Step by Step Tutorial on How to Crop an Image in GIMP

The very first thing you need to do is download and install GIMP. Depending on your internet speed, this shouldn't take more than a few minutes (five at the very most).

As you scroll down the page, you will find two buttons directing you towards the download links for Windows. You can either download it through BitTorrent or Directly. The best option is to do it directly; it doesn't come with many other add-ons.

Once you are done downloading it, the system will walk you through the install process, which isn't complicated.

Once you have downloaded and installed GIMP, simply go to the Search box on your computer and input GIMP. It will be one of the options available now.

Simply click on the result, and the tool will load. Once it's done loading, you will have a page that looks like this:

Now, to load the image you want to manipulate into the tool, all you have to do is click on the File button at the uppermost top left corner of the tool's window.

That will give you a drop-down menu with a list of possible options where your original image could be on your hard drive. Click on Open.

That will take you to a window where all the possible options where your image could be on your hard drive are presented. Simply choose the image file holding your image and click Open.

Once that is done, the original image you want to manipulate (the one you have chosen through the above process) should dominate center stage.

Now, the beauty of using GIMP is that it gives you a host of options when it comes to image manipulation steps and provides different image formats. Take something as simple as cropping an image. For the most part, most image manipulation tools will only give you one or two options.

GIMP, on the other hand, gives you multiple options (around five different ways to do this). For the sake of simplicity, let's take a look at some of the easiest ways through which you can achieve a cropped image in GIMP.

How to Crop Image in GIMP Using the Cropping Tool

This is by far the simplest approach. All you have to do is click on the Cropping Tool and drag it across the image you want to manipulate.

You can find the cropping tool at the top left corner of your image as shown below:
Once you click on the cropping tool, it's loaded onto your cursor. All you have to do now is click the left mouse button on any part of the image you want to manipulate and drag the resulting crop area as you desire.

You can then manipulate the edges of this area to fit exactly to the size you want to crop.
Once done, simply click Enter, and your image will be cropped to size.

Once you click Enter, your image will be cropped to the desired size. The next step involves saving the image. To do that, you need to go back to the GIMP tool, click on the File button again, and then go to Save As and save the image where you want it to be on your hard drive.