XnView Software

Hi,

I want to cut parts out of photos to use them for my desktop background.

Since I use a netbook with a screen size of 1024x600px, the ratio is 1.70666666.... which is not in the ratio list yet.

Please add that ! Or even better, add a function where the user specifies the final pixel dimensions of the cropped picture he wants, XnView then calculates the ratio and creates a selection locked to that ratio.

Thanks in advance !

+1, I support (eepc compatibility)
Plus an other free option (for a custom input ratio)

Selection ratio is one of the many things in XnView that should have (and would greatly benefit from) a user configuration interface with save, delete, re-order...

There's a configurable selection ratio which might help:
1 - Create a selection with the desired ratio
In your case you can
1a) Create a screenshot (PrintScrn),
1b) Insert it in XnView (Ctrl+Shift+V)
1c) Select the full image (Ctrl+A)
to get a selection with the desired ratio.
2 - Save this selection using "Edit > Set selection ratio > Save selection as custom"

From now on you can load the selection with your ratio using "Edit > Set selection ratio > Saved selection" (C)

So much for the theory and how it is supposed to work, unfortunately there are some bugs. E.g. when pressing "C" the full image is selected sometimes.