Crop an Image from Within Impress

Sometimes you may want to use a detail from a picture or other image in a presentation slide. Rather than going through the extra step of using a photo editing program such as Gimp to crop the photo, you can do this within Impress at the same time you are inserting it into the slide you are building.

(1) Insert the image into the slide by (a) left clicking on "Insert" in the Main Toolbar, (b) left clicking on "Picture" in the first menu to appear and (c) left clicking on "From File . . ." in the second menu.























(2) Navigate to the location of the image on your computer and left click on "Open."























Note: The image could be stored on your hard drive, a CD, a flash drive, etc.

(3) A thumbnail of the image will appear in the "Slides" panel and "full size" in the Workspace, for you to edit.



















(4) Right click from anywhere within the image in the Workspace and left click on "Crop Picture . . ." in the menu that appears.




















(5) In the next menu, make sure that "Keep scale" is checked. This will automatically maintain the proportions of the image as you edit it.



















(6) To crop the left side of the image: (a) left click on the up arrow for the left side until the vertical bar for the left margin in the thumbnail moves to where you would like it to be.





















(7) Ditto for the right side of the image.




















(8) Ditto for the top of the image.

(9) And ditto for the bottom of the image.





















(10) You can readjust the size of the detail by using the up and down arrows next to "Left," "Right," "Top" and "Bottom."

Left click on "OK" when you are done.


















(11) Only the portion of the image you selected will appear in the slide.