Codeigniter Crop

[eluser]Mat-Moo[/eluser]
If your only cropping, why are you calling resize?

Did you look at image_moo? 3 lines of code, but it auto crops it to the center for you, so might not be any good...
$this->image_moo
->load('DSC01707.JPG')
->resize_crop(697,183)
->save('thumb_ddd.jpg');