On Sun, 2004-12-26 at 07:38 -0800, Kenward Vaughan wrote: > On Sat, Dec 25, 2004 at 11:33:43PM -0600, Alex Malinovich wrote: > ... > > And though I hate to admit the need for tools such as these, SIMPLIFIED > > GUI tools for specific tasks tend to be better in Windows. As a great > > case in point, most digital cameras come with software included that > > lets you quickly and easily crop, resize, or otherwise manipulate > > photos. These are all things that can be done with Gimp or a few > > command-line tools in Linux, but none of them are all that SIMPLE. > > There's a great program by Kodak which makes cropping pictures a breeze. > > It automagically suggests a selection of the photo to crop and, GASP, it > > lets you DRAG the crop selection borders. > > > > (This has always been a pet peeve of mine with The Gimp, though I > > believe Photoshop suffers from it as well. WHY OH WHY can't we drag the > > borders of a selection after we've made it??!?!?!) > ... > > ??? The autocrop function may not work directly on a photo (or not > well, at least), but certainly you can drag the selection around and > change its size/borders (quite easily, too). I wouldn't imagine > autocropping to be particularly useful on most average photos > anyway--it tends to remove too much border area (though I don't know > about the Kodak one). Could you elaborate on changing the size and borders of a selection in The Gimp? I've worked with it for quite a while at home and at work and I've NEVER been able to resize a selection once it's been made. I know about the "add" and "subtract" modes, but what I'd like is to be able to just hover over the bottom right corner of a selection, get a little diagonal line icon, and drag it to a different size rectangle. Is this actually possible and how the heck did I miss it?! -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TODAY! Encrypted mail preferred. You can get my public key from any of the pgp.net keyservers. Key ID: A6D24837
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