GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 323669
Golden section guides to cropper
Last modified: 2008-01-15 13:03:08 UTC
There should be option to show golden section and center-line guides while cropping. Especially golden section guides would be good, because it would be lot faster for computer to calculate correct golden section than by hand, which I'm doing by now.
This boils down to bug #156858, doesn't it?
IMO it doesn't - if I got the reporter's intention right, the guides discussed here are supposed to appear inside the crop frame and are thus more like crosshairs than a guide.
Yes, the intent was like crosshairs. With those crosshairs you can adjust the size and position of the crop frame, so that the golden section fall to right place. Like, if there was a person in the picture, you would place his/her centerline on the golden section crosshair, if there was a portrait, you could place side of his/her face parallel with the golden section crosshair. Golden section has been used as a guide to arrange settings in various pictorial arts for centuries. Look at these Wikipedia articles, especially Rule of Thirds. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_ratio#Aesthetic_uses http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_of_thirds
Confirming. This would be a nice addition for the rectangle tool, so that all tools derived from it can get this (right now, the new rectangualr selection and the crop tool).
Karine Delvare has summarized this in her blog: http://edhel.nerim.net/blog/index.php?/archives/17-Golden-section-guides-to-crop.html
*** Bug 335697 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Created attachment 66785 [details] [review] Adds a guide option to the crop tool Here is an implementation for this, adding visual guides inside the crop rectangle. Guides available : center lines, rule of thirds, golden sections. I'm not sure whether it would be useful for the selection tools too.
Created attachment 66787 [details] [review] Adds a guide option to the rectangle tool Same as previous one, but now all rectangle tools get the option (crop + rect select + ellipse select).
2006-06-05 Karine Delvare <edhel@gimp.org> * app/tools/tools-enums.[ch]: added GimpRectangleGuide enum. * app/tools/gimpcropoptions.c * app/tools/gimprectangleoptions.[ch] * app/tools/gimprectangletool.c: added GimpRectangleGuide option to draw guides inside the rectangle. Fixes bug #323669.