Cathie,
It can be hard for me to follow/reply when there are a lot of points in one post.
Let me try to reply to a couple and then encourage separate threads for separate issues -- it's easier for others to add on in those cases too, and say "i would also like this" when each request is on it's own thread.
So let's leave the rulers and values showing selection size issue for another thread -- i'm not opposed to considering such things.
For now i'm more interested in the "cut out area" request.
As has been pointed out above, unlike the case of cropping, we can't really "remove" an interior area -- we can only fill it with something.
Right now SC has a few ways to do this:
- It can pixelate or blur, which leaves the contents partially visible.
- It can fill in the area with black interlaced lines, meant to draw attention to the idea that the contents are being redacted.
- It can "patch", which attempts to smartly fill in the contents based on the background of nearby pixels.
- It can "splicte out" a horizontal of vertical area (with ragged edge effects if desired).
It is perhaps an oversite that there is no easy way to tell SC to fill the contents with an arbitrary solid color (or even mark it as transparent); the patch action is meant to do that but doesn't give you the choice of manually specifying the background color.
So my question for you is, when you want to "remove" some interior area, is what you want covered by something i've mentioned here -- or do you have in mind something different?
[edit: looks like tomos beat me to the reply and said in one sentence what it took me a page to say]
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