It is getting more and more common for me not to have Photoshop at work. If I just want to send someone a screengrab the Paint app built into Windows 10 tends to work just fine honestly. I almost never edit images professionally anymore. So much of modern design is CSS styling NOT dependent on background images. (flat and simple stuff) Anyways, sometimes to do want to know exactly how wide or tall something in a screengrab is and that is the one time I will miss Photoshop wherein things are easy to crop. I never warmed up to GIMP, but today I figured out how to crop stuff in it. (version 2.8)
- Open a file just like you would in Photoshop.
- Use the magnifying glass (Zoom Tool) to zoom in with clicks or zoom out while holding Ctrl and clicking and ultimate use the X-Acto knife (Crop Tool) to draw out a rectangular region for cropping. Like in Photoshop, if you are zoomed way in, the cropping will restrain itself to representations of enlarged pixels and not ambiguously not line up with pixel borders.
- Click inside a box you drag out to make the crop our outside the box to abort the crop.
- After the crop you will see by the file name at the top of the file window the size (in pixels) of the image.
- If you want to save the file you have to do an Export As to sidestep the GIMP XCF format. You cannot just save.
- After you have saved a file, you may always right-click on a file in Windowsland and pick Properties and then go the Details tab to see the size in pixels of any file that is an image.
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