get move your subject’s eyes into one of the assigned four quartiles. It takes the subject out of the center; which is actually more effective in drawing people’s attention closer to the subject. A lot of photographers shoot moving or still subjects with the Rule of Thirds in mind while leaving a bit of space for cropping.
Cropping photos can also be used when there is a wide blank space surrounding the image. This reduces the size of the image while eliminating unnecessary space and also decrease download time.
Resizing Images
There are instances when you wanted to use an image for your website or a company flyer but it tends to be either too big or small for you to use. The only way around that problem is to resize your image. Image resizing or scaling pertains to changing the size of a photo without altering its number of pixels which happens when you resample or crop photos.
Images have shapes and resizing images does alter the image size without changing its shape. We resize images for printing in the effort to fit a specific paper size for printing purposes, screen viewing, or for website and social media sharing.
Free Picture Cropping and Image Resizing Editing Tools:
All the while, you would evade editing software’s because it’s pretty expensive but there are free online and offline editing tools that you can use on cropping photography or images for free.
Here are our top 3 picks of free photo editing tools for cropping and resizing images for the web:
You would think that Photoshop is not at all free – that is right. But, there is a free copy of the older Photoshop version which you can get from Adobe. Most people are unaware that this free version exists but it became available to the market just right after Adobe made Photoshop subscription-based. Here’s what you have to do – just go straight to Adobe[dot]com and then register for an Adobe ID. Once you’ve signed up, just log in, accept the terms and conditions, and then choose the specific language you want to download your Photoshop in. The great news is that you can readily download the complete CS2 suite absolutely for free; that includes InDesign, After Effects, and Illustrator; plus a lot more. This software may be outdated but runs seamlessly with Windows 7, Windows 8, and even on Mac.
GNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP).This program smoothly runs on Windows, Mac, and even Linux. More so, this is said to be the closest you can ever get to using the new version of Photoshop for free. It has deluxe editing features and plugins that can support different file formats. Although this could use a bit of tutorial for learning the different magic wand styles and tricks, this definitely has everything you need in an editing tool.
This free editing tool that can be used both online and offline which makes it a very convenient and versatile pick for resize of image and for cropping a photo. More so, this has an app which is available for both Android and iOS users.