Alex Mills

By default, WordPress uses the center of an image when creating cropped thumbnails. SmartCrop attempts to find and use the most interesting part of an image and centers the cropping on that portion of the image.
This process is entirely automatic and cannot be manually controlled. There are other plugins out there if you wish to manually specify where you want thumbnails to be cropped.
Since this analysis process can be slow on large images, thumbnails are initially center cropped and later asynchronously regenerated to be smartly cropped. This avoids the uploading of new images from being slow. The one side effect of this however is that your browser may load and cache the centered thumbnail before it’s re-cropped.
Want to smartly crop your past image uploads? You can use my <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/regenerate-thumbnails/" rel="ugc">Regenerate Thumbnails</a> plugin to trigger that. Make sure to uncheck skipping existing thumbnails.
<h4>Need Help? Found A Bug? Want To Contribute Code?</h4>
Support for this plugin is provided via the <a href="https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/smartcrop" rel="ugc">WordPress.org forums</a>.
The source code for this plugin is available on <a href="https://github.com/Viper007Bond/smartcrop" rel="nofollow ugc">GitHub</a>.

SmartCrop

Instead of cropping to the center of an image, SmartCrop attempts to use the most interesting part of the image for the thumbnail.

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Digiwidgets is an online image-editor that makes it easy for anybody to add and edit images on their wordpress website. While Digiwidgets incorporates popular image-editing tools such as filters and cropping, it also has more photoshop-style features such as history-tracking, multiple layers, google fonts, and its most important feature – predefined templates.
The template feature is for designers/developers who create WordPress websites for clients and want their clients to be able to easily add/edit images on their website. No more distorted, squashed or wrong-sized images. With Digiwidgets, you can create a ‘template’ for each image area on a website (bio pic, header image, content slider…) so your clients can create their own images without your help and without expensive photoshop software.
Features
<ul>
<li>Predefined templates and one custom template (specifically sized spaces to fit images into)</li>
<li>Multiple layers (of images and text, easy to change layer order)</li>
<li>Google fonts (add interesting and fun fonts to your images)</li>
<li>History tracking for the life of the project (can undo all the way back to the beginning… even if it started months ago)</li>
<li>Filters (including grayscale, brightness, and contrast)</li>
<li>Resize and rotate images and text</li>
<li>Flip images horizontally or vertically</li>
<li>Add borders to images or the entire canvas</li>
</ul>
Checkout <a href="http:digiwidgets.com/buy-now/" rel="nofollow ugc">http:digiwidgets.com/buy-now/</a> to look into getting a premium version of the plugin with even more features.
Premium Features
<ul>
<li>Unlimited custom templates</li>
<li>Cropping (rectangle and circle cropping)</li>
<li>More filters (including remove white and opacity)</li>
<li>Viewable history – view all the history for the project and navigate easily to any point therein</li>
</ul>

DigiWidgets Image Editor

I have given DigiWidgets to many designers to test out with their client base and I have heard nothing but good reviews and praise for DigiWidgets. As the developer, I work towards fixing bugs anyone might have or even listen to suggestions that they would like DigiWidgets to do for them.



DigiWidgets perfect for Designers!

You need to pay for literally everything.

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Photoshop-style photo editor supports layers, google fonts, photo filters, cropping, history-tracker and specific-sized templates defined by admin.

SmartCrop vs DigiWidgets Image Editor