Re: Another Cropping Question!

EW wrote:

> GIMP is great, but......... the cropping function is not very customer-
> friendly.  Here's the question:
> I open an image, select the "ellipse selection tool" and mouse out  an
> oval part of the image.  Now I have the original image with an oval
> dotted area of the image that I want to keep.  How do I just keep and
> save ONLY the oval area selected by the ellipse selection tool??  This
> should be easy, but I can't figure it out!
> Please comment.  Thanks.
> EW

Using dropdown menus and mouse

Image -> Crop to selection -> File -> Save

or if you want to keep the original image as well

Edit -> Copy -> Paste -> Paste as a new image -> File -> Save

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gautam