Original title: Windows 8.1 Photo Gallery problems

Did windows cancel support for Photo Gallery? Help screen just refers to Microsoft support and after long chat, they were no help. Specific problem--why doesn't "crop" button work? It did in the past.  Scanned small photo and can't crop the scanner background.  Also wanted to retain the sepia color of photo, but it will only scan in gray tone.  Tried Paint but that didn't work either. Is there a better app to download?