Once you have uploaded an image into the Media Library – a Pixabay image, for example – it can be edited with WordPress’s basic image editor.
Before you compose the story, insert the Pixabay image into the Media Library as outlined on this page.
Now, type out your story as a new post. Then position your cursor at the very beginning of your text, as always, and click the “Add Media” button. Choose the media Library tab, and you will see the image you just inserted from Pixabay.
Click on that image, and over to the right, near the top, you will see a link called “Edit Image.” Click on that.
That brings you into the WordPress image editor. F.irst, go over to the right, in the CROP section, in the “Aspect Ratio” fields, enter “3” in the first box and “2” in the second.
Now go over to the image on the left and click on it. Use your mouse cursor to drag the verythe and you I we are is here and is be all our I know in and Messieurs is here or not we are verypart of the image that you would like to keep. You will note that the relative size of the height and width of your crop will be constrained to that 3:2 ratio you defined above. As soon as you have defined the area you want to keep, click the “Crop” button above the image. That will produce an image that is at the proper ratio, but not necessarily the proper size yet.
To achieve the proper size, go over to the right, under SCALE IMAGE, put “300” in the first box, and the second box will automatically display “200” or “199.” (The 199 is a result of rounding when WordPress does the math. It is close enough.) Then click on the “Scale” button, and then the “Back” button in the bottom right.
That will bring you back to the media library with the image you are working on selected. If you look over to the right near the top you will see the dimensions are now 300X200 (or 300X199). Now you are ready to insert the image into the post, as usual.
As with anything, once you do it a couple of times it will go very quickly.