My New Mac, Snow Leopard Edition, 2nd Edition

Cropping a Photo

You might capture a great image that contains a bit too much of the background. To make it easier to see the subject of your photo, you can crop it, which means selecting just the part of the picture you want to keep and deleting everything else around it.

To crop a picture, do the following:

1. In iPhoto, view the picture you want to rename. (To view a picture, click Events or Photos under the Library category in the right pane, or click an album under the Albums category.)

2. Click a picture to edit, and click the Edit button at the bottom of the iPhoto window so that editing tools appear (see Figure 29-1).

3. Click the Crop button. A white rectangle appears around the center of the image, as shown in Figure 29-3.

4. Move the mouse pointer over ...