Comments on: Much better Gimp cropping

By: Janne

Janne — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 16:01:16 +0000

Thanks, Sven. The ability to crop a series of images identically (same size and position) is something I use surprisingly frequently. Looking forward a lot to the upcoming release!

By: Raphaël Quinet

Raphaël Quinet — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 12:44:23 +0000

You were wondering about “a more obvious way to let me know how to make the crop happen”. My suggestion was to add a temporary Crop button in the status bar, in the same place as the Cancel button that appears when you run a filter (try any filter that runs for more than two seconds and you will see immediately what I mean). The same could be done for the transform tools: Rotate, Shear, etc. We haven’t implemented that for GIMP 2.4, but maybe we can find a good solution during the next development cycle leading to 2.6.

By: Sven Neumann

Sven Neumann — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 09:20:35 +0000

The dialog is completely gone, but you can still enter the crop size directly in the Crop tool options. Currently only in pixels but we are working on enabling input of real-world units again. Hopefully this will be ready in time for 2.4.0.

By: nicu buculei

nicu buculei — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 06:03:40 +0000

My favorite part of the improved crop tool is the possibility to use some guides (rule of thirds, golden sections). I find the rule of thirds useful for composition.

By: Janne

Janne — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 01:19:38 +0000

Sounds like a very good update (and yes, I use it often enough to really care as well). One thing though - the dialog is completely gone? I use the ability to set a specific crop size in pixels quite often, and I certainly hope I still can enter exact size and position somehow.

By: Matthew

Matthew — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 23:29:26 +0000

Hmm.. I think it’s a massive improvement. I’d perhaps not use boxes in the corners though — it’s rather strange looking. Presumably that’s the dragable area — but if all edges were dragable then and the mouse pointer changed to show which the dragable direction/axis then it would seem that those boxes aren’t needed. If you really needed something I’d design a transparent icon with dragable ridges rather than boxes.

By: Bryan Clark

Bryan Clark — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 18:01:58 +0000

You might need to check the release candidate version, mine is RC3. But I use the Crop tool, from Tools -> Transform -> Crop or (Shift-C).

By: Toni

Toni — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 17:55:40 +0000

You got my attention! How did you get those controls? The only way I know how to crop in Gimp (using the 2.4 in Gutsy or any previous version) is to make a rectangular selection and then doing Image → Crop to Selection.