Any time I prefer Microsoft Paint over GIMP it’s because in Paint you can simply and swiftly drag the canvas borders to enlarge it or crop it. I cannot understand why this feature is lacking in other editors.
Is it maybe somehow hidden? Can I do it in gimp?
Answer
Changing canvas size in Gimp
In Gimp we can use the Crop tool (Shift+C) to quickly drag the canvas to a new size.
To allow growing as well as crop we need to check Allow growing in the toolbox as shown below.
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Draw a box for the new size
The exact geometry of the new image will be shown in the bottom line while dragging.
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Press Enter to apply
The new background will be filled with the background colour as soon as we flatten the image to integrate the previous image’s layer.
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Click Image / Fix Canvas to Layers if you see “This active layer’s pixels are locked” and the background matches the Gimp GUI.
Attribution
Source : Link , Question Author : Tomáš Zato – Reinstate Monica , Answer Author : NobleUplift