How to crop an image?

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Hi,

I am attempting to crop images in Directory Opus...the help seems to refer to this feature....

"The Edit menu also has a Crop command which can be used to crop the image to the currently selected area."

However when I select an area of an image in Opus and go the Edit menu I only get the options.....

Edit
Undo
Cut
Copy
Paste
Copy Filenames
Select All
Select
Invert Selection

There is no reference to crop.

I've also tried right clicking on the picture...and also see no reference to crop.

Is it possible to crop photos with Opus? Am I looking in the wrong spot?

Thanks.

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The edit menu in the image viewer, not the lister.

(I don't think you can crop using the viewer pane; you have to use the separate viewer window that you normally get after double-clicking an image.)

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Having said that, you can crop images via the viewer pane in another way:

  1. Select part of the image (how you do that depends on your Viewer preferences)

  2. Right-click in the viewer and choose Copy

  3. Activate the main file display and Ctrl-V paste.

You'll then get a new Clipboard Image.bmp of the area you copied. You can convert that to another format if you like using Opus. (The Images toolbar has buttons for converting the selected file(s).)

(If you get Clipboard Image.png or .gif instead you must have Opus configured to paste in those formats rather than BMP. I think BMP is the default.)

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Thanks for the tips....my only problem is now trying to get the proper Image Viewer to appear...when I double click an image it opens in Windows Picture and Fax Viewer (on XP)...which has no edit menus etc...it simply shows the picture..and has similar controls down the bottom such as zoom and rotate...but no edit menu etc.

Is this a Vista only feature? Am I missing a setting somewhere?

I've tried right click..open with....but can't see any Opus Image Viewer listed....how do I get Opus to use the Opus Image Viewer?

Thanks!

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Try this:

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That was the secret...works well...thanks for taking the time to post!

  • Matt