Re: [Gimp-user] Removing a vertical strip

[Liam R E Quin <liam holoweb net>]

On Tue, 22 Sep 2015 00:11:12 +0100
Timothy Murphy <gayleard eircom net> wrote:

> I want to remove a vertical strip from a photo,
> and join the remaining two parts together.

Here's one way.

(1) use the rectangle select tool to select the strip to remove and everything to the right of it.

(2) press control-shift-l to "float" the selection (or use select->float)

(3) use the move tool (looks like four arrows moving away, or press "m") and press the left arrow and/or 
shift-left-arrow, or drag the selected area - press mouse, press control, drag, to constrain it to be only 
horizontal and not diagonal.

(4) click outside the selected area (pointer changes to an anchor when outside) to glue the rectangular flap 
back down.

(5) if it's all good, use the crop tool to get rid of the right-hand blank part.

(6) use file->export to make a new PNG or JPEG image (or whatever) saving the result.

Liam

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