[GTALUG] How to cut out borders of image?

[William Park]

Thanks.  Easiest was "rectangular selection, crop to selection, resave". 
  Also worked was "copy/paste of rectangular selection", which would be 
inverse.

--William

On 9/5/21 10:12 PM, Don Tai via talk wrote:
> Using Gimp, use the box selector and select the image without the 
> border. then "Image-> crop to selection", resave.
> 
> On Sun, 5 Sept 2021 at 22:00, William Park via talk <talk at gtalug.org 
> <mailto:talk at gtalug.org>> wrote:
> 
>     Not really Linux related except for the fact that GIMP in Linux.
> 
>     I have an image that is too large.  I don't want to reduce the whole
>     image.  I just want to cut out left and right borders, like you
>     would do
>     with scissors.  How do you do that with GIMP (I assume it would be GIMP
>     thing).
> 
>     In Windows, I just move the left/right edges with mouse.  Searching
>     online for GIMP answers, I get things like transparent layer, selection
>     layer, etc. :-(
> 
>     --William