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Selection problem on 2.3.11? Darren Govoni 13 Sep 13:30
  Selection problem on 2.3.11? Sven Neumann 13 Sep 20:31
   Selection problem on 2.3.11? Darren Govoni 13 Sep 20:56
selection problem lode leroy 25 Sep 09:35
  selection problem Michael Schumacher 25 Sep 10:21
  selection problem Joao S. O. Bueno Calligaris 25 Sep 18:11
Darren Govoni
2006-09-13 13:30:44 UTC (over 18 years ago)

Selection problem on 2.3.11?

Hi,
I just upgraded from 2.2 to 2.3.11. Btw, Thanks for the path-to-text ability, works great! the problem I'm having is that before, I could choose a layer and using the magic wand selector, I could isolate my selection to only content in that layer with regards to "empty" space around it. But now, it seems to pass through to the lowest visible layer which makes it impossible to do some editing on the current chosen layer. Is this a problem? or is there a new way to do what was easy before? I don't want to have to turn all the other layers off to select the continuous empty area of a layer.

Thanks, Darren

Sven Neumann
2006-09-13 20:31:44 UTC (over 18 years ago)

Selection problem on 2.3.11?

Hi,

On Wed, 2006-09-13 at 07:30 -0400, Darren Govoni wrote:

I just upgraded from 2.2 to 2.3.11. Btw, Thanks for the path-to-text
ability, works great!

Upgrading to 2.3. is a rather bad idea since this is an unstable development snapshot. You better keep 2.2 around for real work.

the problem I'm having is that before, I could choose a layer and using the magic wand selector, I could isolate my selection
to only content in that layer with regards to "empty" space around it. But now, it seems to pass through to the lowest visible layer which makes
it impossible to do some editing on the current chosen layer. Is this a problem?

Toggle off "Sample merged" in the tool options.

Sven

Darren Govoni
2006-09-13 20:56:21 UTC (over 18 years ago)

Selection problem on 2.3.11?

Thanks Sven!

Btw, I love the subtle design changes you guys made in terms of the menus and such.
Much more streamlined and less redundant than before. I really like it!

Sven Neumann wrote:

Hi,

On Wed, 2006-09-13 at 07:30 -0400, Darren Govoni wrote:

I just upgraded from 2.2 to 2.3.11. Btw, Thanks for the path-to-text
ability, works great!

Upgrading to 2.3. is a rather bad idea since this is an unstable development snapshot. You better keep 2.2 around for real work.

the problem I'm having is that before, I could choose a layer and using the magic wand selector, I could isolate my selection
to only content in that layer with regards to "empty" space around it. But now, it seems to pass through to the lowest visible layer which makes
it impossible to do some editing on the current chosen layer. Is this a problem?

Toggle off "Sample merged" in the tool options.

Sven

lode leroy
2006-09-25 09:35:57 UTC (over 18 years ago)

selection problem

hi...

I was touching up some scans yesterday and cam accross something new that I didn't find
how to do with gimp...

I wanted to remove a small part of the image with a part from somewhere else,
by coping a piece of background over it.

so I want to draw a selection ( e.g. using the lasso ) and now I want to use that selection
to cut a piece of background somewhere else... but I didn't find how to do that.
(I ended up drawing the selection on the background more or less the shape I wanted,
but it would have been easier to draw on the target of the copy/paste operation)

anyone have suggestions on how to do this?

thanks,

-- lode

Michael Schumacher
2006-09-25 10:21:36 UTC (over 18 years ago)

selection problem

Von: "lode leroy"

so I want to draw a selection ( e.g. using the lasso ) and now I want to use that selection to cut a piece of background somewhere else... but I didn't find how to do that.

Sounds like you want to move the selection outline without moving the content. You can do this with the move tool, http://docs.gimp.org/en/gimp-tool-move.html

Have a look at the tool options, especially the 'Affect' setting.

HTH, Michael

Joao S. O. Bueno Calligaris
2006-09-25 18:11:52 UTC (over 18 years ago)

selection problem

On Monday 25 September 2006 04:35 am, lode leroy wrote:

hi...

I was touching up some scans yesterday and cam accross something new that I didn't find
how to do with gimp...

I wanted to remove a small part of the image with a part from somewhere else,
by coping a piece of background over it.

so I want to draw a selection ( e.g. using the lasso ) and now I want to use that selection
to cut a piece of background somewhere else... but I didn't find how to do that.
(I ended up drawing the selection on the background more or less the shape I wanted,
but it would have been easier to draw on the target of the copy/paste operation)

anyone have suggestions on how to do this?

You want to use the "clone tool" - teh one that looks like a stamp.

Pick it, hold control, and click on the portion of the image you want to copy _from_, and procede to normal painting on the part of the image you are copying _to_.

I prefere using it in the "aligned" mode (tool options). You will find out that for better results you might want to pick a soft brush, and possibly tweak of the opacity settings, depending on the nature of your background.

JS ->

thanks,

-- lode