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How do I shrink my canvas to capture the image on it?

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How do I shrink my canvas to capture the image on it? laredotornado 28 Dec 22:28
  How do I shrink my canvas to capture the image on it? Steve Kinney 28 Dec 23:48
laredotornado
2016-12-28 22:28:20 UTC (almost 8 years ago)
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How do I shrink my canvas to capture the image on it?

Hi,

I'm using Gimp 2.8.18 on Mac Sierra. I opened an image, erased a few things, and now want to shrink the canvas to only capture the image. I tried "Image" -> "AutoCrop Image" and "Image" -> "Fit Canvas to Image" from the menu, but neither of them did anything. My image remains as you see it in my screen shot. This is a PNG image, so not sure if that affects thinngs . How do I eliminate all the unnecessary space around my image and keep only the image itself?

- Dave

Steve Kinney
2016-12-28 23:48:38 UTC (almost 8 years ago)

How do I shrink my canvas to capture the image on it?

On 12/28/2016 05:28 PM, laredotornado wrote:

Hi,

I'm using Gimp 2.8.18 on Mac Sierra. I opened an image, erased a few things, and now want to shrink the canvas to only capture the image. I tried "Image" -> "AutoCrop Image" and "Image" -> "Fit Canvas to Image" from the menu, but neither of them did anything. My image remains as you see it in my screen shot. This is a PNG image, so not sure if that affects thinngs . How do I eliminate all the unnecessary space around my image and keep only the image itself?

- Dave

Attachments: * http://www.gimpusers.com/system/attachments/408/original/Screen_Shot_2016-12-28_at_4.23.34_PM.png

Hey Dave,

I see some blue clutter across the bottom of the image in your screen shot: Automatic cropping (by layer or image) won't remove that. The Crop tool (its button in the main toolbox looks like an Xacto knife) will crop the image to whatever box you put on the screen. With the crop tool active, click and drag to make your box, adjust your box (its corners and edges turn into click-and-drag handles when the mouse pointer is over them), click in the middle of it and zap, there ya go.

:o)