How to complete an action such as cropping

[jps (Joel Smith)]

I just started using RAWTherapee today. I can’t figure out how to complete an action, such as cropping. For example, I can see the crop marks indicated in the GUI, but there’s no ‘finish’ button. Hitting return seems to do nothing. Hitting SHIFT + Return does nothing.

And so on.

Is there some shortcut key or other method in RAWTherapee for ‘do what I’m asking you to do’? Thank you.

[marter (Martin Werner)]

The crop marks show you, how the result will be after saving/exporting. This is by purpose, since the source RAW-files are not changed, to prevent data losses.

for more information, pls read here:
http://rawpedia.rawtherapee.com/Crop

btw: welcome to the forum

[jps (Joel Smith)]

Thank you @marter! That makes perfect sense—preventing the crop from altering the original file. I appreciate the help. And thank you for the nice welcome to the forum. - Joel

[kofa (István Kovács)]

See also this recent thread:

How to apply the crop?

I’ve cropped an image but I can’t figure out how apply that crop. If I send it to the queue it shows the cropped area as a black border. I want the image to show as I cropped it. I must be missing something as that should be pretty basic. I watched a rather old video about cropping which ended up not answering that question. Folks were asking how to apply it in the comments and his answer was you don’t apply the crop. It’s applied when it’s processed? I don’t understand that. edit: In another …

I encourage you to give the forum’s search functionality a go. You can search by keyword and category, which is a useful combination.

[paulmatth (Paul Matthijsse)]

@jps

Is there some shortcut key or other method in RAWTherapee for ‘do what I’m asking you to do’?

Right-click.