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renegadex has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hi! I wanted to crop a certain area in a picture using ImageMagick, but the area I wanted to crop is rotated. So what I did is that I first rotate the whole image, then, I cropped the image. I do get what I wanted, but if I have a big image, and I only need to crop a very small portion of it, I still have to rotate the whole image.. This takes a lot of time. I have tried to define a boundary, but I am having trouble determining the boundary since the area to be cropped is rotated and the boundary should always be a rectangle. Is there another way of doing it?