JS Paint – A web-based MS Paint remake

Re:JS Paint – A web-based MS Paint remake by TeMPOraL on Thursday January 18, 2018 @12:48AM (#16174987)

You could do cropping in Paint since at least the Win95 version. The method was the same I use with Paint to this very day: a combination of canvas resize handles and moving the image contents. Basically, after pasting the picture, I would use the selection that is automatically activated (if you lose it, CTRL+A to select all) to crop out top and left parts of the image, by positioning the top-left corner of what I care about at the top-left corner of the canvas. I would then use the bottom-right "resize canvas" handle to crop out the rest.

"That's how Dad did it, that's how America does it, and it's worked out pretty well so far."

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Re:JS Paint – A web-based MS Paint remake by gvx on Thursday January 18, 2018 @04:17AM (#16175758)

I'd select the section I'd want to crop, copy it, create a new image, resize it to 1x1 or something else small, then paste. The canvas would automatically resize to fit the pasted selection. It sounds a bit more involved than your version, but for me it worked.

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Re:JS Paint – A web-based MS Paint remake by TeMPOraL on Thursday January 18, 2018 @04:29AM (#16175809)

Yeah, I noticed this mechanism (probably even used it a few times), but I eventually gravitated towards something with less clicking.

I do that in Paint.NET a lot, though. I select the part of the image I'm interested in, and then in two keyboard presses (CTRL+C, ALT+CTRL+V, AFAIR) I copy it and "paste into new image".

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