UN-cropping pix--how???

[Barrywyoung]

I cropped a picture, but didn't want to lose the original photo....how can I
UN-crop, and how can I in effect create a new picture as the cropped version
without losing original?

 

[JoAnn Paules]

I don't know if it can be uncropped. Ideally you would have saved it under a
different name.

 

[LVTravel]

I cropped a picture, but didn't want to lose the original photo....how can
I
UN-crop, and how can I in effect create a new picture as the cropped
version
without losing original?

Exactly how did you crop the picture?

If in one of the Office programs (Word, PowerPoint, etc.) using the picture
cropping tool, click on the picture and select the cropping tool again.
Drag the side and top sizing handles away from the center and the picture
will "uncrop."

If using an image editing program I hope you have the original picture file
stored as a backup somewhere. Cropped and saved pictures in an image
editing program can't be undone once the image is saved and the program is
closed.

 

[Jim Wood]

Which program did you use to crop the photo? Generally, once a photo is
cropped and saved, what's been removed is gone for good. What you can always
do is pull up your photo in almost any photo-editing program, crop it, but
then Save As... with a new name. That way your original is intact and stays
where it is, and the cropped photo has a new name and location. If you use
MS Word's built-in utility for cropping photos that have been imported, there
is no going back. But the original still ought to be in a photos file
somewhere.

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

I cropped a picture, but didn't want to lose the original photo....how can I
UN-crop, and how can I in effect create a new picture as the cropped version
without losing original?

Copy/paste the cropped picture to give you a new one.

On either of the photos, right click, choose Format and on the Picture tab,
click Reset.

Works in PPT, most versions.

Might work in other apps. You don't mention what program you're using.

 

[Bob I]

Simple, don't use the original, make a copy first.