Cropping and disappearing menus!

[aerrin]

Hello all

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[nikkilicious377]

Well as far as I know there is not a 'one-go' way to crop and resize in gimp. sadly, you have to do them separately. But it is easy. You just go to your menu bar at the top of your image. Under the 'image' heading, click 'crop'. That will allow you to play with different crops and stuff. Once you have the crop you want, then click 'okay' or whatever it is. Then you go under 'image' again and go down to 'scale image' and that is where you type in the 100 for the width and 100 for the height or whatever you want the scale to be. :) And if it turns out you don't like it, just do undo.

As for the other thing, I don't use the photoshop layout for gimp so I'm not sure how to get it back but maybe try opening it as a dialog? Hmm. And now that I think about it, if you use the photoshop view, maybe what I just said won't work for you, lol! Sorry! I hope I helped.

[laisserais]

i'm pretty new to gimp, as well, and that was definitely something i was disappointed with. as the first commenter noted, as far as i know, in gimp, you have to first scale the image, which you do in the 'image' menu, then crop, which you can get to under the 'tools' menu, then scroll down to 'transform.'

as far as keeping the 'crop' dialog open, have you looked in the 'windows' menu, under 'dockable dialogs'? good luck!

[laisserais]

but oh! so far as trying out crops quickly, if you use the selector tool, it'll grey out the background, leaving an approximate 'crop' for you to check out. it's not the same, but it's the closest gimp gets. unless there's a more experienced techie out there who knows more about it. in which case, please to be sending them my way. ;)

[kerravonsen]

See my comment below.

[aerrin]

Yeah, I've been playing with this, and it just doesn't do the job very well for me. I'm the sort of person who needs to /see/ it and has trouble visualizing, so I often crop half a dozen times before I settle on something. And it looks different all big!

Thank for the suggestion, though!

[laisserais]

dude, this is genius! i never even thought of doing it this way *facepalm*

excellent tip. thank you!

[aerrin]

I'll have to play with this. This might work for me. Thanks!

[kerravonsen]

My preferred method of cropping-and-resizing is, rather than cropping and un-cropping, I set canvas size and move the image around to tweak the crop

[laisserais]

these are excellent ideas, thank you so much! in all of the gimp tutorials i've looked at, none of them have been fandom oriented, so figuring this out is SUPER COOL. thank you!

[kerravonsen]

You're very welcome!

[aerrin]

Thanks for the suggestions - I'll play and see whether anything here works for me.

[vilakins]

I set the crop tool to fixed, then ratio 1:1, then crop to what I want. Then I resize, so admittedly that's two steps.