My New Mac, Lion 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, click a picture you want to crop, and click the Edit button at the bottom of the iPhoto window so that editing tools appear (see Figure 36-1).

2. Click the Crop button. A white border appear around the four corners of your picture.

3. Drag one or more corners to define the portion of the image you want to keep, as shown in Figure 36-3.

   

   Figure 36-3. To ...