How do you crop an image in Expression Blend?

Question

I know this is leaning more in the direction of a designer question, but as I am faced with developing something which requires me to crop an image, I thought I would give the question a shot.

This seems like a ridiculous question to ask, but I've look all over the IDE (Expression Blend 2) to try and find a way to crop my image, but I can't figure it out.

This seems to be very much in line with Joel's question and is discussed in Podcast 58 in the sense that I'm a complete noob when it comes to designing in Expression Blend. I am adamantly interested in figuring out the most efficient way to do this. I found an article that describes a workflow you can go through that will produce a crop, which I added as an answer below, but I'm really hoping someone else will know of a quicker (less clicks) way to do something as trivial as this.

Does anyone know how this can be done?

Answer 1

I found an article that has steps to do an image crop, but it's very drawn out to do such a simple operation. You would think something that MS Paint can do in a couple button clicks would be similarly easy in Blend.

Here's the link.

I'm still wondering if there's an easier way to do this, however.

The other problem with this approach is that afterwards, I can't change the size of the rectangle that I'm cropping the image with, which I need to be able to do, because I have to have the image be an exact number of pixels in width and height.