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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.
An existing English Wikipedia or Wikimedia Commons image can be inserted into a page with the basic wikitext [[File:...|thumb|Caption text]]. [a] Using thumb generates a thumbnail picture, typically sized differently from the original image. For guidance on the caption text to associate with images, see Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Captions ...
Size in kB varies with image content and JPEG compression and generally bears little relation to pixel dimensions. In general, it's a good idea to crop a photograph to highlight the relevant subject. Bear in mind that, after cropping, an image must be a minimum of 1500 pixels along its shortest edge to be considered for featured picture promotion.
Cropping (image), removing unwanted outer parts of an image; Scrapbooking, also called cropping, the creation of cards and or scrapbooks in unique and creative ways as a hobby; It may also mean: Crop farming
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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. Where only a small ...
These templates allow wikitext (e.g., regular text, wikilinks, allowed HTML code, references, and other templates) to be included on the image itself. They may also be used to crop an image so as to focus on a particular portion of it, or alternatively, expand the white area around an image for better placement of wikitext.
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