On Wednesday 11 January 2006 11:45 pm, net kat wrote:

I'm trying to figure out IF and How the Gimp can perform a crop/ resize task which Photoshop can?

This task is: in Photoshop, I can set Crop Tool dimensions, and when I drag in an image, the marquee will be that aspect ratio. When I finalize the crop, Photoshop will either crop down to those pixel values, or enlarge the selection to the pixel values.

When I read the help file for Gimp, it's not clear that I can do this. Can I? Can anyone shed light on this?

No, the GIMP does not do that.
Cropping and scaling up are different operations both in implementation and on the UI.

It is possible to write a script for doing this - that would crop or scale up to a rectangular selection, for example.

If you wnat the script, please tell me if you have gimp-python running (or try to get it running), or ask someone to write it in script-fu for you.

Otherwise, it seens a nice feature, and I guess you can ask for it on GIMP's bugzilla (bugzilla.gnome.org , describe the desired feature in detail, mark the bug severity as "enhancement"), if you really mind about it.

GIMP developers will give their say wether it is indeed nice or clutter, and then, someone might some day volunteer to implement it.

Regards, JS
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thank you!

nk

On Thu, 12 Jan 2006, Joao S. O. Bueno Calligaris wrote:

On Wednesday 11 January 2006 11:45 pm, net kat wrote:

I'm trying to figure out IF and How the Gimp can perform a crop/ resize task which Photoshop can?

This task is: in Photoshop, I can set Crop Tool dimensions, and when I drag in an image, the marquee will be that aspect ratio. When I finalize the crop, Photoshop will either crop down to those pixel values, or enlarge the selection to the pixel values.

When I read the help file for Gimp, it's not clear that I can do this. Can I? Can anyone shed light on this?

No, the GIMP does not do that.
Cropping and scaling up are different operations both in implementation and on the UI.

It is possible to write a script for doing this - that would crop or scale up to a rectangular selection, for example.

If you wnat the script, please tell me if you have gimp-python running (or try to get it running), or ask someone to write it in script-fu for you.

Does that mean you have such a script? If so, I would be interested in a copy ;-) (I am not sure about posting it here if it is too big, but http://registry.gimp.org/index.jsp might be a good place - there are still way to few python plugins ;-)

Best, Arnd

Von: "Joao S. O. Bueno Calligaris"

On Wednesday 11 January 2006 11:45 pm, net kat wrote:

This task is: in Photoshop, I can set Crop Tool dimensions, and when I drag in an image, the marquee will be that aspect ratio. When I finalize the crop, Photoshop will either crop down to those pixel values, or enlarge the selection to the pixel values.

No, the GIMP does not do that.
Cropping and scaling up are different operations both in implementation and on the UI.

Otherwise, it seens a nice feature, and I guess you can ask for it on GIMP's bugzilla (bugzilla.gnome.org , describe the desired feature in detail, mark the bug severity as "enhancement"), if you really mind about it.

As you seem to have understood how the feature should work, I think it might be better if you try to describe it in your words - to me it sounds like seeting a fixed size for crop, something which should be possible in GIMP 2.3 already.

Michael

Grumble..

I made the script, but just as I was testing it, I realized the rectangular selection cannot be larger than the image size to begin with. SO the interface I had imagined is not pratical.

The thing I had thought is a small script that would just double a image's canvas size, without hasle - sou you can bind a shortcut to it, tehn make the selection, and press a secont short-cut key to this script.

But I no longer have time now to deal with it - I will do later.

Regards,

JS ->

On Thursday 12 January 2006 05:31 am, Arnd Baecker wrote:

On Thu, 12 Jan 2006, Joao S. O. Bueno Calligaris wrote:

On Wednesday 11 January 2006 11:45 pm, net kat wrote:

I'm trying to figure out IF and How the Gimp can perform a crop/ resize task which Photoshop can?

This task is: in Photoshop, I can set Crop Tool dimensions, and when I drag in an image, the marquee will be that aspect ratio. When I finalize the crop, Photoshop will either crop down to those pixel values, or enlarge the selection to the pixel values.

When I read the help file for Gimp, it's not clear that I can do this. Can I? Can anyone shed light on this?

No, the GIMP does not do that.
Cropping and scaling up are different operations both in implementation and on the UI.

It is possible to write a script for doing this - that would crop or scale up to a rectangular selection, for example.

If you wnat the script, please tell me if you have gimp-python running (or try to get it running), or ask someone to write it in script-fu for you.

Does that mean you have such a script? If so, I would be interested in a copy ;-) (I am not sure about posting it here if it is too big, but http://registry.gimp.org/index.jsp might be a good place - there are still way to few python plugins ;-)

Best, Arnd