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I have an image open in Krita 3.1.3 (on a Mac) and I'm trying to determine where a part of the image starts so that I can batch process some crops with ImageMagick. (It's a spritesheet.)

In most image editing tools that I've used you can generally see the x and y coordinates of the mouse/cursor in the bottom toolbar, if not by default than after selecting some tools.

Unfortunately, I've tried switching to a couple of the tools, as well as searching the online documentation, and I can't find out how to see where my mouse/cursor currently is located within the image.

Is there a preference, toolbar, or a tool to select, that would show me the x and y position of my mouse/cursor?

Thanks!

James Skemp
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I ended up posting this on the Krita forums and received a response from a Krita maintainer about this.

No, Krita doesn't have that. In the past 15 years, about half a dozen people have asked for that, and we've made two or three attempts at creating something like that, but our attempts all impacted painting performance, so we scrapped them.

As a workaround, I selected the Rectangular Selection Tool (Ctrl + R) and dragged from where my mouse was to the top left corner of the image. The Tool Options panel will display a width and height of the selection, will give a fairly good idea of where the cursor is/was.

Not ideal, but it's a sufficient workaround for my needs.

James Skemp
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You can use the ruler. Go to 'View' -> 'Show Rulers'. That will give you the X/Y coords. You also need 'View' -> 'Rulers Track Pointer' enabled too. Note that the pixel resolution changes with how much you're zoomed in/out. When I fully zoom in, I get less than 1 pixel resolution.

hacksoi
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You can use the measure tool. and click from top-left or whatever. You can see the sizes at the tool panel. You might need to drag horizontally or vertically to get only one of the coords a time though :( I have no idea how to make a line stay at 0/90 degrees like in gimp though (docs do not mention it). https://docs.krita.org/en/reference_manual/tools/measure.html

measure tool tool option panel

Nande
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