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Cropping by User-Defined Rectangle

You can select a crop region by entering values for the image extents. Alternatively, click Show Image to display an image preview and draw a rectangle of the area that you want to crop.

To manually enter the cropping extents, complete the following steps:

  1. Select an image or mosaic in the Job List.
  2. Click the Image Crop button on the toolbar. The Image Crop dialog box appears.
  3. Enter the cropping extents, then click OK.

To define the crop region by drawing a rectangle, complete the following steps:

  1. Select an image or mosaic in the Job List.
  2. Click the Image Crop button on the toolbar. The Image Crop dialog box appears.
  3. Click the Show Image button at bottom right.
  4. Use the zoom in, zoom out and other tools from the image crop toolbar to position the image.
  5. Click the Crop button on the image crop toolbar.
  6. Draw a rectangle on the image to define the crop region as shown below.

  1. Optionally, adjust the rectangle using the corner or center handles.
  2. Click OK.

The extents of the original image are displayed in the Image Extents panel on the Properties tab for easy reference.