Photo editing

[PeJa]

Download from Adobe (Photoshop Album Starter Edition) and play with it for a while - it's free and does all that you seem to need - and more.
PJ

[petersemple]

I have a very old version of Photoshop that you can put a rectangle over the photo that is constrained to the ratio you select. You can enlarge and reduce that rectangle, and move it. WHen you are finished it crops to that rectangle. We use that whenever we print digital photos in the Kiosk. That way, we get to choose what is cropped out, rather than letting the booth do it automatically. Ours is Photoshop 6 from memory. It would not surprise me if you could buy a full retail version very cheaply on ebay, as it is an old version, but it certainly does what you want (and a whole lot more besides)

Peter

[Pagie]

Or if you had an Mac you could just use Iphoto for cropping. I use Photoshop Elements3 for fancy stuff and Iphoto to crop to whatever size you want.

[Termite]

Slightly off subject, the Nikon D3 has the option of composing and shooting in the 5:4 format, just saves a bit of work later if you want a 10 x 8 print.