Selection handles on a non freshly created selection
From: olspookishmagus@gmail.com
Date: Fri, 1 Mar 2013 17:23:54 +0200
To: gimp-user-list@gnome.org
Subject: [Gimp-user] Selection handles on a non freshly created selection
Hello!
Right after one makes a selection, say by using the Rectangle Select
Tool, is presented with handles that allow altering the selection.
If one then selects another tool without deselecting is being deprived
of these handles while the selection remains active thus rendering him
unable to alter the selection in that fashion.
Thus forming my question: is there a way to make these handles to
(re-)appear on a non-freshly created selection?
Sophoklis
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Not really. You can click inside the selected area and the selector will create rectangular select handles based on it, but this only has the desired effect on simple rectangular selections (or ellipse for ellipse). Otherwise clicking and dragging will replace whatever complex shape exists with a simple rectangle - which is not desirable, but I don't think the devs will call it a bug either.
Thing about the handles on the Rectangle (and Ellipse) selectors is that though the selection has already been executed, the handles allow you to retroactively fine-tune the size or position (it literally Undoes the current selection and re-does it with the new values). But this isn't the same as moving or scaling an existing (and possibly complex) selection. For example:
- Create an Ellipse selection somewhere on the image.
- Switch to the Rectangle selector.
- Click inside the selection to get the selector handles.
- Attempt to resize or move the handles and the selected (ellipse) area is replaced by a rectangle.
There does not appear to be a way of e.g. directly scaling the selection channel only.
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