cropping rotated images

[Bjoern Thiele]

Hi,
I am trying to do some basic editing in Snip SVG. I have a few images that have been shot with the camera tilted. So I rotate them and then I crop them. I'd expect the cropped image to be straight but what I get is a cropping frame that is tilted along with the canvas. The resulting image has a straight center but empty wedges on the outside. Is that meant that way?
regards, Björn

[Tim Green]

I'd expect the cropped image to be straight but what I get is a cropping frame that is tilted along with the canvas. The resulting image has a straight center but empty wedges on the outside. Is that meant that way?

Yes, because every element on the canvas is a separate object, and stays separate. So cropping on an object is always on the object's own border rectangle, no matter what orientation it has.

What you can do is save your rotated version as a bitmap image (PNG or JPG or GIF), then open that image, or insert it in another image, and crop it.