Picture this ---> you have an image that you're able to upload to your website....once uploaded, you can resize, sharpen, clarify and even watermark....but the one thing you can't do is crop the image....that's right, "crop" it....just like in applications such as Photoshop and Paint Shop Pro. "Now why would I want this?", I hear you say. Because its such a powerful value-add, especially if images play an integral role in your website - anything little thing to give you an edge over the competition right? The way I see, cropping images online is the HOLY GRAIL of image manipulation. My tutorial will show you how to do it via ASP & JavaScript...so let's get started : http://www.googleme.com.a u/articles/how_to_crop_im ages_using_asp_and_javasc ript.asp

ISAPI image resizer. Just upload to it to your webspace and run it! No installation required! It supports creating thumbnails of JPEG, PNG, BMP, TIFF, TGA and GIF images. Preserves EXIF data in your photos and can be used to extract image proportions and EXIF. Can also rotate images since version 2.3!

ASP Component / COM object to create, edit and manipulate multi-frame animated GIFs. Read GIFs from disk, data stream or remote URL, save to disk or export to the browser. Comprehensive functions allow for setting frame properties such as delay and dispose method, copying and reordering frames and manipulating the colour tables. Functions for drawing text and simple shapes. Images can be resized, rotated, cropped or flipped, either as a complete image or as individual frames. Optimisation method to reduce file size. Free trial available with full instructions.

ASPThumb is an ASP component (ActiveX) that allows ASP application to create high-quality thumbnails. You can use this component for automated creation of image previews in your ASP applications.

zImage allows you to resize or change images on the fly, directly in a webpage. Features: Runs in Microsoft IIS servers; Support for 7 image resizing algorithms; Image can be saved to disk or sent directly to client browser; Free rotation; Sharpening, bluring, cropping and flipping; Adjustable degree of JPEG compression. Great for CMS systems

Picture Effector is an ActiveX component that manipulates picture files, allowing you to add a variety of effects as well as draw basic graphic elements on top of an image. Available operations include stretching, rotating, cropping, and saving to an ASP document stream, Jpeg or BMP file. In all, 32 different graphic effects are possible.

Image22 ActiveX allows you to create and modify images dynamically on the fly from inside your application. Load image from file, draw text, lines and shapes, combine multiple images into a final image - collage effect, manipulates colors, size and transparency.

MegaChart is an ActiveX (COM) component that allows to dynamically create professional looking charts of all common types (2d & 3d bars, pies, lines, stacked bars etc.) with just a few lines of code on your favorite language. Chart images can be exported as a binary data to server side applications (CGI, ASP), saved in files (JPG,GIF,BMP,TIFF) or used in any Windows application. The component can generate charts according to data from XML-files.

Aurigma Graphics Mill 2.0 is a set of powerful, fast and memory-friendly components which resolves most of image processing tasks: load/save files of most popular formats, enhance, transform, display, reduce colors, combine images, draw imagery, etc. It includes handy control which allows to zoom, pan, scroll image, select areas of the image and so on. It allows to apply color management (using ICM 2.0), so you can handle CMYK images gracefully.

SSImage is a fast ASP component representing the set of drawing tools and effects that allow you to create/modify/import/export images in most popular web formats, such as GIF (RLE), JPG, PNG, WBMP, and BMP. SSImage offers transparency and mask methods so that you can manage SSImage objects like the layers in a graphics editor. It also supports antialiasing. With SSImage you can quickly and easily generate image thumbnails, draw logos on products, and much more.

Free license available - http://www.websupergoo.com/linktous.htm ImageGlue is a set of Active Server Page Extensions for dynamic image generation. Create and modify quality images on your Windows NT or 2000 web server using simple ASP code. Read and write the following image formats: BMP, PNG, TIFF, JPEG/JFIF, GIF, Photoshop, QuickDraw PICT, Targa, QuickTime Image, Silicon Graphics, MacPaint, FlashPix. Draw image files or data, text, lines, shapes (unfilled, filled or textured). All available anti-aliased. Perform arbitrary transforms (e.g. rotation, skews, scaling) on any of these objects.

acxImage is an ASP component that allows you to create dynamic images on your server (in gif or png format). This component is written in java and Runs on IIS or PWS.

Fath ImageX control and COM component can read and write bitmap images in these graphics file formats: AVI, JPEG, PNG, TIF, PCX, BMP, GIF(read only), TGA, ICO, WMF & EMF (read only). Manipulation and processing features include: resize, rotate, flip, crop, embose, grayscale, etc. Suports TWAIN, AVI creation, memory buffered graphics files, multi-page TIFFs, zoom & scroll, etc.

This component helps to protect your images. You can write color transparent watermark on them. It can be your logo or url of your site. AiS Watermarker reads your image from file (BMP, GIF, JPG, PNG), adds to the image this watermark and saves resulting image in a new file. The component is useful web-designers, hosting company and programmers which plan to use watermarks in their applications.

Aurigma Media Processor is a component which can load files of various media formats and process them. For images and video files it can make a thumbnails, rotate, crop, draw text and so on and save the result as JPEG or BMP. It can grab necessary frame frame of video file, retrieve information about video and audio files. There is a smart algorithm which determines that selected frame is empty and it always retrieves informative frame.

Online Image Editor based on ASP. The Flash-based interface injects an interactive high without ActiveX controls or Java. Extremely easy to use and integrate into your web applications.

ASPPainter can be used to create new and edit existing images. It has a large number of painting functions to draw lines, bars, rectangles, polygons, ellipses, arcs, pie charts, to draw text and fill images. Since the component works with several images at the same time, you can copy, resize, rotate, merge image parts, and use images as painting brushes. Based on Microsoft GDI+ library, the component works fast and stable. Complete source code is available for developers.

Active Image allows you to create or modify PNG, BMP, WBMP, GIF and JPEG images on the fly. Features include: royalty-free for software and web site developers, create new or modify existing images, full source code and installation instructions, text output with selectable font, font styles and angle, draw methods such as rectangle, arc and circle, crop, flip, pie charts, resize and rotate images, reading/saving images from/to databases like MS SQL sever and MS Access, saving/reading images to/from variables of calling program, and exceptions handling.

Want a handy imaging component? Want a killer tool? Aurigma’s incredible Graphics Processor loads and saves most popular web image formats. Want color reduction and dithering? Want to combine images? Graphics Processor pulls it off. Pulls it all off with multiple effects, rich drawing capabilities and so much more…