Program which can print a part of an image - any ideas?
I want to be able to select part of an image (a JPEG by default but I could convert it) and print a selected (by marquee?) part of the image. At the moment I can't find any easy way to do this either with Windows programs (I have Adobe Photoshop Elements running in Vmware) or in Linux. It seems such an obvious thing to want to do. -- Chris Green
I want to be able to select part of an image (a JPEG by default but I could convert it) and print a selected (by marquee?) part of the image.
At the moment I can't find any easy way to do this either with Windows programs (I have Adobe Photoshop Elements running in Vmware) or in Linux. It seems such an obvious thing to want to do.
umm ... copy it to a new image, crop it using your favourite image editing tool e.g. GIMP, then print? Peter.
On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 06:50:01PM +0100, samwise wrote:
I want to be able to select part of an image (a JPEG by default but I could convert it) and print a selected (by marquee?) part of the image.
At the moment I can't find any easy way to do this either with Windows programs (I have Adobe Photoshop Elements running in Vmware) or in Linux. It seems such an obvious thing to want to do.
umm ... copy it to a new image, crop it using your favourite image editing tool e.g. GIMP, then print?
I guess that's a way of doing it but it seems rather a long way round to a rather simple requirement. Thanks for the idea though, I'll try it. -- Chris Green
On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 07:01:10PM +0100, Chris G wrote:
On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 06:50:01PM +0100, samwise wrote:
I want to be able to select part of an image (a JPEG by default but I could convert it) and print a selected (by marquee?) part of the image.
At the moment I can't find any easy way to do this either with Windows programs (I have Adobe Photoshop Elements running in Vmware) or in Linux. It seems such an obvious thing to want to do.
umm ... copy it to a new image, crop it using your favourite image editing tool e.g. GIMP, then print?
I guess that's a way of doing it but it seems rather a long way round to a rather simple requirement. Thanks for the idea though, I'll try it.
There is one problem though, I can't work out how to make Gimp actually peform the crop! :-) I can find crop in the menus, I can move the cropping lines on the image and then - zilch. How do you actually make it crop and/or save the cropped image? -- Chris Green
2008/8/11 Chris G <cl@isbd.net>:
There is one problem though, I can't work out how to make Gimp actually peform the crop! :-) I can find crop in the menus, I can move the cropping lines on the image and then - zilch. How do you actually make it crop and/or save the cropped image?
I use the normal select tool, and then Crop To Selection from the Image menu. Tim.
On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 07:38:24PM +0100, Tim Green wrote:
2008/8/11 Chris G <cl@isbd.net>:
There is one problem though, I can't work out how to make Gimp actually peform the crop! :-) I can find crop in the menus, I can move the cropping lines on the image and then - zilch. How do you actually make it crop and/or save the cropped image?
I use the normal select tool, and then Crop To Selection from the Image menu.
I made it in the end, it's actually quite useful for what I want to do as you don't actually have to save and print, you can just print from the cropped image on screen. Thus I can select different parts of my image and print them as required quite quickly. I guess I'm just not quite familiar enough with the Gimp to find it easy to use when I, occasionally, need to use it. -- Chris Green
On Mon, 11 Aug 2008 20:50:28 +0100 Chris G <cl@isbd.net> allegedly wrote:
I guess I'm just not quite familiar enough with the Gimp to find it easy to use when I, occasionally, need to use it.
The Gimp isn't the easiest program to use, unless you you do use it a lot. If you have gnome, then gthumb image editor gives a quick and easy crop/save/print option. Mick --------------------------------------------------------------------- The text file for RFC 854 contains exactly 854 lines. Do you think there is any cosmic significance in this? Douglas E Comer - Internetworking with TCP/IP Volume 1 http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc854.txt ---------------------------------------------------------------------
On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 09:02:05PM +0100, mbm wrote:
On Mon, 11 Aug 2008 20:50:28 +0100 Chris G <cl@isbd.net> allegedly wrote:
I guess I'm just not quite familiar enough with the Gimp to find it easy to use when I, occasionally, need to use it.
