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How to crop image into a perfect square using Gimp
If you found yourself in a position where you wanted to crop a certain photo into a perfect square but you just couldn't figure it out how, than this tutorial is for you.
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In GIMP, open a picture you want to crop into a perfect square.
I'm going to crop the snowboarder in my picture.
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In the Crop Tool settings bellow, choose the Fixed option and Aspect Ratio then enter 1:1 in the aspect ratio field bellow (see picture).
1:1 means width and height of the crop are going to be exactly the same, meaning you will get a perfect square crop.
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Now just click and drag your mouse over the area you want to crop, and as you will notice, your selection remains in a perfect square no matter how you drag your mouse.
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You can now move your crop selection at will by clicking into the center of your selection and holding the mouse button.
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And you can resize it at will by clicking and dragging the crop selection corners.
When you are satisfied with your cropping selection, just press Enter.
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Done! You should now have an image, cropped into a perfect square.
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