How to crop using paint.Net

[muff13]

I am looking for some advice as I seem to be unable to crop a photo using paint.Net. I am able to use the cropping tool and can select the area I wish to crop by drawing around it, but that is as far as I can get and I can then see no way of saving the selection or of even showing just the selected area.
I fear that I am being stupid as I am sure that I have used this program before with success but have not used it for some time.

[Buenchico]

See here:
http://www.ehow.com/h...o-using-paintnet.html

Chris

[bazwillrun]

Heres a Youtube video

http://youtu.be/8fm-vupcBhs

[muff13]

Thanks to both of you. It would appear that I have a problem with paint.Net as I have tried both of those but it does not work. So I shall have to try to repair the program or remove and re-install.

[Buenchico]

I don't use Paint.Net ('cos I've got a full professional version of Photoshop) so this is a bit of a long shot, but I wonder whether your version of Paint.Net uses the same convention as Photoshop does? If so, cropping is achieved through right-clicking (after selecting the relevant area, of course) and selecting the 'Crop' option.

If you want a freebie which is as good as Photoshop (but with an equally steep learning curve) try Gimp:
http://www.gimp.org/

For a simpler (but still high quality) image-processing freebie, try Serif PhotoPlus SE:
http://www.serif.com/...ware/?MC=FSSPHOTOPLUS

Chris

[muff13]

Thanks Cris - I have just installed the latest version of paint.Net and have not got any further so I think that I shall probably uninstall it and go for Serif PhotoPlus as don't want a complicated editing program but one that will just do the basics.

[bibblebub]

I've got the latest version of paint.net - v3.5.10 - and cropping works fine for me.

[shiznit]

Have you tried Photoshop Elements?. It is like a watered down version of Photoshop for the lay person. Although Photoshop is the nuts, but I am biased