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

[Anders Stedtlund]

Hi Gilles,

I'm very glad to hear that!

(BTW: Couldn't find time to meet up in Berlin...)

/Anders

2014-11-12 11:30 GMT+01:00 Gilles Caulier <caulier.gilles at gmail.com>:
> 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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