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Is there a lightweight tool to crop images quickly?

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I need to crop images often - photos, printscreens, etc., and loading gimp for such a simple task takes way too long. Can you recommend a faster alternative?

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answered 3 Years ago nstitutencert · Accepted Answer

Gthumb is a nice image viewing/editing tool with simple editing tools like cropping. You can install Gthumb by running this on the command-line:

sudo apt install gthumb

Instructions for cropping in gThumb 3.2.8

Open your image in gThumb

enter image description here

Open the Edit sidebar by pressing e or clicking on the easel in the top-right corner of the window

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In the sidebar click on Crop and then crop the image as you desire

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Once finished press Enter or Crop. Then, in the Edit sidebar press Save to overwrite the original file or Save As to save to a new image file.