Re: Quick cropping with GIMP, like in XV

Ignoramus23731 wrote:

> On 2008-05-30, Joost Diepenmaat <joost@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> Ignoramus23731 <ignoramus23731@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> writes:
>>
>>> I use XV for image editing, since 90% of time all I need to do is
>>> quick crop and resize. XV has nice keyboard shortcuts.
>>  [ ... ]
>>> What I want to avoid is using menus.
>>>
>>> So. How do I quickly crop and resize with GIMP using keyboard
shortcuts?
>>
>> My relatively current gimp (2.4.5) does this like: press ****ft+C (to
>> select the crop tool) -> select rectangle with the mouse -> press
>> enter. I believe 2.2 and earlier do not crop on enter.
>>
> 
> Great!
> 
> I have 2.4.5 at home, so I am cool. The crop function also resizes the
> image, is that correct?
> 
Yes.  The image is resized to the size of the selected (cropped) area.