06-28-2023, 10:27 PM
OK This problem sorted ---- i managed to find the tool options tab Krikor kindly posted. For reasons I don't understand it doesn't default to being available or visible when you go through the menu->tools->transform tools->crop and only appear only comes up by clicking on v small icon on the extreme top right of the window which is labelled 'configure this tab' but actually allowed me to select, amongst many other tabs the 'add tab' dialog and then to select the tool options to make it visible and from there unclick the 'delete cropped pixels' as well and other choices to make the crop tool more 'normal' -- I can see there's lots of interesting functionality here but as a beginner I really need to start with basic cropping!