Resize selection relative to opposite corner instead of center.

[Flightkick]

Description
Resize using mouse dragging does so from the center of the selected area. This behavior makes it hard to align multiple layers.

IIRC, Paint.NET keeps the opposite corner of the one being dragged at the same position, making this much easier.

[cameronwhite]

This is referring to the Move Selected Pixels tool, correct?

There has been some partial work on this which needs to be revisited (on the https://github.com/PintaProject/Pinta/tree/feature/resize-selected-pixels branch). The idea is to make the Move Selected Pixels tool work more like the Rectangle Select tool and give you handles to resize the selected content from any corner

[Flightkick]

@cameronwhite Ah yes, that would be correct. I see now that the current behavior doesn't actually allow dragging a corner but just responds to the dragging by scaling the selection as a whole. That explains why this is currently not supported. Nice to see that this is being reworked to allow resizing from any corner, thank you for answering! :)

[spikespaz]

I'm actually amazed that this doesn't exist. I don't even care about the handles, I can use Vim keybindings if that's what the maintainers want to do. But the lack of ability to resize selections quite literally makes Pinta useless for every purpose I have wanted to use it for. I come back every once in a while to see if it is possible, and it never is.

[anistar02]

There has been some partial work on this which needs to be revisited (on the https://github.com/PintaProject/Pinta/tree/feature/resize-selected-pixels branch). The idea is to make the Move Selected Pixels tool work more like the Rectangle Select tool and give you handles to resize the selected content from any corner

Adding the option to resize selected pixels similar to the rectangle select tool would be really neat. Resizing by holding shift/ctrl works but it feels less precise than dragging corners or edges. Also its not very clear from the get go that this is the current way do it, I had to look up if it was even possible to resize or if Pinta lacked that feature.

[pedropaulosuzuki]

I'd suggest changing the tool name from "Move Selected Pixels Tool" to "Transform Tool" once #585/#1287 is done. Kinda fits more with the tool behavior.

Edit: also "Move Selection" -> "Transform Selection"

Edit 2: to be honest, maybe we could merge the two tools and have the option to change between transforming selection or image in the top bar (where we have the tool controls), which is currently empty for both.

[boevski]

Please make this happen ASAP. In it's current form, the Move Selection tool is useless. At least I can't find any use for it. As far as I can see, Pinta tries to follow the UI and feature set of Paint.NET. Just make the tool behave like in Paint.NET. That's what we need. It's literally the only reason I sometimes use Windows :-).