Although Photoshop Elements 12 enables you to crop your images as rectangular shapes, the Toolbox -- accessible in Expert mode -- features the Elliptical Marquee tool to help you select a round area.

To manually crop a picture in Microsoft Word, Excel, or PowerPoint, select it, and in the Picture Format tab on the ribbon, click the top half of the split "Crop" button.

The cropping tools of Powerpoint 2010 can help you to cut and remove unwanted portions of your images. You can remove or hide part of an image, simply by reducing the horizontal and vertical edges.

Cropping an image in GIMP and other graphics programs highlights the area of the image that you want to retain and deletes the portion of the image that fall outside this area. You can use cropping to ...

Follow the steps below to crop an image to fit a shape in Microsoft Excel: Launch Microsoft Excel. Click insert and click the Illustration button and select a picture from any of the options offered ...