GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 93360
border for the crop tool
Last modified: 2004-12-22 21:47:04 UTC
Another suggestion for improving the crop tool (aside the fixed aspect ratio in particular). When I play with the crop tool, I sometimes have difficulties to imagine the end result. So I crop and undo, crop and undo, and so on until I get what I want. It would be very nice to have the exterior of the crop rectangle filled up with a solid color (black for example - or it could be customable). That would give a much better idea of the end result. Of course that behavior should be optional, otherwise it would become difficult to find the best position of the rectangle. It could be toggled by a radio button in the crop tool dialog or better, by pressing (and holding?) a key. What do you think of this? AirBete.
This is in the TODO list for some years now. Someone should go ahead and implement this feature.
For the reference, here's the relevant part from the TODO: Crop tool could have an optional shader for the outside area so when you crop, the area outside would show in a darker color / user definable color / black / white etc.. (maybe a selector for the outside area: ____________ Outside fill: [|_none_______| = ] |.black......| |.white......| |.user def...| |.shade 50%..| `------------' That would be very handy for cropping scanned photos etc - one would see the result much easier apart from the rest.
Changes at the request of Dave Neary on the developer mailing list. I am changing many of the bugzilla reports that have not specified a target milestone to Future milestone. Hope that is acceptable.
Setting milestone to 1.3.x because it would improve usability a lot. Removed "black" from Summary.
Chopping from 1.3.x, because no-one's working on it, and it doesn't look that straightforward. Dave.
*** Bug 122412 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Any progress on this "bug"? Thanks.
If there was any, we would have added a comment about it. Are you working on it?
Created attachment 32124 [details] [review] patch that implements darkening of the area outside the crop rectangle
2004-10-01 Sven Neumann <sven@gimp.org> * app/display/gimpdisplayshell-callbacks.c: no need to include gimpdisplayshell-render.h here. * app/display/gimpdisplayshell-draw.c * app/display/gimpdisplayshell-render.[ch] * app/display/gimpdisplayshell.[ch]: added an API to highlight a rectangle (specified in image coordinates). Actually it doesn't highlight but dims the area outside the rectangle. * app/tools/gimpcroptool.c: use the new functionality to show the area to be cropped. Fixes bug #93360.