How To Animate Gimp

this is a quick way to crop an image using gimp. first of all my image is fairly small so i can either go down to the status bar and set the view to 200% just change that dropdown. or i can use the menu

How To Animate Gimp, and use view/zoom/200% or, if you look here, on the zoom you can see the hot key and i can hit any of these numbers to go to 100%, 200%, 300, 400, 500 and on.

i’ll work at 200% (hits the 2) it’s good to know the three ways you can change the zoom value of the view. i’m going to use the rectangle select tool. what i want to do is just get a chunk of this photo. i want to get the file size as small as i can so i’m going to click on the rectangle tool and if you double-click on the tool gimp will display the option panel for that tool. i usually put my option panels over here on the right. now, i’ll open up the detailed tool option panel a little bit. you can see that the size of the image

i’m going to select the image. i want the hawk in the upper corner i can move this around. i can also shrink the selection or grow it if i want using the grab bars. or, i can come over here (in the tools option panel) and i can type in the size of window that i want. always remember that when you input something in gimp to hit tab to make that number stick. so, there’s my selection.... let me move it over a little bit. i want that bird in the upper left corner i hit enter to do the selection.

if i go up to image/crop to selection it is going to automatically crop the canvas and the image right to that bird there. then i’ll do a ctrl s to save it. and that is going to be my new image. notice that an image is 135 pixels by 97 pixels. i’m going to write that down and use it for my other images so they are all consistent. for each image that i have the bird i’ll be moving the bird down on the diagonal towards the lower right corner.