Square Cropped Thumbnails?

Does anyone know of a way to resize thumbnails, but also to crop the image to a square format (previously rectangle)?
I've read this is possible with GD and php - just wondered if ADDT could be used?
Many thanks
Mick

Hi Mick,
Here is a link:
http://mondaybynoon.com/2007/12/17/crop-and-resize-images-with-gd-or-imagemagick-v11/
Also if they are for really small thumbnails you could also just force it to be square.
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