Maybe I've missed your question entirely, but if I haven't, you might consider resizeing the canvas (don't rescale the image, resize the canvas). Use the move tool to move the layer so the stuff off the canvas is the stuff you'd rather lose. Save in your favourite image format and presto.

On Wed, Aug 20, 2003 at 12:22:23PM -0700, David McWilliams wrote:

I don't know of a easy way of doing this, so I guess that's why I am asking.

I used a digital camera that can give me output @ 1600x1200, an aspect ratio of 1.33:1. As we all pretty much know, standard photo prints most commonly come in 6"x4", 1.33:1, or 7"x5", 1.67:1, 10"x8", 1.25:1.

Is there a way of accurately cropping a print to a desired aspect ratio. For example, I have a 1600x1200 shot that has some stuff that I could loose, but still be left with a image good for an OK 7"x5". If I just resize it to an appropriate aspect ratio, I still get the junk.

What I'm looking for is some kind of 'selection box', or a selectable aspect ratio, standard or not, that is also resizable that will enable me to select a portion of an image and get rid of the rest.

Is there an easy way?

Hope this makes sense to someone.

Thanks in advance,

David

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davidkmcw@yahoo.com (2003-08-20 at 1222.23 -0700):

Is there an easy way?

For the moment, no, there is not a easy way, you get aspect ratio (via rectangle select) or resizable (via crop tool), but not both. Check bugzilla or mailing list archives, it has been covered at least a couple of times.

GSR

Hi there!

I do not know if this list has got a FAQ or not...but it seens like this one is going to be #1 when such a FAQ is updated.

I can imagine: 1) How to make a fixed aspect ratio crop? ....

2) What is the GIMP?

...

___________ Regardless, let's put hands on it:

Double click on the "rectangular selection" tool icon. Click on the "fixed size/ratio" widgstuffie and choose your ratio. Start a selection,and while holding the left button down, hold SHIFT on the keyboard.
To move the selection around after it's done, holt ALT + click and drag. To crop image to the selection, choose the crop tool, click on the image, and click on the "from selection" button.

Regards, JS
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David McWilliams wrote:

I don't know of a easy way of doing this, so I guess that's why I am asking.

I used a digital camera that can give me output @ 1600x1200, an aspect ratio of 1.33:1. As we all pretty much know, standard photo prints most commonly come in 6"x4", 1.33:1, or 7"x5", 1.67:1, 10"x8", 1.25:1.

Is there a way of accurately cropping a print to a desired aspect ratio. For example, I have a 1600x1200 shot that has some stuff that I could loose, but still be left with a image good for an OK 7"x5". If I just resize it to an appropriate aspect ratio, I still get the junk.

What I'm looking for is some kind of 'selection box', or a selectable aspect ratio, standard or not, that is also resizable that will enable me to select a portion of an image and get rid of the rest.

Is there an easy way?

Hope this makes sense to someone.

Thanks in advance,

David

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Hi,

On Wed, 2003-08-20 at 21:22, David McWilliams wrote:

What I'm looking for is some kind of 'selection box', or a selectable aspect ratio, standard or not, that is also resizable that will enable me to select a portion of an image and get rid of the rest.

The rect-select allows to set a fixed aspect ratio. You can use it to select the part of the image you want to keep, then crop to that area. In GIMP-1.3 there's a menu shortcut for cropping to selection, while in version 1.2 you need to use the "From Selection" button offered by the Crop tool.

Yes, we should add an aspect ratio setting to the Crop tool to ease this rather common task...

Sven

Hi,

On Wed, 2003-08-20 at 21:29, Daniel Carrera wrote:

Maybe I've missed your question entirely, but if I haven't, you might consider resizeing the canvas (don't rescale the image, resize the canvas). Use the move tool to move the layer so the stuff off the canvas is the stuff you'd rather lose. Save in your favourite image format and presto.

I don't recommened that. At least you would have to resize the layer to image-size before you save or you might end up with an image of the original size. Most file plug-in don't care about the image dimension and will save an image with the full layer size.

Sven