Business owners seldom care to learn a great deal about graphic design, but understanding the value and meaning of owning layered, original source and vector graphics will save money, time and help you keep your artwork reconsistent. The reasons for keeping artwork, like logos, consistent is a much longer conversation about brand impressions. It's expensive and time consuming to reproduce artwork or hack on old artwork that isn't saved in a format that allows incremental modification for a new ad piece or website update.

This video shows you how to batch crop images with the free tool Irfanview.

You will need notepad (or pencil and paper), a file manager (like Windows Explorer) and Irfanview. Irfanview is a free, very powerful graphic editing tool.