Crop to smallest enclosing rectangle?

[personage]

Upon using the Crop to Selection action on selections created with the magic wand tool, anything not in the original selection outline but otherwise in the resulting canvas is deleted. Is there a way to crop to the selection without deleting any of the content in the resulting canvas?

[Tactilis]

53 minutes ago, personage said:

Is there a way to crop to the selection without deleting any of the content in the resulting canvas?

I'm puzzled as to why do you need to use the Magic Wand then?  Why not simply make a Rectangular selection that encloses the area you want and crop to that?

[personage]

3 hours ago, Tactilis said:

I'm puzzled as to why do you need to use the Magic Wand then?  Why not simply make a Rectangular selection that encloses the area you want and crop to that?

In Photoshop, it's handy for cropping out panels of comics and elements of webpages. If I want to approach pixel-perfect accuracy with paint.net's toolset, I need to zoom in with the rectangular selection tool and manually drag out the corners, which takes longer.

[MJW]

Though I'm not completely sure what you want to do, I made a plugin with the mellifluous name "Unselected Rectangle Keeper" that may perhaps help.

 

 

[BoltBait]

Let's say you start with an image.  You select something with the magic wand:

Next, press the Crop button  and are left with something like this...

 

 

Finally, use Adjustments > Transparency and make the image full opaque:

 

 

Problem solved.

 

 

[personage]

6 hours ago, BoltBait said:

Let's say you start with an image.  You select something with the magic wand:

Next, press the Crop button  and are left with something like this...

 

 

Finally, use Adjustments > Transparency and make the image full opaque:

 

 

Problem solved.

 

 

That works well. Thank you.

[personage]

8 hours ago, MJW said:

Though I'm not completely sure what you want to do, I made a plugin with the mellifluous name "Unselected Rectangle Keeper" that may perhaps help.

 

 

I had tried using your plugin, but it doesn't seem to work in my version of paint.net (5.0.13).

[MJW]

4 hours ago, personage said:

I had tried using your plugin, but it doesn't seem to work in my version of paint.net (5.0.13).

 

Hmm. I just tried it in 5.0.13, and it worked for me. Are you sure you used it correctly? It's not the most intuitive plugin. You need to select the background with the Magic Wand, then run the plugin. It only erases the area outside the bounding box of foreground object, it doesn't crop to it, since at least at the time it was written, plugins couldn't crop (I think that's still the case).

[personage]

On 8/15/2024 at 11:06 AM, MJW said:

 

Hmm. I just tried it in 5.0.13, and it worked for me. Are you sure you used it correctly? It's not the most intuitive plugin. You need to select the background with the Magic Wand, then run the plugin. It only erases the area outside the bounding box of foreground object, it doesn't crop to it, since at least at the time it was written, plugins couldn't crop (I think that's still the case).

I was able to get it to work after some experimenting. Thank you for the plugin.