Rotate and Crop Picture for Garment or Quilt Block
Use the Rotate and Crop Picture page to select the section of the picture that is to be used to create the background. If required, adjust the crop lines to select the desired part of the picture.
Rotate
Rotate
the picture from 0 to 359 degrees. Adjust the picture angle as desired. This is often necessary with scanned pictures.
Enter the desired Rotation angle
or use the up/down arrows to change the angle. The preview will show the effect.
When the picture is rotated between the 90 degree steps, the picture is made larger and white background is added.
Crop
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To adjust the crop area, position the mouse over the crop boundary until a double-headed arrow
appears, then click and drag to move the boundary line. -
To move the crop area, position the mouse inside the crop boundary until a four-headed arrow
appears, then click and drag to move the whole rectangle. -
To redraw the crop area, click and drag outside the crop boundary to draw a new rectangle, which can then be adjusted as required.
Initially, the picture is automatically cropped to remove excess background color.
Sometimes, the automatic crop area may not appear to remove as much background color as possible. This can happen when the background color appears to be a plain color, such as white, but actually has minor variations that are not immediately visible. For example, this often happens with the JPEG-JFIF Compliant (*.jpg, .jif, .jpeg) picture format.
Select All and Automatic
Use Select All to select the whole of the picture. Use Automatic to set the crop lines back to the default position for the current picture.
Rotate and Crop a Picture
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Drag the rotational slider to rotate the picture to the desired angle.
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Drag the blue handles on the crop area boundary line to select the desired part of the picture.
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Drag anywhere inside the crop box to move the crop box.
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If desired, click Automatic to select the crop lines automatically, or click Select All to use the whole of the picture.
Alternatively, enter a number in the rotation angle number box, or use the arrows to increase or decrease the angle of rotation.
Hold the Shift key while dragging to resize the rectangle proportionally. Hold the Ctrl key while dragging to resize the rectangle without moving its center.
If you need to expand a crop box again, make sure it is not touching the edge of the frame, as this will stop it expanding.
Perspective Correction
To remove the effects of perspective in a picture, or to correct skew, select Perspective Correction 
. When using Perspective Correction, the crop handles are red.
Move the red handles so that the crop lines frame the picture. Use the Zoom tools to view the outline of the picture more clearly.
When taking a picture, hold the phone or camera so as to avoid reflected light and shadow on your subject.
Stretch Picture
Drag the Stretch Picture 
slider to make the picture in the Preview wider or narrower.
Save Picture
Use Save Picture 
to save your edited picture.
Change the Perspective in a Picture
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In the Rotate and Crop Picture page, ensure that Perspective Correction
is selected. -
Move the pointer over one of the red crop handles in the corner.
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Move the red corner handles so that the crop lines frame the picture. The angle of the adjoining crop lines changes.
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Drag theStretch Picture
slider to correct the proportions of the picture. -
If desired, Save
the edited picture.
The pointer changes to a diagonal double-headed arrow 
.
A version of the picture with the perspective corrected appears in the Preview area.
When taking a photo for a background, hold the phone or camera so as to avoid reflected light and shadow on your subject.
Zoom
Use the Zoom functions to change the view of the picture.
The fabric preview on the right is not affected by zoom.
Use Zoom In
to magnify the view. Move the pointer over the picture and the pointer changes to the zoom in pointer
. Then either click a point you want to zoom in towards, or click and drag a rectangle around the area you want to zoom in to and release the mouse button to zoom. When zoomed in, use the scroll bars to move around.
Use Zoom Out
to shrink the view. Move the pointer over the picture and the pointer changes to the zoom out pointer
. Then click a point you want to zoom out from.
Click Zoom To Fit
to fit the picture to the preview area.
Click Real Size
to view the picture at its real size in pixels. This means that one pixel of the picture uses one pixel of the screen.