Default Cropping

[Roedy]

I do a huge amount of mindless image cropping -- book covers from Amazon.com. They always come with a white bar down each side. It would be nice if when I clicked CROP the rectangle were accuartely posititioned so all I had to do was double click. As it is, it takes a fair bit of fiddling to get it bang on starting from the idiotic default setting. The default seems to be the correct setting, then randomly jiggled to make it wrong.

If what I say makes no sense, try cropping a few bookcover images from Amazon.com. All should come clear.

There is also a bug, probably disguising itself as a feature, that when I get the position of the crop rectangle almost right, it suddenly jumps back to the old position. That is so infuriating.

[LeviFiction]

I just tried it and the crop rectangle always positions itself in the same location for me. The book cover, of course, is of a different size or shape some times so that puts it slightly off. But otherwise the starting point and size are exactly the same just as it should be.

I have never experienced that bug but it's not a feature.

[LindaSue]

You would have loved using PSP7 and the versions prior to that for cropping. You could crop your first image and then just double-click the crop tool button to bring up the Crop Area dialog. It would remember your last settings so all you had to do was click OK to apply then repeat to get the same selection over and over.

[Radim]

For (correcting small rotation) and cropping a lot of images I use ScanTaylor - http://scantailor.sourceforge.net/?q=en/node/3

When I scanned my paper books it takes 10 times less time to do work against the same in PSP X3/X4. So try it, will see difference...

[teknisyan]

Like what Levi mention the crop tool will keep the last known setting of the last crop that you made and carry-it-over to the next image that you will be cropping. Unless of course the next image is too small of the previous crop settings.

[brucet]

OK another crop issue.

I was playing around with the crop tool and now I can't get back to where it acts 'normal'!!!!! I've used it for years and this has me baffled.

I have 3 layers. Background(copy of layer 1)/Layer 1/Layer 2.
With layer 2 active I do a crop. Freehand most often.
If for any reason I don't like the results I click the undo arrow or go to Edit/Undo. Now for whatever reason my top layer dissapears and I get a copy of the layer 1. The original layer 2 has gone. Zap. On the moon or mar. But it's gone. What ever I do I can't get my Layer 2 back. I have to close the file and start over.

Is there away of reseting just the Crop feature back to the way Corel delivered it to me?

Thanks.

[Roedy]

If what I say makes no sense, try cropping a few bookcover images from Amazon.com. All should come clear.

The width of the bars to be cropped off are different for every book. I suspect though that most Amazon book images all start out the same size. The auto-crop I am after would have to analyse edges/colours, not simply remember the position of the crop from the previous image. It would not have to be too clever. I think most of the time the bars to be chopped are pure white. I have thought of writing my own software to do the chopping.