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Old February 18th 18, 02:23 AM posted to rec.photo.digital,alt.comp.freeware,alt.windows7.general
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Default Windows freeware to lock in a 3: or 4:3 aspect ratio for cropping

On Sat, 17 Feb 2018 20:50:48 -0500, nospam wrote:
This is designed to be simple, quick cropping and
resizing, while retaining the best possible image
quality when desired. (Crop a JPG and you'll
lose some quality,


not when it's a lossless or non-destructive crop.


That's true for lossless. But the cropping itself is always destructive.

but you can minimize the
loss, or avoid it by saving as BMP.)


and drastically increase its size.


IMO, BMP should only be used when a software doesn't support a better image
format. How it stores 24bpp image pixels is unacceptably wasteful.