In Gimp, how can I *throw away* outside transparent pixels?

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In Photshop, if I copy a portion of an image with surrounding transparent pixels and paste it into a new canvas, it will have the outside transparent pixels removed, resulting in a tight canvas containing only the outer bounding box.

Can I do the same thing in Gimp?

alex

Posted 2011-07-06T01:29:20.913

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Answers

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Use the menus: Image> Autocrop Image

piece of cake.

Ele Munjeli

Posted 2011-07-06T01:29:20.913

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I believe this is now: Image > Fit Canvas to Layers for Gimp 2.10.8. – Hans Vonn – 2019-01-25T15:37:19.573

Image --> Crop to content now – indofraiser – 2019-08-16T12:30:31.937

Wow, can't believe I didn't find that. And I did have a decent dig in the menus. – alex – 2011-07-06T01:38:57.677

It's not actually descriptively named, and it seems too good to be true :-) When was image manipulation ever that easy? – Ele Munjeli – 2011-07-06T01:56:21.983

4If $deity had wanted image editing to be obvious and simple, they wouldn't have given us GIMP – Linker3000 – 2011-07-06T08:32:15.333

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Image > Crop to Content (Version GIMP 2.10.12)

Exel Gamboa

Posted 2011-07-06T01:29:20.913

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