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I use Adobe Photoshop to prep numerous Website screen shots. One method: click, hold and drag the rectangular marquee tool around the area to save; use image—> crop. Making one continuous, exact selection can be tedious.

I’ve always known that an irregular shaped selection will crop a rectangle that matching the greatest height and width. However, only recently did I realize that this same functionality would increase the speed of cropping my screen shots.

Now, I use the rectangular marquee to make a small pixel selection of the desired upper left corner, use the navigator to quickly slide the view to the lower right, use the add selection rectangular marquee to make a small pixel selection of the desired lower right corner, and then use image—> crop. Even though these are tiny selections at different areas of the image, the final crop is just the right size.