title: Built-in Windows Phone 8.1 Image Crop Screen
body: <p>I'm developing an app using Windows Phone 8.1 where I'm loading an image from the PictureLibrary into a BitmapImage and displaying it in a 150 pixels square.</p>
  
  <p>What I need is to be able to, after selecting an image, open a control where the user can select an area to crop the image to a 150 pixels square, similar to <a href="http://wscont1.apps.microsoft.com/winstore/1x/fa72bbb0-5d25-4485-a23f-b578dd2d29b8/Screenshot.243081.1000001.jpg" rel="nofollow noreferrer">this</a>.</p>
  
  <p>Were I using Windows Phone 8, I would be able to achieve this using PhotoChooserTask, as pointed out in <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/25769364/photochoosertask-built-in-crop-option-for-windows-phone-8-1">this question</a>.</p>
  
  <p>The beta version of Lumia Imaging SDK had the EditingSession, as shown <a href="http://www.microsofttranslator.com/bv.aspx?from=es&amp;to=en&amp;a=http://geeks.ms/blogs/jyeray/archive/2013/07/21/windows-phone-8-nokia-imaging-sdk-2-editando-im-225-genes.aspx" rel="nofollow noreferrer">here</a>, but it was only available when the SDK was in beta, as answered <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/20174638/nokia-imaging-sdk-problems-with-editingsession-class">here</a>.</p>
  
  <p>It seems there's no built-in Windows Phone 8.1 control to do this, nor an easy way to do so.</p>