Anyone know have a fast way to crop an image?

Rhino Rhino for Windows
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Often I screenshot an image from google search results and paste it into rhino for collaging, drawing, modeling, etc. When I do this I often wish there was a quick “cropping” method that I could use to draw a box over the image and trim the outside of it all in one step.

Right now it’s more like:

  • draw a rectangle
  • select the rectangle
  • run trim
  • click the outside of the image
  • hit enter to end trim
  • lock the image so I don’t accidentally reselect it
  • select the trimming rectangle
  • delete the trimming rectangle

If anyone knows a better way to do this I’d be interested to hear it.

Thanks,
Paul

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Hi @pdfaze

I would recommend a bit shorter way, based on yours steps:

  • draw a rectangle
  • select the rectangle
  • run trim
  • click the outside of the image
  • hit enter to end trim
  • hit delete since rectangle is still selected

If you want it even more faster, you may create a macros and attach it to toolbar’s icon or keyboard shortcut.

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Better than my clunky method for sure…

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Also, instead of screenshotting the search results try right-clicking on the image you want and choose Copy Image.

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Good point. And just hit Ctrl + V in Rhino. This will paste buffered image.

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Thanks Nathan! I didn’t know about that option, which completely eliminates the need to crop in many cases

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Or use some screen capture tool that allows you to window exactly the part of the screen you want then Ctrl+V to paste into Rhino.

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Hi @all,

Windows does have a build in tool to capture cropped areas or the whole screen. For a cropped area, just press Shift + Win Key + S and choose the left icon (cut rectangle):

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then draw a window by holding down the left mouse button. Once you release the mouse the area is copied to the clipboard and you can paste it into Rhino.

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You can use this to get around images stacked over the top of each other partially overlapping and not being able to control draw order of insterted ‘pictures’