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how to select & copy a circular part of photo

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how to select & copy a circular part of photo tapper 10 Feb 21:25
  how to select & copy a circular part of photo Deniz Dogan 10 Feb 21:33
   how to select & copy a circular part of photo Jay Smith 10 Feb 21:44
  how to select & copy a circular part of photo Sven Neumann 10 Feb 21:38
tapper
2010-02-10 21:25:57 UTC (almost 15 years ago)
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how to select & copy a circular part of photo

I need help with a newbie question (ver 2.6). I need to select a circular part of a photo - the goal is to create a web page with circular photos arranged in a circle. The only way I've found is to draw a circular selection, display the QuickMask to show the outline of the circle and use the bezier tool to click around the circle then select to Path and copy that to a new file. There must be a better way; can anyone describe it?

Muchas gracias!

Deniz Dogan
2010-02-10 21:33:19 UTC (almost 15 years ago)

how to select & copy a circular part of photo

2010/2/10 Donna B. :

I need help with a newbie question (ver 2.6). I need to select a circular part of a photo - the goal is to create a web page with circular photos arranged in a circle. The only way I've found is to draw a circular selection, display the QuickMask to show the outline of the circle and use the bezier tool to click around the circle then select to Path and copy that to a new file. There must be a better way; can anyone describe it?

I may very well have misunderstood your question, but can't you just make a circular selection, copy the selection and then paste into a new image?

Sven Neumann
2010-02-10 21:38:13 UTC (almost 15 years ago)

how to select & copy a circular part of photo

On Wed, 2010-02-10 at 21:25 +0100, Donna B. wrote:

I need help with a newbie question (ver 2.6). I need to select a circular part of a photo - the goal is to create a web page with circular photos arranged in a circle. The only way I've found is to draw a circular selection, display the QuickMask to show the outline of the circle and use the bezier tool to click around the circle then select to Path and copy that to a new file. There must be a better way; can anyone describe it?

Just omit all the steps between "draw a circular selection" and "copy that to a new file".

Sven

Jay Smith
2010-02-10 21:44:01 UTC (almost 15 years ago)

how to select & copy a circular part of photo

On 02/10/2010 03:33 PM, Deniz Dogan wrote:

2010/2/10 Donna B. :

I need help with a newbie question (ver 2.6). I need to select a circular part of a photo - the goal is to create a web page with circular photos arranged in a circle. The only way I've found is to draw a circular selection, display the QuickMask to show the outline of the circle and use the bezier tool to click around the circle then select to Path and copy that to a new file. There must be a better way; can anyone describe it?

I may very well have misunderstood your question, but can't you just make a circular selection, copy the selection and then paste into a new image?

Deniz ... What you understood is what I understood.

But allow me to add:

1) Use the ellipse selection tool (immediately to the right of the usual rectangular selection tool in my Gimp).

2) For that tool, in the preferences (which on my Gimp is right below the tools), turn on Fixed for Aspect Ratio. That will get you a circle instead of a random ellipse. You can also specify exact size, etc., etc.

3) Set the background color selector to White (or whatever you want). Do the selection.
Invert the selection. [Selection..., Invert] Hit Delete.

Jay