Derrick Tennant

It may be my personal preference, but I really like having the “Featured Image” metabox up at the top of my screen. I use it almost first thing on every post I write, so I don’t like searching for it. This plugin will force that metabox on top for the “post” post type. 
There’s only one option available, in the regular Media Settings page. “Allow Users to Customize Order” which is ON by default, can force users (if off) to have their “Featured Image” metabox stuck to the top.
Feel free to contact me, emrikol@gmail.com, if you have any problems or questions.

Featured Image on Top

Tired of having to move your "Featured Images" metabox to the top?  I've got a fix for that!

Volkmar Kantor

The plugin provides the functionality to adjust the crop region of cropped images. It add buttons to the edit-pages and media-dialog to access a crop-editor. 
In the crop-editor you can choose one or more (if they have the same ratio) imagesizes and cut-off the part of the image you want.
The plugin is especially useful for theme developers who want to keep full control over cropped image sizes. If you want to dive even deeper, you can get informations about the hooks and filters on the <a href="https://github.com/vollyimnetz/crop-thumbnails" rel="nofollow ugc">github page of the plugin</a>.

Crop-Thumbnails

Amazing work on this plugin. It make developers and users life easier creating a handy-way to crop thumbnails in the used sizes across the site.

Where's the button "This plugin should be native"?

"Crop Thumbnails" made it easy to get exacly that specific image-detail you want to show in your featured image or gallery image.

Featured Image on Top vs Crop-Thumbnails