Hi Bryan, This is not actually a bug, it's a feature. The Shotwell crop tool wasn't designed to crop images to arbitrary dimensions. It was designed to crop images to aspect ratios in the range commonly used by photographers, for printing and sharing on websites. So there's logic in the crop tool that constrains the aspect ratio to within a certain range, because in the world of photography there's no reason to crop a photo to say, 1836 x 4. In fact, when we designed the crop tool, we considered trying to crop a photo to too extreme an aspect ratio to be an error. We thought this was okay, because Shotwell is a photo manager and not an arbitrary image editor, like GIMP.
If you need arbitrary image editing capabilities, you can always install GIMP and launch it right from Shotwell by right-clicking on the photo you'd like work with and choosing "Open with external editor..." After you save the image in GIMP, it will automatically be updated in Shotwell. I admit, however, that we might've been too aggressive in setting the constraints of the crop tool, so I've opened a bug-fix ticket for relaxing them here: http://trac.yorba.org/ticket/3482 . Regards, Lucas _______________________________________________ Shotwell mailing list [email protected] http://lists.yorba.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/shotwell
