now that I am using my chromebox all the time I don't run windows programs so for the few times a month I need something done I have to find a work around solution.
to cut a photo down or edit it, which I do once in a while I have started using Pixlr it will load a file from my hard drive, or from a url and allow me to edit the photo then I can save it to my hard drive, or I can save space on my hard drive and save it directly to google drive.
Picresize - this site also lets you resize and crop pictures which is what I do most often, it does not have as many options as pixlr, but it does the basics and it has some easy to use options that lets you make a picture 25%, 50%, or 75% smaller it also tells you what size the picture will be once it is resized which is useful if your looking to make your picture fit some specific size.
I have not done any work with pics for a long time. For most people simple does the job.
The problem with too many features is that you might not get around to doing anything period.
Unless your pics are in the cloud, back them up as you would other important documents. Many of us have the right intention but often fail to act.
Thank you for giving such tools suggestion I have been facing the same issues. Although I am having portable Adobe Photoshop software but it is still a lot of hectic to open the software just for cropping the image. I work for web design company Houston and I usually come across similar jobs of editing photos and cropping them. Pixir and Picresize I am going to give them both a try. Keep adding such helpful threads waiting for more such threads which make us designer's life easier.