Hi,
first thanks for a fabulous tool (years ahead of Axure or Justinmind)!
I started using it for daily routine work and would like to vouch for a feature, that's missing.
Since I use screenshots of existing UI as background (instead of just sketches) I would like to have the ability to crop unwanted regions. Sometimes this cropping is just because I want to add something to an existing design (let's say adding one more field to a form).
It would be extremely helpful if there was a way to crop images (or even 9patch them - developer.android.com/.../draw9patch.html).
Thanks again for such a great tool! Looking forward to loving it even more once cropping is in ;-)
Hi Petr, thanks for the suggestion. I totally agree (this is on an internal backlog :) ).
I added it to our User Voice site, so if you can go vote for it, it might get added faster.
Thanks!
Added one more "feature request" :) and one more is coming.
Will try to distill my 5+ years of working in Visio into some stories and actionable improvement / additions to Indigo Studio ;)
Awesome! Thanks!
By the way, there is a workaround for this, sorta. :) If you put an image into a container, you can resize the container to clip it (and move the image around inside it). Set the container border to 0/no color, and it ends up working similar to cropping. There are a couple annoyances:
1) To move the "cropped" image, you need to move the container. Currently, this is done by selecting the container and then dragging its drag handle or the big border around it. We are fixing this annoyance for containers in general, but for now, if you group the container, then you can move it around as one thing by dragging anywhere on it.
2) It can be difficult to select the container if your image occupies its whole area (or more). There are a few ways to workaround that: drag around the whole container, and it will be selected, right-click and use the context menu to select it, or use the Elements and Layers panel.
Anyways, it is a hack (as you can see), but it is a way to emulate cropping for now. Once we make selecting/moving containers easier, it will be less annoying, but I still want us to add the image cropping/slicing--that's something I've wanted since the early days of when we were working on it. Just a matter of balancing priorities, ya know. :)
Using the "crude workaround" now, but it still beats doing manual crops in Preview or GIMP.
I would also like to thank you for these excellent tips, they are very useful and really appreciated :)
Great! Keep your feedback coming! :)