Hi! I'm having a bit of a headache with the crop tool.
When you crop with a horizontal fixed ratio (e.g. 3:2) and then rotate your image, if you try cropping the image again it'll just weirdly crop out the top and bottom at 3:2 again in the middle of the image, instead of just adjusting the previous crop. That makes cropping really hard, especially when cropping film scans, when one might have tons of photos that initially have the wrong orientation. Ratios should really be orientation aware.
And after you crop to something, the default behaviour should be to allow you to edit it, instead of completely losing the previous crop.
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2024-06-09 20:46:29
2024-06-09 22:36:55
What if the first thing you do is rotate then crop ? Alternatively rotate, then leave the crop tool by clicking its button, then go back in it for the crop ? Does that solve your issue. Would not take longer, only have you do things in a particular order that's all.
2024-06-10 04:52:50
Unfortunately that won't solve it. I thought of mentioning that on my previous comment but left it out.
If you rotate and crop to say 2:3, for the next image you'll have to select 3:2 again if it happens to be horizontal. After that, if you go back to the previous image (first image) an try to edit the previous 2:3 crop it'll immediately crop it to 3:2 (you selected it before in the second image) and ruin the previous crop.
The only way I could find to mitigate the issue in that scenario is rotating it back to horizontal before editing a crop, edit the crop, and then rotate it to vertical again.
2024-06-10 13:30:19
I see what you mean, you mean when you change image rather than the same image. Well I think that is just the way it is. Maybe in your workflow you tend to crop all images the same way and it would be beneficial for the tool to adapt to the image. The auto-crop might do that. But in general all image is different and some people will crop based on the image content. There is probably not a way that work for everybody.