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Why...just why..when pasting a screenshot then using the selection tool, the only thing it does is move the image. There is no way to just select an area.

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Danny G via gimp-user-list
2018-08-01 06:34:20 UTC (over 6 years ago)

Why...just why..when pasting a screenshot then using the selection tool, the only thing it does is move the image. There is no way to just select an area.

I just don't get it. I'm trying to edit a screenshot. I paste the screenshot (this is the second open screenshot I'm trying to edit, in a second window). I click the selection tool. When I go to select the area I want to use, instead it just moves the image around. Like I switched tools at some point.

Just..why.

I want to crop a second image and paste it into the first. But every time I go to select the specific part of image 2, all it does is move image 2 around instead of select.

I didn't choose the motherfreaking move selection tool. I'm on the selection tool. I'm trying to choose an area to select, crop, then paste into image 1.

But every time I go to select an area, it just moves the image and nothing else.

Ofnuts
2018-08-01 22:25:19 UTC (over 6 years ago)

Why...just why..when pasting a screenshot then using the selection tool, the only thing it does is move the image. There is no way to just select an area.

On 08/01/18 08:34, Danny G via gimp-user-list wrote:

I just don't get it. I'm trying to edit a screenshot. I paste the screenshot (this is the second open screenshot I'm trying to edit, in a second window). I click the selection tool. When I go to select the area I want to use, instead it just moves the image around. Like I switched tools at some point.

Just..why.

I want to crop a second image and paste it into the first. But every time I go to select the specific part of image 2, all it does is move image 2 around instead of select.

I didn't choose the motherfreaking move selection tool. I'm on the selection tool. I'm trying to choose an area to select, crop, then paste into image 1.

But every time I go to select an area, it just moves the image and nothing else.

Because hen you paste you get a transitional layer called "floating selection" and you cannot do much with it except moving it around. To get everything functional again you have to either:

* Merge it into an existing layer: Layer>Anchor layer, Ctrl-H * Create a new layer from it: Layer>To new layer, Ctrl-Shift-N