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This is a quick way to crop an image using GIMP.
First of all my image is fairly small so I can either
go down to the status bar and set the view to 200%
just change that dropdown.
Or I can use the menu
and use View/Zoom/200%
Or, if you look here, on the Zoom you can see the hot key
and I can hit any of these numbers to go to 100%,
200%, 300, 400, 500 and on.
I’ll work at 200% (hits the 2)
It’s good to know the three ways you can change the zoom value of the view.
I’m going to use the Rectangle Select Tool. What I want to do
is just get a chunk of this photo. I want to get the file size as small as
I can so I’m going to click on the Rectangle Tool
and if you double-click on the tool GIMP will display
the option panel for that tool. I usually put my option panels
over here on the right.
Now, I’ll open up the Detailed Tool Option panel a little bit. You can see that the size of the image
I’m going to select the image. I want the hawk
in the upper corner
I can move this around. I can also shrink the selection or grow it
if I want using the grab bars. Or, I can come over here (in the Tools Option Panel)
and I can type in the size of window that I want.
Always remember that when you input something in GIMP to hit TAB to make that number stick.
So, there’s my selection.... let me move it over a little bit.
I want that bird in the upper left corner
I hit ENTER to do the selection.
If I go up to Image/Crop to Selection
it is going to automatically crop the canvas
and the image right to that bird there.
Then I’ll do a CTRL s to save it.
And that is going to be my new image. Notice that an image
is 135 pixels by 97 pixels. I’m going to write that down and use it for my other images
so they are all consistent.
For each image that I have the bird I’ll be moving the bird down
on the diagonal towards the lower right corner.