PictureCutter

The Internet is full of pictures taken of almost anything. These are used in various projects, with a high chance of being enhanced before made into a design elements or funny meme. One simple editing task is cutting specific parts, and is exactly the task applications like PictureCutter are built for.

You don’t even need to go through an installation process to make the application run, which also means you can store it on a USB flash drive to use on other computers as well. However, you do need to make sure .NET Framework is installed on the target PC, although modern Windows iterations come with the feature as a default one. Another consequence is that system registries remain intact, and so does the computer’s health status.

When launched, a simple window comes up, with a classic frame housing all features. In the background, there are various details related to the whole process so you don’t get stuck along the way. In the meantime, you need to pick a folder as source, so you need to make sure all pictures you want to cut are in the same directory, because only one can be used at a time.

Most of the space represents the canvas, and also the place where the selected image shows up. Two additional panels are there, one that shows all pictures in the source directory, while the other is for output. Cutting is simply done by placing a custom box around the area of interest, and double-clicking it to send it to the output list.

PictureCutter lets you manage several properties, accessed from the context menu. These refer to source folder for pictures and project file, border options with size specifications for area and thickness, destination, but with no option for quality or format, as well as a few general details.

Although you can only have one selection box active at a time, it’s enough to get the job done. However, you can’t zoom in on the picture, except if you adjust the main window borders. No other functions are implemented except for flip and rotation, not even simple color sliders.

Taking everything into consideration, we can say that PictureCutter is a straightforward application that can be used to cut custom parts of pictures with little effort. Although it’s pretty light on the set of features, it lives up to expectations by making the process easy to understand, and fast.