"crop" image

[Charlie_Shafton]

I saw this post on a LinkedIN group and thought the community members would be able to help out with these two questions about images in AEM: 
 

1. Is it possible to disable the free crop, yet, retain and use other custom defined crop configurations? We do not want authors to crop the image using the free form tool, but, should be able to crop based on the pre-defined crop dimensions. 
2. Is it possible to apply a default crop config on the image as soon as "crop" is clicked or image is loaded in to the html5smartImage?

I'm not looking to extend/create my own component based on html5msartImage, rather wondering whether there is any config or ootb way to do it?
From my understanding, this cannot be achieved, wanted experts here to validate me.

[Sham_HC · Accepted solution]

http://experience-aem.blogspot.com/2013/09/cq-image-custom-aspect-ratios-crop.html