Possibilité de déplacer les masques de recadrage avec les touches de direction

[leraymur]

Hello,

When we use the cropping tool in non-automatic mode, it no longer takes into account the limits of the image. In itself, it is not embarrassing and can sometimes even be useful. But for more precision in moving the frame, it could be useful to be able to move it pixel by pixel using the keyboard direction keys… the mouse or trackpad lacks precision in vertical and/or horizontal movements.

[Prem (Win11, Sony a99, PL, FP, VP.)]

@leraymur Don’t forget to vote for yourself. I voted.

[leraymur]

Thank you, I don’t know how this forum works yet.

[Egregius ((Greg) - Windows 11)]

Right now, to do this I have to zoom in first. Then I can see the position of the frame accurately in relation to the edges of the image. And I can move it one pixel at a time using the mouse. I don’t understand how using the keyboard will help with this, since I still have to zoom in to see the crop frame accurately, and then have to decide what I want to move: the whole crop frame or just one side of it. I usually move just one side or one corner at a time, but it sounds like what you’re proposing is to move the whole frame.

[John-M (Melbourne, Australia - Win10)]

When you say; “it no longer takes into account the limits of the image” - do you mean that you believe that it once did (in an earlier version of PL, perhaps) … I cannot recall that (tho, that doesn’t mean it’s not so !)

[leraymur]

I usually choose my cropping formats from the classic formats (4x3, 3x2, 16x10…) and I start from the proposal made by PL that I move or stretch. Most often this displacement is horizontal or vertical, so already aligned by PL on one of the edges of the image. Moving with the arrow keys will keep the horizontal or vertical alignment while the mouse is not precise enough to slide in one of these directions without “slipping”.

[leraymur]

No, I just want to say that it is not possible to constrain resizing to the only area of the image as proposed by automatic cropping. For example, in case of strong distortion correction (use of a very wide angle) it is possible to include black areas by moving the frame and it is difficult to select to the nearest pixel with the mouse.

[Egregius ((Greg) - Windows 11)]

See also these feature requests which we can still vote for:

Crop tool limit to (rotated) picture area

There should be a switch to limit the crop edges to the area of a tilted / rotated image. With rotated images, you currently can extend the crop area beyond the image border and then you get a black triangle shaped area. Although this might be desirable under certain circumstances, I guess most people don’t want to see the black triangles. Automatic crop does not cover all needs: I often want to have a smaller crop area than the maximum area, or to move the maximized crop area off the center. …

Crop tool : constrain rectangle within source image boundaries

When crop tool is used, a new manual placement mode constraining the recteangle to the area occupied by source image pixels. This new mode would disallow moving the target rectangle outside of the image (rendered black in the tool canvas). Existing unconstrained mode would still be retained. This proposal extends the thread cited below so that bounded cropping would work regardless of the reason why the source image is unknown (black) : unrotated original rectangle, rotated source, warped so…

[rrblint (Mark)]

You can always use the new Reshape tool(requires a Viewpoint 4 license) to stretch the black corners out of the frame. It works great, I use this technique quite frequently.