diff -urp ../imageapi-5.x-1.2/imageapi_gd.module ./imageapi_gd.module
--- ../imageapi-5.x-1.2/imageapi_gd.module	2008-05-29 20:33:32.000000000 +0400
+++ ./imageapi_gd.module	2008-09-02 13:27:10.000000000 +0400
@@ -28,6 +28,14 @@ function imageapi_gd_settings_form() {
     '#default_value' => variable_get('image_jpeg_quality', 75),
     '#field_suffix' => '%',
   );
+  $form['image_crop_background'] = array(
+    '#type' => 'textfield',
+    '#title' => t('Background color'),
+    '#description' => t('Define the image background color for manipulations. Values need to be hexdecimal, eg #FFFFFF is white.'),
+    '#size' => 7,
+    '#maxlength' => 7,
+    '#default_value' => variable_get('image_crop_background', "#FFFFFF"),
+    );
   return system_settings_form($form);
 }
 
@@ -44,8 +52,13 @@ function imageapi_gd_image_close($image,
 
 function imageapi_gd_image_crop(&$image, $x, $y, $width, $height) {
   $res = _gd_create_tmp($image, $width, $height);
-
-  if (!imagecopyresampled($res, $image->res, 0, 0, $x, $y, $width, $height, $width, $height)) {
+  $src_width=min($image->info['width'],$width);
+  $src_height=min($image->info['height'],$height);
+  $src_x=max(0,$x);
+  $src_y=max(0,$y);
+  $dst_x=max(0,-$x);
+  $dst_y=max(0,-$y);
+  if (!imagecopy($res, $image->res, $dst_x, $dst_y, $src_x, $src_y, $src_width, $src_height)) {
     return false;
   }
   // destroy the original image and return the modified image.
@@ -127,27 +140,23 @@ if (!function_exists('imagefilter')) {
  * @todo: add bgcolor setting to add a default background color.
  */
 function _gd_create_tmp($image, $width, $height) { 
+  static $bg_color;
   $res = imagecreatetruecolor($width, $height);
-  
-  if ($image->info['extension'] == 'gif' || $image->info['extension'] == 'jpg') {
-    // grab transparent color index from src.
-    $transparent = imagecolortransparent($image->res);
+  if(!isset($bg_color)) {
+    $bg_color_html=variable_get('image_crop_background', '#FFFFFF');
+    preg_match('/\#?(\w\w)(\w\w)(\w\w)/',$bg_color_html,$matches);
+    $bg_color['red']=hexdec($matches[1]);
+    $bg_color['green']=hexdec($matches[2]);
+    $bg_color['blue']=hexdec($matches[3]);
+    unset($matches);
+  }
 
-    // if indexed transparency, lets preserve it.
-    if ($transparent >= 0) {
-      // get color(r,g,b) for index;
-      $transparent = imagecolorsforindex($image->res, $transparent);
-      // allocate to new image and get new index.
-      $transparent =  (isset($color['alpha'])) 
-        ? imagecolorallocatealpha($res, $color['red'], $color['green'], $color['blue'], $color['alpha'])
-        : imagecolorallocate($res, $color['red'], $color['green'], $color['blue']);
- 
-      $transparent = imagecolorallocate($res,  $transparent['red'], $transparent['green'],  $transparent['blue']);
-      // flood with our new transparent color.
-      imagefill($res, 0, 0, $transparent);
-      // tell the new image which color is transparent.
-      imagecolortransparent($res, $transparent);
-    }
+  if ($image->info['extension'] == 'gif' || $image->info['extension'] == 'jpg') {
+    $transparent =  (isset($bg_color['alpha'])) 
+      ? imagecolorallocatealpha($res, $bg_color['red'], $bg_color['green'], $bg_color['blue'], $bg_color['alpha'])
+      : imagecolorallocate($res, $bg_color['red'], $bg_color['green'], $bg_color['blue']);
+    imagefilledrectangle($res, 0, 0, $width, $height, $transparent);
+    imagecolortransparent($res, $transparent);
   }
   elseif ($image->info['extension'] == 'png') {
     imagealphablending($res, false);
diff -urp ../imageapi-5.x-1.2/imageapi.module ./imageapi.module
--- ../imageapi-5.x-1.2/imageapi.module	2008-06-08 03:02:18.000000000 +0400
+++ ./imageapi.module	2008-09-02 13:26:23.000000000 +0400
@@ -270,14 +270,14 @@ function imageapi_image_crop(&$image, $x
   if (empty($width)) $width = $height * $aspect;
 
   // Ensure target image size is not greater than original size.
-  if ($width > $image->info['width']) {
-    $width = $image->info['width'];
-    $x = 0;
-  }
-  if ($height > $image->info['height']) {
-    $height = $image->info['height'];
-    $y = 0;
-  }
+//   if ($width > $image->info['width']) {
+//     $width = $image->info['width'];
+//     $x = 0;
+//   }
+//   if ($height > $image->info['height']) {
+//     $height = $image->info['height'];
+//     $y = 0;
+//   }
 
   return call_user_func($image->toolkit .'_image_crop', $image, $x, $y, $width, $height);
 }