Comments on: Tips & Tricks: A Workaround For Cropping Pictures on Your BlackBerry

By: Any good free photo editor apps for blackberry? - BlackBerry Forums at CrackBerry.com

Sun, 16 Aug 2009 14:56:01 +0000

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By: CropIt: Simple App Lets You Crop Pictures From Your BlackBerry | BerryReview.com »

Wed, 01 Jul 2009 15:59:13 +0000

[...] One of the features RIM really needs is a simple photo editing tool. CropIt steps into that gap for a single purpose of cropping pictures. It does not let you resize them which sucks but for $1.99 I guess you cannot complain too much. They also have a cool feature for OS 4.6+ which lets you press down in the upper left corner and then drag to the point you wish to crop. On the other hand you can just use the poor mans crop tool that we mentioned a bit back. [...]

By: Bertan

Bertan — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 13:45:35 +0000

I know another picture tool on blackberry phone – Resize Picture for BlackBerry – it can resize and rotate picture on your phone.
See: http://blackberrysms.yo2.cn/resize-picture

By: Joe

Joe — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 00:50:40 +0000

ShrinkIt does not crop. This is a great solution.

By: DonGato

DonGato — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 17:11:43 +0000

Or just use ShrinkIt!

http://blog.berrycoder.com/2008/07/shrinkit-lets-you-resize-pictures-on.html

By: Michael Jones

Michael Jones — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 17:08:35 +0000

Man, that Michael Jones guy sure is clever – wait a minute, that’s me!

I forgot to mention that it is easy to simply rotate a picture this way. Say you turn the phone sideways to get a tall picture. But the subject of the picture is now sideways. Or somebody emails you a picture that is turned sideways. Hmm, how to rotate them?

Sure, you could copy them to your PC, and use Paint or MS Office Picture Manager. But you can also rotate a picture on your BlackBerry.

Use the Rotate menu item in the BB Media viewer, then zoom in, crop out. Like what you see? Click the CaptureIt menu item!

Done. You now have two pictures – the original and the rotated picture.

I know what I am suggesting might seem elementary to some people, but sometimes it is not obvious to people. Similarly, I used to copy pictures to my PC to enlarge them to the perfect size for wallpaper on my BlackBerry Bold, and then I realized that you don’t have to do that. You just zoom any picture to fill the screen on your BlackBerry and then choose “Set As Home Screen Image”.

See, I didn’t realize that it DOES NOT set the home screen image from the picture file, but rather what the screen looks like at the moment that you choose the “Set As Home Screen Image” menu item.