Activating FXImage or clicking on the cropping icon (DAM) brings up the screen for cropping.

Crop-Offset:

Upper left corner of the selection.

Dimension will always display the original image size.

Crop-Dimension:

Will show the width and hight of the selection.

Keep Ratio will ensure that width/height will stay constant when changing either by direct input or by mouse dragging.

Lock will disable changes of width and height by mouse.

Crop-Output:

Set the size and format for the final image.

Fixed Size enables to use presets. If you click on + the preset will be transferred to the cropping area while Keep Ratio gets activated.

Presets for Fixed Size can be defined User/Group TSConfig (s. later)

Percent will be overridden by Fixed Size if selected.

Go back brings you back to the filelist.

By default Fixed Size is

640x480 VGA

800x600 WGA

1024x768 XGA

To define that to your need s. Configuration.

Fixed Size XGA is selected and '+' will be clicked. Result will be shown in next image.

The selection area is adjusted to the selected Fixed Size and Keep Ratio is activated.

Now you can select the image area by moving the selection to the area you like and resize the selection until you get the area you want.

Result is shown on the next image.

We moved the selection and increased the width and height to get the items covered we want in the final image.

Now we click on Crop It.

We will get the Preview shown in the next image.

The selection got scaled to the selected Fixed Size (here XGA: 1024x768).

TIPP:

You can use this also to scale your images to the resolution you want without cropping. Just define presets for the required resolution (s. configuration)

If you want to save the image finally select Store before clicking on Crop It.

As you see the new filename is calculated automatically.