1. A digital image manipulation system for automatically cropping acquired digital images, comprising: a memory device configured to store at least one acquired digital image; a crop analysis segmentation subsystem configured to divide at least one image into a set of similarly colored regions; a classification subsystem configured to classify each region into one of a set of possible classes which include subject, background, and distraction at a minimum, wherein the classification is made by selecting the most likely of separate probability estimates for the region being one of a number of possible classes which include subject, background and distraction at a minimum; an optimization search configured to search possible crop boundaries; and a selection module configured to automatically select a highest rated crop boundary determined from the search and based on an optimization criterion that is derived from results of the crop analysis segmentation and classification subsystems.