You can customize your selection just like with the Rectangle Select Tool. 3 comments. Image → Crop to Selection. Move the mouse to adjust the cropping region as you wish. You do this with the Tool Options dialog. From there, I could manually reduce the offsets by 3 and sizes by 6. In the Rotate dialog, enter the value you want, and then click the Rotate to rotate this image. Crop to Selection The Crop Image command crops the image to the boundary of the selection by removing any strips at the edges whose contents are all completely unselected. But when we applied a rotation, we skewed the image out of alignment with the canvas. If there is no selection for the image, the menu entry is insensitive and grayed out. 3. If you haven’t installed GIMP, just click here to download this image editor. By signing up you are agreeing to receive emails according to our privacy policy. Thanks to all authors for creating a page that has been read 236,946 times. It isn't. Click File in the menu bar at the top. Thank you for choosing VisiHow! Click the Crop tool icon or tap on the Tools > Transform Tools > Crop to activate this tool. Go to the top left and click "File," then look down the list and hit "Save" or "Save As." Once you have your subject with a transparent background, you can use GIMP to paste it into any other image. GIMP is a free photo editing software that can be downloaded at gimp.org. While you can use selection tools like Ellipse Select Tool and Rectangle Select Tool to select an image region with an definite shape, Free Select Tool allows you to select a region on an image with free shape you want. If you have any questions of comments regarding this tutorial or the program used, just add them to the section below. Press the delete key on the keyboard. Selecting a region is an inevitable part when editing image in GIMP. It is always best to create a file to save your cropped photos to first in your 'pictures' file. It's in the menu bar at the top of the screen. Now, on your image: If you want to restrict the image to its center and remove the dark margins, then you use the Crop tool, and there is no need to invert the selection. Instead I tried "select all", brought up the rectangle select tool options, then clicked inside the image to transfer the size and position info into the options. (What I really want to do is cut-and-paste multiple layers at once; I'm making a plug-in to help.) One of the selection tools offered by GIMP is Scissors Select Tool. How to crop images in GIMP. Follow these instructions and try to crop or rotate your images using the GIMP image editing software! Perhaps you want your motive to have another background or you need to remove details that are irrelevant or sensitive. There are 3 ways that I know of: Press Enter. I won’t be covering this process for this particular help article as I have several tutorials on how to draw selections using various tools (i.e. Drag the mouse and highlight a region the same way as the Crop Tool, and then adjust the selection area. Select the Crop tool either by clicking its icon in the toolbox or using the keyboard shortcut SHIFT+C. You also have the option to choose a specific aspect ratio of you final picture. Drag the mouse to draw a rectangle around the region of the image you want to keep. This will be quite a brief tutorial, but I see that a lot of users are searching Google with this question, so let’s help them out. This can be confusing as there will be other saved files you have worked on, including the one you just cropped. Step 1. Then my lack of Gimp experience appears, because "Crop" does not remove the pixels outside of the selection! I have not scripted with the GIMP before, so I looked up some GIMP crop scripts. 49. When you crop an image, you cut a portion of an image from a larger image. On older versions of GIMP, it may have an icon that resembles an Exacto knife. Cropping. If at any time you’d like to start over or decide not to crop at all, you can press the “Esc” key on your keyboard to back out of the operation. Areas which are partially selected (for example, by feathering) are not cropped. You are mistaking the Crop tool for a selection tool. We know ads can be annoying, but they’re what allow us to make all of wikiHow available for free. I have access to the GIMP, but not photoshop so I assumed that the GIMP would be the best tool to use. Areas which are partially selected (for example, by feathering) are not cropped. 6. and then: Edit->Paste as New. Select the Crop tool from the toolbar. {"smallUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikihow.com\/images\/thumb\/6\/69\/Crop-an-Image-Using-GIMP-Step-1-Version-2.jpg\/v4-460px-Crop-an-Image-Using-GIMP-Step-1-Version-2.jpg","bigUrl":"\/images\/thumb\/6\/69\/Crop-an-Image-Using-GIMP-Step-1-Version-2.jpg\/aid1854279-v4-728px-Crop-an-Image-Using-GIMP-Step-1-Version-2.jpg","smallWidth":460,"smallHeight":346,"bigWidth":728,"bigHeight":548,"licensing":"