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The point of this thread was to find a better way in general to expand, I know the regular expand works fine, but it just seems like too much.

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Why not Image > Resize (Ctrl + R), select "By Percentage" and type in 200%?

 

In this instance, "Cropping" means to cut something off (the original).  Having the crop action actually enlarge something is counter-intuitive IMHO.

 

Of course the other option is to make your selection and then activate the Move tool  Click and drag the corner nubs to expand/shrink  the selection.  Hold Shift while dragging to keep the height/width ratio the same.

I must have not clearly enough given my explanation. i just believe that instead of cropping to selection, imagine.... Change size to selection.

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Section bigger than the image? I think that happens on few occasions such as when you paste a huge image that is bigger than the canvas size in which you are prompted if you want PDN to adjust the canvas size for you. Another is if you move the selection's resizing handles with the Move selection tool...

 

External workspace? You mean the gray space beyond the canvas edges? I think there are good sides to that and somebody suggested that before.

 

Well, i know how to make the image bigger

But let's say that you have an image and you want to expand it to twice it's size.

You would just make the selection bigger and click "crop to selection." This would make it expand, but only because the selection is bigger.

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Maybe along with this you could add an external workspace (in the grey area)

[paint.net 4.0.4 is now available]

The Magic wand works SO much better.

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I have been using PDN for about three years now and i think that could be easier to re-size the work field. Maybe when you click "crop to selection", if the selection if bigger than the image, it would expand to that size. I think it is too difficult to figure out the correct pixel size to change the image size to.