Crop¶

The crop tool allows you to crop, resize, rotate, and flip a drawing.

It is located in the Main toolbar.

Crop tool

Here's a video example of using the crop tool along with its customization in Preferences panel.

At Launch¶

When launched, a frame appears in the main view (and in the Secondary view if it is active).

Crop view

The frame size is indicated both in the Quick settings bar and in the Tool parameters panel.

Quick settings bar

Crop quick parameter

Tool parameter panel

Crop tool parameter

Crop interactions in view¶

Resize¶

By grabbing an edge of the frame, you can resize the width or the height of your document.

Crop scale

Resize uniformly¶

By taking a corner, you can resize with the current ratio.

Crop scale ratio small Crop scale ratio large

Move¶

Being in the center allows you to move it.

Crop move

Rotate¶

Being outside allows you to orient it differently.

Crop rotate

In the tool parameter panel¶

At the top left, by clicking on the Crop icon, there is the following menu.

Crop menu

Crop menu	Description
Restore	Restores the document to its initial size.
Unit/resolution	Displays the values of the crop frame.
Handles/Frame	Goes to preferences to customize the crop display.
Help	Redirects to tool documentation.

Crop preview¶

Then the crop preview area, which is interactive too, like in view.

Crop preview

Crop actions¶

Next, the restore, cancel, or apply buttons.

Crop apply

Action	Description
Restore	Restores the document to its initial size.
Cancel	Exits the crop tool without applying changes
Apply	Exits the crop tool applying the modifications.

Adjustment area¶

Finally, the various adjustment area, with values or buttons for quicker adjustments.

Crop apply

Ratio¶

Crop ratio

For the moment ratio are : Free, Original ratio, 1x1, 1x2, 4x3, 16x9, 16x10, A4 paper.

Fit allows readjusting the frame based on the width or height of the drawing, while preserving the previously defined ratio.

Size¶

Crop size

Size elements	Description
	If the link icon is active, the ratio will be maintained. So, if one value is entered, the other will be calculated automatically.
	If the link icon is not active, then width or height value can be entered independently.
W	Width value
H	Height value
	Flip horizontally
	Flip vertically

Note

To flip a drawing, it's a reversed value. For example, if my drawing is 2000px wide, I would enter the value -2000px to flip it. But for a quicker way, there are these buttons seen above.

Position¶

Crop position

The x and y coordinates of the frame can be directly entered here.

The square divided into 9 parts represents the canvas and determines current coordinates (top-left, center of the drawing, bottom-right, etc.). The pivot point and the frame will automatically snap to these coordinates.

Rotation¶

Crop rotation

Rotation elements	Description
	Angle value
	Snap angle On/Off and a value which provides a constraint for rotation
	90° counter clockwise rotation
	90° clockwise rotation
	180° rotation
	Reset rotation

Customize crop display¶

To customize the display of the crop (frame, handles, ...), go to Preferences, specifically in the Helpers section.