Crop Layer To Selection

[amusicfamily]

So - in Gimp 3.0 version 1, I see that it is no longer available to crop a layer to the selection. Instead we are forced to crop all layers to content. That is unacceptable - how do I restore the ability to simply crop a layer to selection?

[Ofnuts]

It's Layer > Resize layers to selection now

[programmer_ceds]

As Ofnuts says this will crop any selected layers. If you only have one layer selected then only that one will be cropped.

[ips]

(06-13-2025, 07:27 AM)Ofnuts Wrote: It's Layer > Resize layers to selection now

It's particularly misleading to name something resize when the operation is to crop the layer to the selection. I never imagined that option would be what I was looking for until I found your post! The name should definitely change!

[CmykStudent]

(07-10-2025, 06:49 PM)ips Wrote: It's particularly misleading to name something resize when the operation is to crop the layer to the selection. I never imagined that option would be what I was looking for until I found your post! The name should definitely change!

Hi! It was renamed because it also *does* resize - if you make the selection area larger than the layer, it will grow to that size. There was a issue report that "Crop to Selection" was confusing, if you're interested in reading the history: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gimp/-/issues/8073