On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 10:05 AM, Dotan Cohen wrote:

When I am selecting an area with the freehand select tool, how can I move the image shown? I need to select an area that is larger than my screen size. Zooming out is not an option because I need the precision that zoom gives me. Thanks.

Try middle-mouse or space bar...

Chris

On Monday 17 August 2009, Dotan Cohen wrote:

When I am selecting an area with the freehand select tool, how can I move the image shown?

Hello Dotan,

try pressing the space bar. Then the mouse should move (or more specifically "pan") your view of the image when no mouse button is pressed. I think that this is what you want :) But maybe the navigator in the bottom right corner of the image window works better for you. Just try them out.

Daniel

On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 2:21 PM, Dotan Cohen wrote:

2009/8/17 Chris Mohler :

On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 10:05 AM, Dotan Cohen wrote:

When I am selecting an area with the freehand select tool, how can I move the image shown? I need to select an area that is larger than my screen size. Zooming out is not an option because I need the precision that zoom gives me. Thanks.

Try middle-mouse or space bar...

Thanks, Chris, but what I am looking for is a way to pan while selecting. As I cannot release the left mouse button (I have not selected all that I need to select) I need to pan with it depressed.

Let go, pan using either MMB or space, then continue making the selection. There's no penalty for releasing LMB early :)

Chris

Hi,

On Mon, 2009-08-17 at 22:36 +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote:

Let go, pan using either MMB or space, then continue making the selection. There's no penalty for releasing LMB early :)

When I do that, as soon as I finish making the second selection (after the pan) I loose the first selection.

Are you using GIMP 2.6 or are you for whatever reason stuck to an older version?

Sven

Hi,

On Mon, 2009-08-17 at 22:36 +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote:

When I do that, as soon as I finish making the second selection (after the pan) I loose the first selection.

There's always only one selection. Creating a selection will replace the current one. That has nothing to do with panning. If you want to add to an existing selection, then choose the Add mode from the tool options of the selection tool. Or use the modifier keys (as hinted in the status-bar).

Sven

Patrick Horgan writes:

If you're trying to use the lasso it's frustrating like that, you have to do the whole thing in one complex wack. If instead you use the path tool you can

(and in another message)

In my link to the selection tutorial I should have given credit to Akkana Peck whose tutorial it is, and noted that her book: Beginning GIMP: from novice to professional ROCKS!!!! And also she helps people out here all the time and deserves a lot of credit for being such a good citizen of the net.

Thanks! What a nice thing to say. :-)

I should probably mention that that LinuxChix class is old (I think it was based on GIMP 2.2) and in 2.6, the Lasso tool is *much* easier to use. You no longer have to select in one go -- you can drag for a while, stop, scroll the view, drag some more. You can also mix freehand dragging with clicking to make line segments, like you would with the Path tool. It's like the best parts of the old Lasso combined with Paths.

I never used the old Lasso tool much, because I couldn't zoom in and scroll around while selecting, but in 2.6 I use it quite a lot. If you haven't used the new Lasso because you didn't like the old one, give the new one a try!

(Unfortunately for me the Lasso was changed to late to make it in to the second edition of "Beginning GIMP" except as an appendix. The perils of writing books based on actively developed projects ...)

...Akkana