[Digikam-users] Manual crop after rotation does not crop to selected area

[Gilles Caulier]

This problem is listed to TODO list planed by team this Week end at
Berlin reunion :

https://sprints.kde.org/sprint/248

https://techbase.kde.org/Projects/Digikam/CodingSprint2014

Gilles Caulier

2014-11-12 9:24 GMT+01:00 Peter Albrecht <peter at crazymonkeys.de>:
> Hi,
>
> maybe as another kind of workaround:
>
> Have you tried tried
>     Transform -> Aspect Ratio Crop...
>
> If you set "Aspect ratio: None" you can set the croping area
> like with the area select tool. If you use keyboard
> shortcuts to open this tool, it is very handy.
>
> This way you avoid save and reopen, which might take some
> time and theoretically means a bit quality loss (if you save
> to JPG).
>
> I'm still at digiKam 4.2.0. So I can't really confirm this
> as working workaround, but just to share the idea.
>
> Regards,
>         Peter Albrecht
>
> On 12.11.2014 08:27, Marie-Noëlle Augendre wrote:
>> I have this problem too (I usually don't edit photos in Digikam, but I was
>> working on scanned sketches that need to be straightened/cropped).
>> What I ended up was:
>>  - rotate then save,
>>  - re-open the picture in edit mode, then crop.
>> That seems to work all the time.
>>
>> Marie-Noëlle
>>
>> 2014-11-12 6:29 GMT+01:00 Anders Stedtlund <falolaf at gmail.com>:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> If I do a rotation of an image e.g. to straighten up the horizon. Then
>>> do a manual selection in the image and then do a crop to selection.
>>> The final image is not the area that I selected. It usually contains a
>>> bigger area then the selected.
>>>
>>> Anyone else seen this?
>>>
>>> digiKam 4.4.0
>>> openSUSE 13.2
>>>
>>> /Anders
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>>
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