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[feature-request] crop support

Open Ulexus opened this issue 5 years ago • 9 comments

While you can preselect with slurp, there are situations where more refinement is useful. A cropping tool would be most handy.

Ulexus avatar Sep 03 '20 17:09 Ulexus

Just to add to what @Ulexus said, sometimes you want to capture something that requires a mouse hover, and thus using slurp is not viable, requiring you to capture the entire screen. Being able to capture first and crop later would be great (like what flameshot does). Today I have to resort to GIMP for this quite often.

cauebs avatar May 25 '21 17:05 cauebs

I'd particularly like to see an "auto crop" tool, since doing a preselection isn't precise. I can do a PR if you're interested.

foonathan avatar Jun 05 '23 12:06 foonathan

I found a workaround if you use grim and slurp. You can take a full screenshot, when swappy opens, make a screenshot of swappy window. That way you'll have two instances of swappy and second one will have cropped image.

woojiq avatar Aug 14 '23 17:08 woojiq

I found a workaround if you use grim and slurp. You can take a full screenshot, when swappy opens, make a screenshot of swappy window. That way you'll have two instances of swappy and second one will have cropped image.

Yeah I've been doing this too, but it does sacrifice some resolution on the ultimate image. I think a crop feature in swappy would still be preferable.

matthewarmand avatar Aug 21 '23 14:08 matthewarmand

This feature is really nifty for any annotation tool.

adonespitogo avatar Sep 20 '23 22:09 adonespitogo

I agree, I'm hopping to get back to it at some point but my time on the project is currently very limited due to family reasons. It will come out at some point.

jtheoof avatar Sep 22 '23 13:09 jtheoof

I really need this feature too. Cropping is the the most common operation I perform on screenshots. I'm gonna try implementing it and send you a pull request if I succeed.

matheusmoreira avatar Apr 01 '24 20:04 matheusmoreira