cropping tutorial for pinta (for newbies)

[Menard]

I ve still never seen a crop tool for Linux that work .... and I believe I tried all and I kept finally Pix but I am on Linux since 2017 and still start Windows when I want to crop pictures

A real crop tool doesn't need neither a tutorial nor a topic on a forum, in the theory

For me the crop tool and de the resizing tool are so current and simple tools that they must be integrated in a viewer that works, but I use Pix for this ... but it works neither as a correct crop tool, nor to visualize pictures one by one and quick enough ... so ...

[Reddog1]

I'm definitely no expert, but that only happens when I change the picture format (from .png to .jpg, for example). It's a carryover from the old Imagemagik that has been deprecated. When a modified pic was saved, Imagemagik always asked for an image quality entry, which makes sense if the mime-type is being converted to another. If the mime-type isn't changed the pop-up won't appear in Pinta. When it shows, I suggest you put it to '100' and move on.

I like Pinta because it's easier to use than Gimp, which has too steep a learning curve for a casual user such as myself. I crop, change image sizes, etc. and sometimes change formats and it just works with a minimum of fuss.

[all41]

Cropping is simple using Pix. Open image in Pix, click the pencil icon to display editing options,
click the crop button, size and position the rectangle and press the Crop button again--done.
Most editors save or export in the same format as the image. If you change the extension from .png to .jpg
in the save box you will be able to adjust the quality slider all the way to 100 if quality is more important
than file size. A 1.3MB .png creates a 75KB .jpg after a 50% crop and saved with 85% jpg range (quality setting).

[Reddog1]

when i do the screenshot, does it capture it in .png?

If you are taking the screenshot with Mint, using the 'Print Screen' key, yes, the default is .png. Some screenshot programs give the option of file type, but even then, the default is .png--at least the ones I've used.

[Menard]

Cropping is simple using Pix. Open image in Pix, click the pencil icon to display editing options,
click the crop button, size and position the rectangle and press the Crop button again--done.
Most editors save or export in the same format as the image. If you change the extension from .png to .jpg
in the save box you will be able to adjust the quality slider all the way to 100 if quality is more important
than file size. A 1.3MB .png creates a 75KB .jpg after a 50% crop and saved with 85% jpg range (quality setting).
pixcrop.jpg

It is simple if you never touched the second part of the rules, called Proportions or ratio, rules or what, just between Selections and Options

[iliketrains]

if a pro is reading this, when i go to save an image in pinta, it asks me a jpg range to save it as , default is 85,,how do i set it to 100, and more importantly how do i turn this off, i don't want to be prompted each time ya know.

Pro ? No, I'm more an inkscape user.
Unlike Pix, Pinta has no obvious way to save these type of preferences. Even in Pix it may not be possible to suppress the nag pop-up(?)
Pinta has it's warts but at least it doesn't overwhelm casual users (looking at you Gimp)

edit/ It turns out Pinta remembers the last setting. Drag the slider to 100% and it will remember that setting, at least how it works here.

[all41]

The downside for me is Pinta's dependency list.
All those mono runtimes and libraries