Hi Elwin, gimpusers:

I can't comment for sure on the effect you describe, I think there might be a slight difference. The method I use for feathering selections, I think, offers a bit more control, plus allows one to have "increased" feathering where indicated.

What you do is to make your selection, then turn on quickmask, and then use gaussian blur on the quickmask, one or more times (and perhaps with different settings to sort of "smooth" things out). This allows one to actually "see" how much feather you are gonna get before you actually make use of the selection. Once you have a properly blurred quickmask, then you just convert it back to a selection and do whatever you want with it.

I've been playing around with your method of making a selection, and I'm afraid I have a newbie question. How do you blur the QuickMask?

I use the QuickMask all the time for making a selection with a fuzzy brush. Do you simply activate the QuickMask and then Filters > Blur > Gaussian Blur? But doesn't this Blur the entire image - selected and not selected?

Thanks so much.