Love the new cropping tools

[plumb4me]

The white handles around photos, makes it much easier to crop, since there is no longer a pop up cropping window. It's much easier to see the image on the screen and crop it from there.

The zoom in and zoom out makes it much easier to make the image bigger or smaller, within the cropping area.

This is a huge plus. Finally, a way to crop images the same size, with the aspect ratio, located under the crop button. I like that there are precut sizes to choose from or that I still have the ability to crop my images, anyway I want to.

[Cat]

How did you make it crop without resizing? I can't figure it out at all!

[plumb4me]

Click on the image, then go over to the right hand side and click crop, the white handles will appear around the image and then you can just move the image, inside the white handles, up or down or side to side. Unclick the crop button, then you can crop or resize the image, anyway you want to or go over to the right hand side again, click on aspect ratio, click on one of the preset sizes and crop to that ratio. After you crop, just unclick the crop button again and the white handles will go away.

Click on the image, then click on the crop button and under the crop button is the zoom in or zoom out and the white handles will show up again. Within the white handles, the image will get bigger or smaller, when you on the click the (+ or -)

If you want to crop the image to a preset ratio, click on the image, then click the aspect ratio, click one one of the sizes and the image will be crop to that size.

[Cat]

OK... I think I'm starting to get it. So there's basically 2 sets of handles - the little squares in the corners for the outline of the picture itself, and the wrap-around-the-corner handles showing the visible part of the image... So it's like a box within a box. I think I was using the wrong set of handles - the full image set - and when I moved those it re-sized the image rather than cropping it.

Thanks for encouraging me to figure it out. I got so frustrated last time I tried that I ended up just cropping the image in my design software and uploading the cropped version.

[plumb4me]

If you double click on an image, the white handles will pop up and then double click again, the white handles will go away.

[plumb4me]

I found out, it's not necessary to double click or click on the crop button, after you finish cropping the image. Just click on another image or text box and the white handles will disappear from the image you were just working on. Of course this only works, if you have more than one image to crop.

[plumb4me]

Learning new things everyday. Click anywhere and the white handles disappear.

[leartiste67]

That makes sense. 

[chefcateringbiz]

I'm afraid I'm a hater. Just ran into this today and ended up deleting the image and popping it back in to start over because I accidentally selected ctrl instead of shift when resizing and after that I couldn't get the stupid white anchors all the way to the edge after that. It's almost like Zazzle is the gub'mint now, always trying to "help" and making things more complicated. Absolutely hate it when I accidentally use ctrl. Ctrl is what you typically use in image programs to scale things, but here it just cuts off body parts.

[Connie]

I always use Shift in Photoshop to resize an image, so it's intuitive for me to do the same thing here. The funny thing is, when Zazzle first implemented that feature, I kept forgetting to do it, but BEFORE they had that feature, I accidentally used Shift all the time because I'm so used to doing it in Photoshop!

[plumb4me]

Just hit accepted solution by accident. Disregard figured out how to undo solution.

[SheaPrints]

This makes it so much easier to reposition the picture inside the frame as it appears in the design. Great!

[BKMuir]

It took me a moment to find the ASPECT RATIOS. I only saw FREE FORM and 1:1.

Went back to look and saw that the PREVIEW Window was open and covering the other choices.

Seems like a good change - will have to play with it.

[WHS_Designs]

it's good -- up to a point. if your image is too thin/narrow, the new crop tool will actually enlarge the image. 😞

[SixSphinx]

This needed to happen because cropping in the popup window was terrible. So I'm super-happy about it. But it was so easy to uncrop something that I'd cropped by accident, and now I have to delete the image and start over.

[Connie]

That's the only problem I've found so far- there's no way to uncrop!

[SheaPrints]

When you're cropping an image, you can use the 'undo' button to uncrop and go back to different stages.

[Connie]

@plumb4meNow that you've explained how to use the new tools, YES! I love it! SOOOO much easier than jumping in and out of the old crop tool after tweaking it over and over to get just the right size!

OH! And I just discovered that the new Crop tool puts in a rule-of-thirds Grid when you move the image around! That's a great addition!

[kashmier]

I don't like it. At least not for what I used the crop for. Is there anyway to just cut off an edge of image.? It used to be so easy to just cut away what was I wanted to remove. The bad part was that it had to be a straight line. I am sure this crop works for other things that I will find when I need them. I do all my design  work on photo program so there is no need for it on here. Just want to cut off a dark line at the bottom of a square image.

[SixSphinx]

I think you can just crop in one direction, but you don't use the crop tool for it. Select the item as if you're going to resize it, then grab the middle handle on that side instead of the corner handle. Not sure whether that's what you need...

[Connie]

You can use the new crop tool for that. Just drag one of the two bottom white handles straight up, and it'll cut off whatever you don't want. Make sure you only click on the Crop button, though, NOT the Zoom button. If you do that, it permanently ruins the image!

[SixSphinx]

I found an option to "Lock Aspect Ratio" in the Settings that I hadn't seen before. It stops the image from cropping automatically when I'm trying to resize it. I do have to turn it off if I actually want to change the aspect ratio in the cropping tool, but that works for me.

[plumb4me]

A couple of post about the new aspect ratio, that can give you more info.

https://community.zazzle.com/t5/creator-news/design-tool-update-image-control/ba-p/89552#M114

https://community.zazzle.com/t5/general-zazzle-discussion/resizing-aspect-ratio-hold-shift-key/m-p/8...

[chefcateringbiz]

Plus the other thing to hate is you get all the background images so if you have a delicate crop task, it's difficult to see where one image is being cropped and what's the background. Would be better if the entire background within the crop anchors was whited out.