Bruce

Rick's suggestion is really just about resizing the image and changing the canvas size. Some of the steps I outlined would still have to be followed to achieve the results i'm looking for. Oddly, there's very few pieces of software that are able to do this. Aside from Photoshop the only application I've found with this functionality is the web based photo editor Picnik - http://www.picnik.com - it achieves the same thing via a check box on the crop tool settings marked "Scale photo". I actually thought it was quite interesting that this function was included in Picnik as the application is specifically designed as an editor for photos contained within various web based services - unfortunately a web app is not much use to me. I do wonder however if there's something about this function that makes it's usefulness more apparent to those who spend a lot of time cropping photos for use on the web... If this is the case then I would think it's a particularly useful feature for PDN to incorporate as I suspect a lot of PDN users are just looking for a free editor for quickly editing photos before posting them online. Another thing that occurs to me about this function is that it probably requires the presence of a specific "crop" tool in order to implement. Something which both PS and Picnik have but PDN does not. I can actually see why it doesn't make sense to incorporate one if you don't have this function as it would end up being very similar to the selection tool (except with the double click to crop). Anyway, I'd urge you to take a few mins and have a look at Picnik as maybe it will help you understand why I feel this is such an important tool to have. When I read the other thread I thought that maybe the reason it was going round in circles was really just a communication problem and that many people were not understanding how this was any different to what was currently available. I'm now pretty sure you must understand understand how what i'm asking for is different from what is currently available, and that the real issue is that many people just don't see how extremely useful this (and therefore do not believe that it merits the additional development work required to implement it). In many respects this is actually a usability feature and I can see why it might be felt that development time is better spent on features that allow you to achieve things which are currently just not possible with the application. I wish I could be more persuasive as really can't overestimate just how useful this would be. Thanks for your time though.

This is really just a repeat of an old feature request topic that has now been locked (and presumably rejected). See here: viewtopic.php?f=12&t=28270 I can't overestimate just how useful this feature is if you have to crop a lot of images for the web. From reading the previous thread it seems like there is some confusion and misunderstanding about what exactly is being asked for. So I'll try to explain it again. Just for reference, here's a screen grab from Photoshop CS3 This function is part of the crop tool. What it lets you do is define the exact dimensions of cropped image before making a selection. It's important to note here that the pixel size of the selection box which you draw is not constrained, however the apsect ratio is, so that the cropped image always conforms to your specified dimensions. This is very different from a fixed size selection box. A fixed size selection gives you no flexibility over the portion of the image contained in the cropped version because there is a 1 to 1 mapping between the pixel size of your selection box and the pixel density of the image. Imagine you have a photo of a group of people and you just want to crop out a face, and also, you want to crop the photo to be exactly 300px by 220px for a website. As things currently stand, this is how you would achieve this function in Paint.net: 1. Use the selection tool in normal mode to select the part of the image you want 2. Crop to selection 3. Resize to the desired width (because all photos on your website have to be 300px wide) 4. Use the fixed size selection using a width of 300px and a height of 220px to select the vertical portion of the image you want to keep 5. Crop to selection There's also an alternate way to do this: 1. Define a fixed ratio of 300x220 2. Crop to selection 3. Resize "by absolute size" and set the pixel width to 300px. The height should automatically adjust to 220px (although i have a hunch you might sometimes get a rounding error here and it could be out by a few pixels - not absolutely sure about this). You now have the desired portion of the image cropped to your required size. Using the crop to size function in Photoshop all of these steps are condensed in to 1 step. If you have a lot photos to crop this function is a massive time saver (and it gives you more creative control with less trial and error involved). I really like Paint.net, but I'm a web designer for a magazine who's been using Photoshop for over 10 years this is the feature that I really, really miss. If you have to quickly crop 50 images it's a lifesaver. Please, please implement this. Thanks (Gimp can't do it either btw!)