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Transforming selections

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Transforming selections berniek 18 Sep 01:51
  Transforming selections Noel Stoutenburg 18 Sep 02:32
   Transforming selections berniek 19 Sep 03:13
  Transforming selections Ofnuts 18 Sep 09:03
berniek
2011-09-18 01:51:46 UTC (over 13 years ago)
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Transforming selections

I have checked the roadmap for GIMP and I have seen that the Unified transform tool can be expected in version 3.8. (ugh)

Now what I would like to ask is there any tool or plugin for GIMP that can transform my selections? Or is there any open source image editor that can do it.

I'm not an artist and just for this I have to use Photoshop. For me PS is an overkill for just cutting up an image.

Thanks for your answers.

Noel Stoutenburg
2011-09-18 02:32:56 UTC (over 13 years ago)

Transforming selections

Berniek

Before I could be of much help, I'd need to know exactly what kind of transformations you want to do. For example, select a particular image (to which you might provide a link) and describe exactly what you'd like changed.

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Ofnuts
2011-09-18 09:03:00 UTC (over 13 years ago)

Transforming selections

On 09/18/2011 03:51 AM, berniek wrote:

I have checked the roadmap for GIMP and I have seen that the Unified transform tool can be expected in version 3.8. (ugh)

Now what I would like to ask is there any tool or plugin for GIMP that can transform my selections? Or is there any open source image editor that can do it.

I'm not an artist and just for this I have to use Photoshop. For me PS is an overkill for just cutting up an image.

I don't really know what you have in mind with "selection". In Gimp the "selection" is an ambiguous term that designates either:

- the "selection mask", which tells which pixels are selected - the selected pixels.

So, "transforming a selection" is either selecting different pixels (1st case), or acting on selected pixels (2nd case). In Gimp you can do either.

berniek
2011-09-19 03:13:04 UTC (over 13 years ago)
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Transforming selections

I'm looking for exactly this fucntion:

transforming selections

In any selection tool, in ‘marching -ants state’ (nothing hairy happening), either the pending selection or else (each, in a multi-selection future) committed selection shall have a transform icon—Image:Transform_icon.png, 32 pix diameter, 25% opacity—associated with it on-canvas. Clicking it shall invoke the transform mode: [snip]

This is from the GIMP roadmap. And is planned only in version 3.8 it's the 13th on the TODO list.

So this is the functionality why I'm searching for a image editor that is easy to use for non-artists, or at least not hard to learn. :) Or a plugin for GIMP that can do this.