On Tue, 2003-08-05 at 22:52, Timothy E. Jedlicka - wrk wrote: > I've tried some of the cropping plug-ins but either I don't understand how to > use them, or they don't do what I want. > > I have a "full frame" photo that I want to prepare for printing. The photo is > 2x3 aspect ratio(so lets say 2000x3000 pixels). I want to print it > at 3.5x5 (inches or 2000x2857 pixels). I want to position the > crop in the photo - i.e. in landscape I want to eliminate a few pixels > from the left and a few from the right. > This isn't too hard to do with the current tools (could be easier), but > > lets say I want to crop just a face out of a photo of 3 people, but keep a > 3.5x5 aspect ratio - I would like to be able to slide the crop frame around > and see how it would look with 2 faces, or all 3,... > > Ideally I set an aspect ratio, and then can resize the crop frame on the fly > while I decide on the best composition just by sliding the corner of the > frame. Any ideas of an easy way to do this?
There is an enhancement request for this already: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=118775 What you can do is to use the rect-select tool which allows to set an aspect ratio and then crop the selection. Sven _______________________________________________ Gimp-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
