: Drag to resize canvas size in GIMP the way I do it in MSPaint? Any time I prefer Microsoft Paint over GIMP it's because in Paint you can simply and swiftly drag the canvas borders to enlarge

@Heady304

Changing canvas size in Gimp

In Gimp we can use the Crop tool (Shift+C) to quickly drag the canvas to a new size.

To allow growing as well as crop we need to check Allow growing in the toolbox as shown below.


Draw a box for the new size



The exact geometry of the new image will be shown in the bottom line while dragging.
Press Enter to apply



The new background will be filled with the background colour as soon as we flatten the image to integrate the previous image's layer.

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