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Edit: [Deleted] I'm sorry, but I don't find the tool intuitive. I ran into issues using it. I installed fresh copy and tried steps commenters suggested and it

by 6DM 10y ago

Edit: [Deleted] I'm sorry, but I don't find the tool intuitive. I ran into issues using it. I installed fresh copy and tried steps commenters suggested and it worked well. However this was not my experience a mere two days ago.

reitanqild 10y ago
? I'm by no means a pro but I can crop an image using gimp in less than 2mins and that includes figuring out where the tools are (I only open it whenever I upload images I guess every third month.)
mixmastamyk 10y ago
Don't know what you're talking about? Cropping and scaling take one click and mouse drag or menu selection respectively.
kaybe 10y ago
What are the problems you encounter?
- 6DM 10y ago
  I usually end up at the point where the image is highlighted, but I can't get it to actually crop for some reason. Knowing about the exacto knife (from another comment) made it a lot easier.
pmoriarty 10y ago
Cropping is a "HUGE pain"? Are you kidding me? 1. Rectangle select. 2. Image -> Crop to selection. How much simpler can you get?
- MildlySerious 10y ago
  Exactly. I found myself using GIMP for exactly those "quick" scenarios because PS, especially before CS6, was just bulky and overcomplicated. GIMP: Roughly select something, zoom in to make it pixel-perfect, see the size of the selection in the bottom left, and just drag until it fits your need. PS? Roughly select something. Figure out the size of the selection. Zoom in. Dig into the menu.. Transform selection? Adjust. What's the size now? .. Nope, thanks. I am done 5 times over in GIMP by the time I did that. I get that GIMP is not perfect, but some people treat like the PHP of graphics software.
  - reitanqild 10y ago
    Complaining about php is like complaining about an axe: Yes, it might hurt incompetent people but the people who master it have a truly nifty tool at their disposal.
    - FatalBaboon 10y ago
      Complaining about PHP is sanity of someone who learned more than one language.
      - reitanqild 10y ago
        As someone who has coded in c, java, javascript (before it was cool), perl, python, visual basic I still see a clear niche for php even though I don't use it anymore.
        rbanffy 10y ago
        Indeed. It's just that it's not a good language (like Visual Basic).
  - throwanem 10y ago
    > PS? Roughly select something. Figure out the size of the selection. Zoom in. Dig into the menu.. Transform selection? Adjust. What's the size now? .. Nope, thanks. I am done 5 times over in GIMP by the time I did that. Photoshop has a separate crop tool. It gives you a region with handles so you can make fine adjustments before pulling the trigger. You can crop to selection in Photoshop, but it's not the primary way of doing so. "Why not just use selections the way GIMP does?" you might ask. Well, why not just split the functionality the way Photoshop does? Both approaches are valid. Complaining about one or the other because it's not the way you are accustomed to do things is at best unproductive. (Edited to add: And I gather GIMP has a crop tool, too, and has done since at least 2.4, which was released in 2007. So maybe it's just a matter of learning to use the tool at hand? I mean, don't get me wrong - there's a whole lot I don't like about GIMP! I won't use it unless I have literally no other alternative, including Paint.net and command-line transforms via ImageMagick. But I do try to avoid complaining about problems it doesn't actually have.)
- Grue3 10y ago
  You can get simpler in GIMP: just use a specialized Crop tool instead of Rectangle Select.
- 6DM 10y ago
  I accidentally closed the tool box and couldn't figure out how to get my selection to actually crop. I just installed a version so I could reproduce but it's working flawlessly now...
Grishnakh 10y ago
That's weird. I'm not a regular user of GIMP at all, but cropping and scaling are pretty much the main things I do use it for, and it's pretty simple and easy. The crop tool is the one that looks like an Xacto knife blade, and the scaling tool is right there in one of the main menus.
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kruhft 10y ago
Shift-C.
- 6DM 10y ago
  Shift-C is only intuitive if you know the actual short cut. So how do you find out about it? Google.
Too 10y ago
Agree! The discoverabilty UI in gimp is horrible, it's like the first time you accidentally ended up in Vi and didn't know how to even do basic shit like writing text or closing the application. For basic image editing just use Pinta on linux and Paint.net on windows. Unless you are a professional designer they will cover 99% of your use cases.

by 6DM 10y ago

reitanqild 10y ago

? I'm by no means a pro but I can crop an image using gimp in less than 2mins and that includes figuring out where the tools are (I only open it whenever I upload images I guess every third month.)

mixmastamyk 10y ago

Don't know what you're talking about? Cropping and scaling take one click and mouse drag or menu selection respectively.

kaybe 10y ago

What are the problems you encounter?

