Reg
Almost any graphics editing program will do this, from lowly freewares (eg
http://www.rocketdownload.com/details/grap/4676.htm) all the way to the big
daddies like Photoshop. Usually the dig camera comes with a software that
will do the cropping along with other things like rotation, etc. I use
Paintshop Pro (www.jasc.com) because it's loaded with other options for
tidying up your image before printing.
Pete

"Reg Siemens" <regsiemens@coldmail.com> wrote in message
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> Sorry if you have answered this question a million times, but I'm new to
the
> world of digital photography and just found out the hard way that digital
> photos are created in 4:3 format when your standard photo processing
> facility print is 3:2 (e.g. 6x4, 7x5, 10x8, etc.).  Taking digital images
in
> to have them professionally printed has resulted in the top and bottom
being
> cropped.  I like to take my photos with very little head room and
therefore
> have found many of my shots are less than ideal when cropped equally from
> top and bottom.  What I'd like to do is manipulate the images prior to
> burning my CD to take to the printer so that I choose how they're cropped.
> So the point of this whole message...what is the best software to
facilitate
> cropping a whack of images to 3:2 ratio prior to printing?  More often
than
> not, I'd like to crop exclusively from the bottom.
>
> Thanks in advance for your help
>
> Reg Siemens
> Winnipeg, Canada
>
>