Resizing cropped images adds background in export

[fatso83 (Carl Erik Kopseng)]

I came across a weird thing today when exporting a batch of images. The cropped image was resized as if part of a full-size image, but the original (cropped) content around it was replaced with black in the resulting exported image. This was using the Fast Export (Shift-Ctrl-B) with a max width and height of 5000 px (to avoid down-sizing).

If I were to save it standalone using Ctrl-S, no such effect would occur, as the Resize option was inactive on that picture.

Given that I am a fresh user of RT that already has been burnt quite a few times by its alternative take on common photo editor UX, I was unsure whether this was a bug or a feature In any case, I do not want the effect, so how can I avoid it when exporting using Fast Export?

[paperdigits (Mica)]

Have you read Getting started?

From that page: Fast Export (low quality and bypasses some tools but fast saving - don’t use this for typical saving!)

You should put imaged in the batch queue, then process them when you’re ready.

[XavAL (Xavier Bartol)]

And maybe read this answer in another thread:

crop & export: is resize a must

@heckflosse Ok, I have replicated the issue and now I think I see what’s happening: most probably you’re using Fast Export Options > Processing pipeline > Dedicated and the Maximum size indicated in the Resize part is bigger than the cropped size of the image. E.g.: the cropped image measures 300x400 pixels, and the Maximum width and Maximum height are bigger, say 1500x2000 pixels. In this case the exported image has the same size of the raw file, with the crop at the top left corner, and …