Bug 501332

Summary: wish - temporary zoom during cropping
Product: [Applications] digikam Reporter: Markus Kempf <mkempf>
Component: Plugin-Editor-CropAssignee: Digikam Developers <digikam-bugs-null>
Status: REPORTED ---    
Severity: wishlist CC: caulier.gilles
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: 8.6.0   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Ubuntu   
OS: Linux   
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Description Markus Kempf 2025-03-11 06:45:55 UTC 
I would like to suggest the following idea/request: For over 20 years, I have been working professionally with the commercial image database IMS from Imagic. To better select the start and end points of measurement tasks in images, there is a digital zoom at the push of a button. As long as the Shift key is pressed, the area around the current mouse position is digitally magnified to 100%. In this magnified view, the cursor can be positioned precisely.

Currently, I have to manually crop many images, and such a button could significantly improve the result in digikam: pressing a button magnifies the image to 100% as soon as the mouse is in the upper right or lower left corner, or... and I can precisely select the corner for cropping.

I was able to implement similar functionality in ImageJ/Fiji using GenAI, but having it directly in Digikam would of course be a great improvement.