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Resizing and Scaling imported/pasted pictures. . .?

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Resizing and Scaling imported/pasted pictures. . .? Michael Williams 27 Sep 17:20
  Resizing and Scaling imported/pasted pictures. . .? Sven Neumann 27 Sep 21:37
Michael Williams
2007-09-27 17:20:00 UTC (over 17 years ago)

Resizing and Scaling imported/pasted pictures. . .?

Hi All,

I'm having a problem here. I don't understand why editing an imported/pasted picture isn't more straightforward. Why is it not as simple as selecting the area to edit and choosing the scale tool? I keep finding myself in some strange editing mode where I can't switch layers and I can't scale anything.

I simply want to do the following:

1) Import picture as layer 2) Crop that import
3) Scale that crop

. . .for whatever reason it always wants to scale the background or the layer. I just want to edit the picture I have selected.

Regards, Michael

Sven Neumann
2007-09-27 21:37:15 UTC (over 17 years ago)

Resizing and Scaling imported/pasted pictures. . .?

Hi,

On Thu, 2007-09-27 at 11:20 -0400, Michael Williams wrote:

I'm having a problem here. I don't understand why editing an imported/pasted picture isn't more straightforward. Why is it not as simple as selecting the area to edit and choosing the scale tool? I keep finding myself in some strange editing mode where I can't switch layers and I can't scale anything.

You are most probably trying to work with a floating selection. That is something you pasted but haven't positioned yet. After positioning you have the choice of anchoring it or making it a new layer. See http://docs.gimp.org/2.2/en/gimp-getting-unstuck.html#gimp-using-getting-unstuck-common-causes

And yes, we discussed to completely eliminate floating selections. But they are needed for some tasks and we haven't yet found a good solution for this. Perhaps something to address for GIMP 2.6 ...

Sven