Every blogger who uses WordPress as the main platform on which the blogs are powered on need to do a lot of image editing before they upload it to their blogs or insert into blog posts. Some of the minor things that need to be done with almost every image are cropping, resizing, rotating, and watermarking functionality. Every small functionality if done on the system consumes lot of time and can be saved if the functionality is available in WordPress itself.
Thanks to Scissors plugin you can have all these functionality of cropping, resizing, rotating, and watermarking right inside your wordpress itself. It integrates itself quiet well inside the WordPress image upload and management dialogs .It also let you automatic resizing of images while uploading images and supports automatic or manual watermarking of images. By default, it maintain the Aspect ratio of the image too while the images are being re-sized.

You can configure basic settings forĀ cropping, resizing, watermarking quite easily in the configuration panel of WordPress plugin. It also supports automatic watermarking of all your images without you watermarking them manually every time you upload them.

If you are a blogger with WordPress as core platform and your posts have loads of images, then this plugin is must for you.
PS: Even though the plugin page says that it wont work with WordPress 2.9 and above, it does work wih latest version of wordpress i.e. WordPress 3.1.3


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Will those features work if my images are hosted on external photo sharing sites like Photobucket, Imageshack etc?
@Sam
scissors wont work on images hosted on any other server
ciao a me non funziona con l’ultima versione di wp. 3.2.1 a voi?