Novell LINUX ENTERPRISE DESKTOP 10 SP2 - KDE 08-05-2008 Manual page 280

Crop, Aspect Ratio Crop
Crop your image. Crop cuts to any rectangular selection on top of your image.
Aspect Ratio Crop crops the image following various sophisticated design principles.
Perspective Adjustment
Adjust the perspective of an image. For example, if you notice some odd angles in
shots containing vertical or horizontal lines, use this tool to set them right. Grab
any of the four handles to the corners of your image and move them as much as
needed. Use the Crop tool to remove the resulting black edges of your image and
to trim it down.
Shear
Shift one part of your image to one direction and the other to the opposite direction,
either horizontally or vertically. Specify the angles for vertical and horizontal shear
and use Crop to trim the resulting image.
Resize, Blowup
Scale your image larger or smaller. Resize offers a simple interface allowing you
to manipulate your image size by pixel or percentage. Select whether to keep the
aspect ratio. Blowup performs basically the same resizing operation on your image.
In addition to a simple scaling operation, you can enable filters to apply to the
scaled image to improve the quality of the resulting image. Whenever you need to
print the final result, select Blowup instead for a simple Resize. You can save the
filter settings to a text file and load and apply them to more images later.
Assuming you have an image that is otherwise perfect, but you are not entirely satisfied
with the composition yet or need to crop your image to match a certain paper format
for reproduction. In this case, use Aspect Ratio Crop and proceed as follows:
1 Open your image.
2 Select Transform > Aspect Ratio Crop.
3 Determine the orientation and aspect ratio to use:
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None
Specify a free crop of the image using the X, Width, and Y, Height sliders.
Custom
Select a custom ration of width versus height instead of using one of the
preset values.