The Gimp isn't the easiest program to use, unless you you do use it a lot. If you have gnome, then gthumb image editor gives a quick and easy crop/save/print option.
Exactly - the Gimp is overkill for what I wanted to do. I sort of thought that gthumb was what was opening my JPEG file when I first tried, just a second.... ... ah, no, by default the program that opens JPEG files is "Eye of Gnome". Trying gthumb (which I do have installed) does much of what I want much more straightforwardly, thank you! :-) -- Chris Green
On 11-Aug-08 20:06:53, Chris G wrote:
On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 09:02:05PM +0100, mbm wrote:
On Mon, 11 Aug 2008 20:50:28 +0100 Chris G <cl@isbd.net> allegedly wrote:
I guess I'm just not quite familiar enough with the Gimp to find it easy to use when I, occasionally, need to use it.
The Gimp isn't the easiest program to use, unless you you do use it a lot. If you have gnome, then gthumb image editor gives a quick and easy crop/save/print option.
Exactly - the Gimp is overkill for what I wanted to do.
I sort of thought that gthumb was what was opening my JPEG file when I first tried, just a second....
... ah, no, by default the program that opens JPEG files is "Eye of Gnome".
Trying gthumb (which I do have installed) does much of what I want much more straightforwardly, thank you! :-)
You probably also have ImageMagick installed (which is a suite of programs). I like this for most basic (and many not so basic) image manipulations. One of the programs is 'display' (which does more than it says on the box). 1: $> display myimage.jpg 2: left-click on image to get the main menu window. 3: click 'Transform' -> 'Crop' 4: Select the region (starting with top left-hand corner) by mouse drag. 5: When you release the mouse, you will have the selected region outlined, and a new sub-menu. Click 'Crop'. 6: Then you get the main menu again. Under 'File' you get a choice of things to do next with the cropped image (including 'Print'). If, during 4, you get it wrong, then at 5 click 'Dismiss' and start again. Very straightforward! Ted. -------------------------------------------------------------------- E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <Ted.Harding@manchester.ac.uk> Fax-to-email: +44 (0)870 094 0861 Date: 11-Aug-08 Time: 21:37:39 ------------------------------ XFMail ------------------------------
On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 09:37:42PM +0100, Ted Harding wrote:
Trying gthumb (which I do have installed) does much of what I want much more straightforwardly, thank you! :-)
You probably also have ImageMagick installed (which is a suite of programs). I like this for most basic (and many not so basic) image manipulations.
One of the programs is 'display' (which does more than it says on the box).
1: $> display myimage.jpg
2: left-click on image to get the main menu window.
3: click 'Transform' -> 'Crop'
4: Select the region (starting with top left-hand corner) by mouse drag.
5: When you release the mouse, you will have the selected region outlined, and a new sub-menu. Click 'Crop'.
6: Then you get the main menu again. Under 'File' you get a choice of things to do next with the cropped image (including 'Print').
If, during 4, you get it wrong, then at 5 click 'Dismiss' and start again.
Very straightforward!
Yes, I like it, thanks! -- Chris Green
There is one problem though, I can't work out how to make Gimp actually peform the crop! :-) I can find crop in the menus, I can move the cropping lines on the image and then - zilch. How do you actually make it crop and/or save the cropped image?
http://docs.gimp.org/en/gimp-tutorial-quickie-crop.html Peter.
On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 07:41:50PM +0100, samwise wrote:
There is one problem though, I can't work out how to make Gimp actually peform the crop! :-) I can find crop in the menus, I can move the cropping lines on the image and then - zilch. How do you actually make it crop and/or save the cropped image?
That's where I started from, it doesn't tell you the vital bit of information, that you have to hit CR at the end when you've selected what you want to leave after cropping. I was just sat looking at my image with the crop marks wondering how I told it to actually *do* the crop. It's in the main help where I eventually found the magic necessity - "To validate cropping, click inside the crop rectangle or press the Enter key." Anyway I'm there now, thanks all. -- Chris Green
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