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Crop tool

How to crop a screenshot

Cropping removes everything outside the part of the screenshot you want to share. It is the fastest way to make an image more focused and easier to read.

A crop region preview in the EditScr screenshot editor.
Review the crop area before applying it or cancelling the operation.

Try the Crop tool. Paste a screenshot first, then press C.

Open EditScr

Crop an image

  1. Load a screenshot.
  2. Select Crop in the left toolbar, or press C.
  3. Drag over the area you want to keep.
  4. Review the outlined crop region.
  5. Select Apply crop in the top bar, or double-click inside the workspace.

To abandon the pending crop, select Cancel. The source image is not changed until you apply the crop, and Undo can restore a previous step after it is applied.

Crop before export

The crop is included when you copy or download the finished screenshot. Any annotations outside the retained portion are not part of the final image, so crop before your final review. You can still add arrows, shapes, text or redactions to the cropped image.

A useful cropping rule

Keep enough surrounding interface context that a viewer can understand the highlighted element, but remove browser tabs, unrelated panels and empty space that do not help the explanation.

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