boba feta said:

Isn't cropping the image early defeating the purpose?

How do you mean? The cropping would still be at the same point in the script; it would just crop horizontally a little as well as vertically. If what you say is true though, it could be moved back to the resize stage.

edited - I think 10 and -14 as cropping values do have to change though. My logic was faulty there.

I would be grateful if someone could check the vertical cropping values that I changed. I think they are right.