Re: Another Cropping Question!

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Gautam Majumdar <gmajumdar@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote: 

>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

     I believe neither of those will work for other than a
rectangular selection.  As near as I can tell, all layers and
images are rectangular and can't be cropped to other shapes.
(Before responding, earlier, I had tried your first technique.)

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