"Image" options in Properties disappears if I intersect an image with a shape

[MoshiMotsu]

After I crop an image using a shape and the intersect tool, I am no longer able to edit it as an image (e.g. apply a grayscale filter to it). Here are the Properties before the crop:

And here are the Properties after the crop:

Notice, in particular, the stark lack of the “Images” dropdown under “columns.”

Is this something I can address with some other way of cropping images? Is this something I should file a bug report for? It’s feels a bit related to my other Issue about cropping with shapes, so I’m worried it might just be a bug.

[Hrbrgr]

@MoshiMotsu

Is this something I can address with some other way of cropping images?

LibreOffice Draw has only limited possibilities and is not an image editing program.

@MoshiMotsu

Is this something I should file a bug report for?

No.

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Describe exactly what you want the end product to look like so that someone can suggest possible steps to get there.

[EarnestAl]

You have intersected a shape with an image so you get a shape with a bitmap fill, not a bitmap.
To get the Image options you need to click Shape > Convert > To Bitmap

[Grantler]

@EarnestAl

To get the Image options you need to click Shape > Convert > To Bitmap

… or you cut the intersected shape and (Paste Special) and paste it as a bitmap.

[MoshiMotsu]

Describe exactly what you want the end product to look like so that someone can suggest possible steps to get there.

Respectfully, I thought this was very heavily implied in my original post. I’d like for the “Images” dropdown to remain. While I don’t have it on me, I figure if I tried the same thing in Powerpoint, I’d be able to do this in the way I’ve described; cropping, then applying a filter.

LibreOffice Draw has only limited possibilities and is not an image editing program.

Very fair. All I’m suggesting is that the possibilities it has not be constrained to arbitrary intermediary edits, something one of the millions of end users used to the same functionality on the non-sovereignty-respecting alternative, i.e. MSOffice, might look at and think, “how come they don’t have this simple functionality here?”

I really like LO and I wholeheartedly support it’s mission; hence, why I’d like to see it have functionality that competes well with the less ethically sound market solutions!

[Wanderer]

@MoshiMotsu

might look at and think, “how come they don’t have this simple functionality here?”

A lot of users don’t see the difference between vector and bitmap oriented graphics. So together with the decreasing ability/willingness to read manuals we have to accept them “thinking”.

@MoshiMotsu

less ethically sound market solutions!

Sorry, while I see some advantages in open source, I don’t think to sell closed source software is an “ethical” issue.