For some reason in Gimp 2.4 they managed to break the one thing I do most often. I mean.. it isn’t really broken per se - it just went from something that took 5 seconds to something that now takes probably 15 seconds.
Basically.. whenever I select a rectangular region and make it a new image (which is something I do all the time when I cut up a design), I add some guides and then use the rectangular select tool to select the region, then hit ctrl-c to copy it it, then ctrl-n to make a new image. The new image used to automatically be the same size as the selection. So I would just paste it and save. Now for some reason the selection is almost oval or maybe a fat cross. And it has these sub-selection areas for the corners that I have no idea why I would want them (by default, anyway) and when you create the new image it isn’t the same size as the selection any more so I have to fill in the size manually.
I don’t know what “common case” they decided to optimize for..
I looked through the settings and preferences and I can’t find a way to change the behavior. I thought that maybe they dropped the automatic image size thing in favor of some other new command that copies your selection to a new image, but I can’t find anything.
Am I somehow the only person affected by this?
UPDATE: found something in the gimp user archives.
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