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Cropping is the removal of unwanted outer areas from a photographic or illustrated image. The process usually consists of the removal of some of the peripheral areas of an image to remove extraneous visual data from the picture, improve its framing, change the aspect ratio, or accentuate or isolate the subject matter from its background.
See also Template:Easy CSS image crop, which simplifies the interface for this template a bit. {{CSS image crop}} creates a crop of an image inline for previewing the look and feel of a page, or for linking to full images when a slight crop is preferred in an article, but the full image is more encyclopaedic in general.
Images can be rotated, mirrored, scaled and cropped using the templates {{Transform-rotate}}, {}, {{CSS image crop}}. See also A Wikimedia Foundation brochure in PDF form that introduces newcomers to Wikimedia Commons and how they can contribute to it.
Cropping creates a new image by selecting a desired rectangular portion from the image being cropped. The unwanted part of the image is discarded. Image cropping does not reduce the resolution of the area cropped. Best results are obtained when the original image has a high resolution. A primary reason for cropping is to improve the image ...
Determines placement of the cropped object on the page Defaults to 'right' when description is provided (as is default for thumb images) When description is blank, location on left (as is default for non-thumbs)--> | Description = <!--
This is much, much harder with {{tl|CSS image crop: You have to calculate a scaling ratio and apply it to every parameter. Admittedly, cropping a tiny bit out of a large image with any sort of CSS image crop is very inefficient: It still has to load a thumbnail big enough to crop that tiny bit from.
Instead, add text, links, references, etc., to images using Template:Annotated image or Template:Annotated image 4, which can also be used to expand the area around an image or crop and enlarge part of an image—all without the need for uploading a new, modified image.
To crop the image yourself, use the CropTool. If cropping a JPEG, consider using a lossless cropping tool such as jpegtran . For more help, see Wikipedia:Images for cleanup .