[Gimp-user] croping an image

[malefico]

You can crop an image without copy/paste anything, just right-click on 
your selection and choose "Crop to Selection" and voila.

Regards

malefico.

Nathan L. wrote:
> What tutorial are you using to crop your image? Can you give me a link or URL
> to it? Here is the method that I use to crop an image (by crop I assume you
> mean remove parts of the image and resize/reshape the image to the part that
> you kept.)
>
> 1. Click on the selection tool of your choice.
> 2. Select an area on your image that you would like to crop the image down
> to.
> 3. Copy the part of the image you are keeping by pressing Ctrl+C or using the
> Edit menu (then click on Copy)
> 4. Right click on the image and go to the Edit menu again, then click on
> Paste as > New Image
>
> Now you will have the cropped image in a new frame and you can save it. I
> don't think that I've ever used any cropping tools or scripts in the GIMP, so
> I don't really know about them. In my mind though, the ideal should be: "Do
> things the simplest way that you can possibly think of".
>
> Hope that helps, and if you could tell me more about the tutorial you are
> using, then I might be able to help more.
>
> Nathan
>
>   
>> Hello 
>>
>> I am following the help instructions to crop an image, i do everything fine
>> until it says, a little crop and resize information dialog box pops up,
>> telling you information about the borders that where defined, but i do not
>>     
> get
>   
>> this when i have croped the image
>>
>> When i do press the help button, and go to "crop an image" i do not get
>>     
> this
>   
>> box coming up , as it shows you on the help page.
>>
>> I am a complete beginner and  probably doing something wrong
>>
>> can anyone help
>>
>> windows xp,  gimp 2.6.0
>>
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