When people upload photos, it is often they do not want to send the whole image. Sometimes they prefer to send only a portion of an image containing the main object. For example, they may want to take a portrait photo, cut off everything but head and shoulders, and send it to your website. In this case they need some simple tool allowing them cropping photos before upload.
Aurigma Image Uploader 7 includes a simple editor that enables users to crop a photo while they select files for the upload. They just click an icon displayed over the thumbnail in the uploader applet, and the crop dialog appears.
Crop rubberband can be freehand or it may have fixed aspect ratio according to Image Uploader settings. Also, you can define if it should be landscape-oriented, portrait-oriented, or both.
When the user is all set, the crop selection is saved and the user continues selecting other files for the upload. The photo cropped by the user is marked with an appropriate icon.
Before the photo is uploaded, the user can get back to this photo and change crop settings or even discard it. When the upload starts, Image Uploader crops the photo according to the user selection and send it to the server.
Crop settings can be specified not only by a user. You can do it programmatically using JavaScript. Why it may be useful? Imagine that you want all photos to have the same aspect ratio ratio. When a photo is added to an upload list, you can check if it has correct proportions. If not, you can set crop frame to the center of the image and cut off unnecessary portions of the image.
Learn more detailed how to configure crop with Aurigma Image Uploader 7