Comments on: How to crop photos in Gimp tutorial

By: Zach Shaner

Zach Shaner — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 01:45:46 +0000

Nancy,
You are awesome! ive been told by so many people thats its not possible to crop freeform shapes in gimp but i figured i would look at a couple more pages. Thanks so much this works flawlessly

By: Sherry Jo

Sherry Jo — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 20:50:37 +0000

You rock Nancy, I just found gimp & started playing w/ it.
wow cool stuff, I will be reading more of your tutorials.

Trying to get christmas pictures printed before deadline.

Thanks again & have a Merry Christmas & Happy New Year
Sherry from Missouri

By: Nancy

Nancy — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 13:37:18 +0000

Hi Sheila,

Yup, you are correct. I’m guessing you want to just have the shape your selecting, so use the freeform selection tool to define your shape. Then, from the menu, click SELECT and INVERT (CTRL-I). Now you’ll see all the rest of the image selected. Press DELETE and you’ll be left with your irregular selection shape.

By: Sheila

Sheila — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 02:04:43 +0000

This is much, much further than I have gotten in my search for crop answers thank you! However, i am using an irregularly-shaped crop and “autocrop image” doesn’t seem to work – it just crops to a rectangle shape, not my irregularly defined shape. Can you help?

By: Rafter242

Rafter242 — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 11:23:24 +0000

Thanks again.
Several other websites were not helpful.

By: Nancy

Nancy — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 01:43:31 +0000

Thanks for the comment! I just posted an even easier way to crop pics in GIMP here: http://nancyfusco.com/wp/index.php/2009/06/easy-cropping-in-gimp/

By: Charles Newland

Charles Newland — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 17:26:39 +0000

Hello,

Thanks for the info on croping. I’ve been trying to switch from Photoshop to GIMP, and this really helps out.

Thanks again,
Charles