Hey guys, I found a workaround. I just use the rectangle select tool, click hide selection and layer boundary to remove distractions from the edges, and use crop to selection. I assigned a shortcut to this function, because I use that and undo consecutively. When I undo, all I have to do is click within the original selection, even though I can't see any lines, and the adjustable selection square re-appears as it used to be. It's a little slower, but perfect for those times when I have to fit a hard-to-crop picture into a certain standard ratio.
On Friday, June 5, 2015 12:41 AM, Liam R. E. Quin <liam@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Wed, 2015-06-03 at 21:09 +0200, Ofnuts wrote:
> On 02/06/15 17:50, Burnell West wrote:
> > > On Jun 1, 2015, at 11:07 PM, Brad Gibson <bradgibson999@xxxxxxxxx
> > > > wrote:
> > >
> > > It would be great if I could choose to see pure black around
> > > whatever I'm cropping,
[...]
> > Simply add a black layer and put it behind the image
This doesn't work... it turns grey when you draw the crop tool
rectangle.
> >
>
> Or Edit>Preferences>Display>Transparency>Check style>Black only
Nether does this. It has no effect on the crop tool preview at all.
I had a look at editing the source to change the way the reduced-
contrast area around the cropping rectangle is drawn -- a colour
swatch on tool options for the crop tool would not be out of line, nor
even an opacity slider, as on e.g. the Rotate tool. I found the place
(I think) where the cairo outer rectangle is made, so maybe it's a
case of adding a fill to that, and passing the colour (and opacity?)
as arguments from the crop tool preview function, I'm not sure.
I've often wished for a way for Undo to go back to the exact state
just before the operation, including e.g. the uncommitted selection
that you could edit, the crop ectangle, the perspective grid. It would
be clean-warm-dry-black-sock awesome.
Liam
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