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How to Crop an Image on Windows 10 [5 Ways]
Windows 10 has plenty of tools to help you crop an image quickly
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Updated onOctober 4, 2023
updated onOctober 4, 2023
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There are a lot of tools that may help you crop an image on Windows 10, including Paint, Paint 3D, Snip & Sketch, or Microsoft Photos. In this article, we will cover all the ways on how to crop images on Windows 10.
What is the shortcut key for crop in Windows 10? Windows 10 doesn’t have a shortcut for cropping an image. However, there are individual shortcuts when you’re using a certain software. For instance, the crop shortcut key for Snip & Sketch is Ctrl + R or Alt + R.
How do I crop an image on Windows 10?
1. Crop an image using Paint
Although Microsoft Paint is a pretty old tool, it still has a lot of tricks under its sleeve. For instance, you canfit it with the latest AI-Cocreator tooland generate interesting artwork.
2. Crop an image using Photos
When you drag the corners, you will see the exact resulting resolution of the cropped image so you can adjust it as you need.
With Microsoft Photos, you may also retouch your image and change the brightness, contrast, exposure, color saturation and more.
If you have trouble with the app, our guide onhow to fix Microsoft Photos issueswill come in handy.
3. Crop images using online tools or third-party software
We won’t be able to list here all the software you may use, but you may crop images using Adobe Photoshop, for example.
It is one of the most popular editing apps with which you can crop, edit, erase objects, or even adjust your subject’s features and poses automatically.
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We also have a selection of thebest image editing toolsthat you should check if you want something more than cropping your photos.
4. Crop an image using Snip & Sketch
You can do a lot more with this tool. We have a complete article on how touse Snip & Sketch to capture, edit and share images.
5. Crop an image using Paint 3D
As you have probably noticed, Paint 3D also has options to choose from a selection of aspect ratios or simply input the resulting resolution in the Custom setting. Make sure you check the Lock aspect ratio option so that your image doesn’t get distorted when you change the resolution.
You may also be interested in reading our guide onhow to add and edit text into a Paint 3D project.
With all the tools above you can crop images for free and we hope that our guide helped you do that quickly.
For any other questions or suggestions, feel free to use the comments section below.
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Claudiu Andone
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Oldtimer in the tech and science press, Claudiu is focused on whatever comes new from Microsoft.
His abrupt interest in computers started when he saw the first Home Computer as a kid. However, his passion for Windows and everything related became obvious when he became a sys admin in a computer science high school.
With 14 years of experience in writing about everything there is to know about science and technology, Claudiu also likes rock music, chilling in the garden, and Star Wars. May the force be with you, always!
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Claudiu Andone
Windows Toubleshooting Expert
Oldtimer in the tech and science press, with 14 years of experience in writing on everything there is to know about science, technology, and Microsoft
