Hold shift key of the keyboard then make click on this rectangle and image one by one with the cursor of this tool for selecting both at the same time. Now take the ‘Select and transform objects’ tool from the tool panel or you can press F1 from the keyboard for quick access of this tool. Now draw a rectangle or square above the area or image which you want to crop. Now take the ‘Rectangles and Squares’ tool from the tool panel or you can press F4 as short cut key for this tool. Now click on Open button of this dialog box. I will choose this image and you can see the properties of your selected image in this box also. For opening any image in this software there is many ways but we will go to the Open option of the File menu of the menu bar and click on this option.Ī dialog box for selecting your desired image will be open, choose your desired image from its saved location of your personal computer.

You can use your own image for this purpose or have it from the internet. You can add more panels or tools to this screen as per your requirement.įor doing this task in Inkscape we need an image because i will show cropping by an example of an image so let us have an image.

Below this bar there is another bar which is the Properties bar of active tool or image (on which you are working), moving to downward direction on user screen there is three sections in which at the left side there is tool panel, at the center we have display window area of document and at right side some navigation tools.

We can do it by just following few simple steps but let us first have an introduction of the User interface of Inkscape software so that you can understand the terms which i will use throughout this article for explaining each step.Īt the top, you will find a bar which we is called as the Menu bar and it has a number of menus such as File, Edit, View and some other.

Basic inkscape tutorial