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Autoselect picture region for resized crop?

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dez93

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Hi all. I've got a new HTC Touch HD and want to add pictures to all my contacts (It uses outlook contacts). There's a function on the camera to take a picture for a contact, and this ends up being a 240x320 jpg. If i've already decided which original picture sources I want to use, is there any way I can quickly and freely select the region and zoom so it'll crop and resize to exactly what I want?

I'm imagining something where you can open the pic, then set the crop-resizer aspect ratio then use the scroll wheel to grow or shrink the rectangle, and move the mouse to select the region.

If anyone know if this wonderful idea exists, please let me know! Failing that, how have people done their kinda thing themselves?

Cheers,

Dez
 
If I were doing it, I would use OpenOffice.org, IrfanView, and ImageMagick as follows:

1. Make a spreadsheet in OpenOffice.org, with Left, Top, Width, and Filename columns, and another column with a formula that uses ImageMagick's "convert" to calculate a correctly-sized picture based on the width (and derives the height).
2. Run Dir /b to get a list of the pictures, and copy/paste that into the spreadsheet.
3. Open each picture in IrfanView, select it roughly, and copy the numbers in the title bar into the spreadsheet.
4. Copy/paste the results of the formula into a batch file and run it.

But I'm living up to my sig again. Hopefully someone has a simpler solution?
 
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