[SOLVED] How to crop an avatar to make it fit?

Hello, if I'm in the wrong forum, please correct? Thanks.

I have WLMail2011, firefox, etc.

But the problem is in another website where my avatar appears 3/4s chopped up on one side. That site said it's because it's not square and need to crop it, but I used it in all other sites and it's perfect.

I tried to crop it on one side in my computer but all it did was to pencil in where I indicated I wanted it cropped. couldn't erase that pencil thing so had to delete the pic and copy it again.

Thanks ever so much for any suggestions. Adela

P.S. I put it here as you can see, and no problem.

If you have MS Office 2007 or 2010, there's a handy tool called MS Office Picture Manager. It works very well for cropping and resizing photos.

Thank you Nibiru for your prompt response, but I only have MS Office 2003...so I'll have to find some other way. Adela

Provide me with the image, and i'll crop it for you.

Otherwise, there is pixlr.com/editor you can try. I use photoshop.

There are a handful of Image Creators / Photo Editors / Viewers in our Freeware DB. I have not tried them all but I would assume all but the viewer have two solutions to your problem (and even IRFANVIEW has at least one of them).

1) crop, where it allows you to select a portion of the image and then you can 1a) paste selection to a new image or 1b) crop to selection, discarding the excess in the current image.

2) resize which allows you to shrink or enlarge your existing image to a specific pixel height and width. You may need a combination of the two to get as much picture within the limits as possible and still chop off an edge or two rather than distorting the image.

You will need to know what the pixel limits are for their site and then tweak you image to that size.

If you do not wish to learn a software package, as Ace said you could use the "Go advanced" button and then the paperclip option to attach your image here and tell us the pixel size needed and we could easily adjust it.

Thank you so much Ace for offering to do it for me! I'm attaching the screenshot image which fit perfectly in all the sites I posted it, including yours here, and also the one broken at that particular site so you can see how much of it, is eaten. I hope these screenshots came out ok and that you'll be able to fix for me.

Also thank you TrainableMan for all the good ideas which I'll keep in case I run into this problem again, but I did try for an entire day searching Google about this matter plus a couple of other forums, and I went crazy with the multiple ramifications explained and offered there...especially since I don't seem to have the softwares they use.

Thanks a lot to both your kindness! Adela

This one is square 100x100.

Give it a try.

To download it, right-click on the image and choose "Save Image As".

THANK YOU SO MUCH TrainableMan! You did it! I hastened to post it on that site and it looks beautiful!

Did you diminished the size of the figure? Or cropped the longer left side to make it square? I'll have to remember when it happens again, to diminish it to 100 x 100?

Thanks again!!! adela

You didn't necessarily have to "crop" a portion to get it squared too. You could expand the top and bottom to get it square without having to remove any of the existing image.

Here's a 120x120 version, and the image was a bit low quality so I fixed up all of the pixelated parts in this one. The flag is the same size, it's the background white area that is 120x120

MS Office 2003 has the same feature also, for future reference.