6DM 10y ago
I usually end up at the point where the image is highlighted, but I can't get it to actually crop for some reason. Knowing about the exacto knife (from another comment) made it a lot easier.

pmoriarty 10y ago

Cropping is a "HUGE pain"? Are you kidding me? 1. Rectangle select. 2. Image -> Crop to selection. How much simpler can you get?

MildlySerious 10y ago
Exactly. I found myself using GIMP for exactly those "quick" scenarios because PS, especially before CS6, was just bulky and overcomplicated. GIMP: Roughly select something, zoom in to make it pixel-perfect, see the size of the selection in the bottom left, and just drag until it fits your need. PS? Roughly select something. Figure out the size of the selection. Zoom in. Dig into the menu.. Transform selection? Adjust. What's the size now? .. Nope, thanks. I am done 5 times over in GIMP by the time I did that. I get that GIMP is not perfect, but some people treat like the PHP of graphics software.
- reitanqild 10y ago
  Complaining about php is like complaining about an axe: Yes, it might hurt incompetent people but the people who master it have a truly nifty tool at their disposal.
  - FatalBaboon 10y ago
    Complaining about PHP is sanity of someone who learned more than one language.
    - reitanqild 10y ago
      As someone who has coded in c, java, javascript (before it was cool), perl, python, visual basic I still see a clear niche for php even though I don't use it anymore.
      - rbanffy 10y ago
        Indeed. It's just that it's not a good language (like Visual Basic).
- throwanem 10y ago
  > PS? Roughly select something. Figure out the size of the selection. Zoom in. Dig into the menu.. Transform selection? Adjust. What's the size now? .. Nope, thanks. I am done 5 times over in GIMP by the time I did that. Photoshop has a separate crop tool. It gives you a region with handles so you can make fine adjustments before pulling the trigger. You can crop to selection in Photoshop, but it's not the primary way of doing so. "Why not just use selections the way GIMP does?" you might ask. Well, why not just split the functionality the way Photoshop does? Both approaches are valid. Complaining about one or the other because it's not the way you are accustomed to do things is at best unproductive. (Edited to add: And I gather GIMP has a crop tool, too, and has done since at least 2.4, which was released in 2007. So maybe it's just a matter of learning to use the tool at hand? I mean, don't get me wrong - there's a whole lot I don't like about GIMP! I won't use it unless I have literally no other alternative, including Paint.net and command-line transforms via ImageMagick. But I do try to avoid complaining about problems it doesn't actually have.)
Grue3 10y ago
You can get simpler in GIMP: just use a specialized Crop tool instead of Rectangle Select.
6DM 10y ago
I accidentally closed the tool box and couldn't figure out how to get my selection to actually crop. I just installed a version so I could reproduce but it's working flawlessly now...

Grishnakh 10y ago

That's weird. I'm not a regular user of GIMP at all, but cropping and scaling are pretty much the main things I do use it for, and it's pretty simple and easy. The crop tool is the one that looks like an Xacto knife blade, and the scaling tool is right there in one of the main menus.

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kruhft 10y ago

Shift-C.

6DM 10y ago
Shift-C is only intuitive if you know the actual short cut. So how do you find out about it? Google.

Too 10y ago

Agree! The discoverabilty UI in gimp is horrible, it's like the first time you accidentally ended up in Vi and didn't know how to even do basic shit like writing text or closing the application. For basic image editing just use Pinta on linux and Paint.net on windows. Unless you are a professional designer they will cover 99% of your use cases.