Office 2010 Improvements for Cropping Pictures

re: Office 2010 Improvements for Cropping Pictures

Mick — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 15:58:17 GMT

Re: Since you can now position the crop area freely relative to the picture, we define the crop area slightly differently. Previously, the Left, Top, Right and Bottom was needed because each specified how far in from those edges we cropped.

Tucker, is there a setting to revert to the old way of cropping without the mouse? I regularly need to crop an image to 7" from the top. Now when I enter 7" into the Height box it cuts off the bottom 3", which is the part I actually need to keep. I haven't been able to find a way to make it crop the top half of an image.

Are you able to help?

re: Office 2010 Improvements for Cropping Pictures

Mike — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 22:57:07 GMT

I do not have or at least cannot find the cropping tool on my copy of Office 10 in Outlook. I use screen shot and paste it in my e-mail as I used to in Outlook 2007 but he picture editing feature is no where to be found. Can you help me?

re: Office 2010 Improvements for Cropping Pictures

Si — Wed, 12 May 2010 21:52:25 GMT

How can you crop to an irregular shape like the shape you get after a remove background task.. Ideally I would like to see a crop to edge option that crops to an irregular shape (like the flower above) where it detects the edges and creates the correct shape so text can flow right up to the flower shape..

re: Office 2010 Improvements for Cropping Pictures

akansha — Sun, 25 Apr 2010 06:05:23 GMT

plz tell me how can i crop image like exact shape of flower from this image plz mail me at sanjivanimt@yahoo.com

re: Office 2010 Improvements for Cropping Pictures

Tucker Hatfield [MSFT] — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 23:46:19 GMT

Chuck,

While it isn't posible to move the corner points individually, there are actually a couple ways to get the result you're looking for.

First, you could use the Crop to Shape option to select a non-rectangular shape, such as the parallelagram or trapezoid. These shapes have a yellow "adjustment handle" that allows you to alter the shape to fine-tune it to the desired shape.

If you want to make a shape you can't get that way, try this: From the Insert dialog, add a shape that's close to what you want. Double-click it to bring up the Drawing Tools/Format tab. On the right you'll see the Edit Shape dropdown. Choose Edit Points and you can party on the shape until it's exactly what you wanted. Then from the Shape Fill dropdown near the center of that same tab you can choose Picture fill and add the picture you want. Then you can use the Crop option on the Picture Tools tab to get the exact results you want. (This works with the Scribble shape, too, as long as you draw a closed shape).

re: Office 2010 Improvements for Cropping Pictures

Chuck Jones — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 00:47:01 GMT

Is it possible to crop an image by picking four separate points regardless of the shape that it generates?

In other words the shape oculd be approximately rectangular but not exactly.

Thanks

re: Office 2010 Improvements for Cropping Pictures

Tucker Hatfield [MSFT] — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 02:00:34 GMT

Since you can now position the crop area freely relative to the picture, we define the crop area slightly differently. Previously, the Left, Top, Right and Bottom was needed because each specified how far in from those edges we cropped. Now you define the size of the area you want to keep (Width and Height) and how far from the upper left of the image the rectangle should be positioned (Left and Top. This makes the numbers in the Format Object dialog more closely resemple the manual process of cropping, since you can move the crop rectangle around the image from either the FOD or using the mouse.

re: Office 2010 Improvements for Cropping Pictures

Jeff — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 06:45:18 GMT

>>> It is still possible to crop without the mouse.

Please restore the ability to crop LEFT, TOP, RIGHT, and BOTTOM--for whatever reason, RIGHT and BOTTOM are no longer available.

re: Office 2010 Improvements for Cropping Pictures

Tucker Hatfield [MSFT] — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 01:45:41 GMT

Faramond,

It is still possible to crop without the mouse. Open the Format Object dialog (while the picture is selected, right-click and choose "Format Picture", or keyboard Alt+JP to select the picture tab, then press O). You can then either click on Crop or Tab and arrow key to the Crop portion of the Format Object Dialog. If you put the values into the fields for "Picture position" and "Crop position" you can control the size and position of the crop.

re: Office 2010 Improvements for Cropping Pictures

Faramond — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 18:38:05 GMT

Please restore the ability to crop without the mouse! I often need to crop by a specific number of points; it's much more accurate to enter this amount in a text field that get frustrated trying to move the border 3.25pt to the right.