Cropping in Acorn

Inside Acorn there are many ways to crop an image, reading up on these can help determine the best choice down the road.

Cropping with the Crop Tool

Select the Crop Tool and drag diagonally on your canvas. You'll notice as you're dragging that a grid pops up, dividing the crop area by thirds. This has to do with the Rules of Thirds∞. Being conscious of this little grid will help you out, and make your pictures look better.
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Dragging the Window

The fastest way to crop ever invented. Simply hold down the Control key and resize the window. This will let you quickly enlarge or shrink an image you're working on.
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Fancy Crop

Fancy Crop attempts to look at what you've got on the screen and crop out the extraneous white space. This is perfect for any picture with a solid color border you're trying to get rid of. To do this, choose the Crop Tool and click in the middle of the picture you're trying to crop out. If Fancy Crop can help you, it will. Otherwise you'll have to drag the bounds of the box out by hand.

Trim to Edges

Located under Image->Trim to Edges this little command will automatically crop out anything that is a constant color, or no color at all. Not quite as cool as Fancy Crop but gets the job done for a lot of images.

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