Cropping an image is a really simple operation. In her recent book "Beginning GIMP From Novice to Professional Second Edition", Akkana Peck discusses how to do it on pp 35-38. I highly recommend you get the book, it is worth every penny.
If you prefer to scale an image, look on pp 21. Bob On 05/03/2009 10:44 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: > Greetings; > > Latest gimp-2.6 from fedora installed, and once again I am attempting to crop > an image and cannot. Why is it so difficult to select a rectangular area of > the image, like the whole top 1/3 or the whole bottom 1/3, and just plain crop > it just as if I'd taken the paper cutters to the print. But while I can make > the 'canvas' white, I cannot actually cut that part of the canvas and toss it > in /dev/null, which should be indicated by the checkerboard pattern replacing > it. > > Really guys, I fail to see why such an operation requires I post to the list > each and every time I want to do it. So how DO it go about getting rid of, > totally and forever if I haven't saved a backup copy, those parts of an image > that should never ever see the light of day, or worse yet, waste bandwidth > when it has to be uploaded at a hair over 50k/sec on my adsl circuit. Just > turning it white doesn't cut it, I want it gone. > > This, most simple of a photo manipulation has been hidden behind portable menu > mumbo jumbo for a decade now, is it not possible to fix it for almost main > menu access, just by drawing a box around what you want, invert the selection > and anything outside the box is gone forever, or at least till its undone. > > Thanks guys, but please fix this most simple of photo editing function there > is. > > You can see my problem at > <http://gene.homelinux.net:85/gene/emc/probe-asmbled-1.jpg> > > Just as soon as I reboot to a kernel with working networking that is. > > _______________________________________________ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
