xenon2000

Maybe to you. But, seriously, I could care less about this feature. I'm not trying to be mean, I'm just trying to give you a little perspective. Fair enough. But curious... what do you use a graphic editing program for 99% of the time that you don't need control of cropping? With all the Web work, monitor display work such as wallpapers, and all the print work. All require specific ratios. So I am curious what type of graphics work you do that you don't use ratio controlled cropping. Again, fair enough that my original comment was from my perspective and that I made a large assumption on what are common graphics workflows. I did not search for any statistics on the subject and I understand that my simple statement is out of perspective without that research.

Also, please do not state that a feature is "easy". That's a pet peeve of mine. There is much more involved in adding a feature than just hacking out some code in an hour. I didn't see it in the locked Feature Request list. If there is another list, I didn't see it. Sorry about using the term "easy", maybe that pet peeve should be at the top of your Requested Features list in bold. LOL, I did not know that would annoy any programmer. Easy is a relative term, especially in the world of programming. But come on, you have to admit, a ratio and fixed selection tool would be much easier than a magnetic lasso and polygon selection tool. But seriously, it's all relative. I didn't mean to imply that is was easy in an absolute term and that anyone could do it. Just saying that with all the app does now, it's all relative. Thanks for all the work by the way. I think it's off to a great start. It's just this particular feature that prevents me from using it. But I will try every update as they happen.

The biggest shocker here, is that this fuctiontion is not on the Feature Request list. This is a HUGE missing feature. And an easy one to add as well. Polygon selection is much easier than Magnetic lasso, but still more of a programming challenge than ratio and fixed size selection tool. Man, I was really hoping that Paint.net had ratio selection. Working with digital pictures, this is about the biggest requirement. And so that means that if I have to use another tool to do ALL my cropping, because freehand cropping is almost 99% useless for just about everything. Web work, images for wallpapers, photos for standard print sizes, document images for standard paper size, etc.... all require ratio or fixed sizes. Freehand cropping is worthless 99% of the time. So if I need to use another imaging tool for cropping, I may as well use that other tool for everything else. Just thought it would be cool to use a freeware tool instead.