To move a layer : select it, then select the move tool and shift-click and drag that layer. (shift will always move the selected layer whereas a plain click and drag will move the layer directly under the cursor)

you don't need to use the selection tool

On 3/16/08, Jogchum Reitsma wrote:

I feel kinda stupid to have to ask this question, because it seems so very basic... But I can't figure it out myself (and didn't find it in the documentation or mail archive), so I hope to get help here.

I've got a drawing consisting of a photo, a color-filled ellips, and two lines of text. Each of these four objects is a seperate layer.

Now I want to move one of the two lines of text. So I select that layer, make an ellips-selection around the line of text (which is the sole object on that layer; running ants are around the line of text), choose the Move tool and within the Move tool choose Move Selection.

Now I would expect that I can move this line of text by holding the mouse above this textline and dragging it to the desired place.

But that's not what happens. Only the elliptical path which marks the selection moves, nothing else...

What do I do wrong, and how can I perform this so very basic task?

Thanks a lot for your help!

regards,Jogchum

_______________________________________________ Gimp-user mailing list
Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU
https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user

The selection tool can work as you want it to too.

You select a region and then commit the selection by pressing the enter key. Then when you shift-alt-click and drag the selection it will copy it's contents and move them around. Control-alt-click and drag will cut the selection and move it (I suppose this is the behaviour you wanded)

People had some problems with these control keys under some desktop environnements and some distributions so you'll have to try it.

On 3/16/08, Jogchum Reitsma wrote:

Jogchum Reitsma schreef:

I feel kinda stupid to have to ask this question, because it seems so very basic... But I can't figure it out myself (and didn't find it in the documentation or mail archive), so I hope to get help here.

I've got a drawing consisting of a photo, a color-filled ellips, and two lines of text. Each of these four objects is a seperate layer.

Now I want to move one of the two lines of text. So I select that layer, make an ellips-selection around the line of text (which is the sole object on that layer; running ants are around the line of text), choose the Move tool and within the Move tool choose Move Selection.

Now I would expect that I can move this line of text by holding the mouse above this textline and dragging it to the desired place.

But that's not what happens. Only the elliptical path which marks the selection moves, nothing else...

What do I do wrong, and how can I perform this so very basic task?

Thanks a lot for your help!

regards,Jogchum

On Sun, 16 Mar 2008 15:17:44 +0100 Jogchum Reitsma wrote:

Now I want to move one of the two lines of text. So I select that layer, make an ellips-selection around the line of text (which is the sole object on that layer; running ants are around the line of text), choose the Move tool and within the Move tool choose Move Selection.

It is not necessary to select anything, and it's not even necessary to be in the correct layer. If you can see the text, just select the Move tool, and drag the text, taking care to start the dragging just _on_ the text (which sometimes is difficult if the text is small). GIMP will temporarily select the correct layer while dragging.

If you are in another layer, you'll notice that the cursor normally shows the 'Move mode' but this will switch off while over things in another layer. This is a good indication that you can start dragggin whatever is in that layer (the text in your case).

John

I've been using the Microsoft Office scanning software. It has the capability of saving scans in tiff format. There must be some provision in tiff that allows multiple images (pages) to be saved in a single tiff format file.

Gimp 2.4 (Win XP) tiff reader understands this format, opens the file and asks if it should open each page as image or as layers. Opening as layers allows single operations to apply on all pages, making work easier. The problem is there doesn't seem to be any way to print without flattening (all you get is the top layer of course) or to save the result, keeping the layers, in some format that another program can read. What I would like is something that could convert layers to images at least.

scott s.
.

You could make each layer the only visible layer then save the file out and only one layer will be saved out to a file.

On Sat, Jun 7, 2008 at 2:37 PM, scott s. wrote:

I've been using the Microsoft Office scanning software. It has the capability of saving scans in tiff format. There must be some provision in tiff that allows multiple images (pages) to be saved in a single tiff format file.

Gimp 2.4 (Win XP) tiff reader understands this format, opens the file and asks if it should open each page as image or as layers. Opening as layers allows single operations to apply on all pages, making work easier. The problem is there doesn't seem to be any way to print without flattening (all you get is the top layer of course) or to save the result, keeping the layers, in some format that another program can read. What I would like is something that could convert layers to images at least.

scott s.
.

_______________________________________________ Gimp-user mailing list
Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU
https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user

Nathan Lane wrote:

You could make each layer the only visible layer then save the file out and only one layer will be saved out to a file.

Thanks , that's a good work around. Separately, I've been informed of a Python script that can split out layers. The only catch is that the file name must be part of the layer name. I suspect it would be possible to edit the script to change that behavior.

scott s. .

On the other hand, its sort of useful, because you can define what file type you want the layer to be, png, jpg, gif, etc, simply by adding it to the layer name. Technically, one is supposed to always name layers.

On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 5:31 PM, scott s. wrote:

Nathan Lane wrote:

You could make each layer the only visible layer then save the file out and only one layer will be saved out to a file.

Thanks , that's a good work around. Separately, I've been informed of a Python script that can split out layers. The only catch is that the file name must be part of the layer name. I suspect it would be possible to edit the script to change that behavior.

scott s. .

On Tuesday 10 June 2008, scott s. wrote:

Nathan Lane wrote:

You could make each layer the only visible layer then save the file out and only one layer will be saved out to a file.

Thanks , that's a good work around. Separately, I've been informed of a Python script that can split out layers. The only catch is that the file name must be part of the layer name. I suspect it would be possible to edit the script to change that behavior.

If you are uisng the aniamtion plug-in (gimp-gap) it should be able to split you multi-layered images into multiple images and save then authomatically.

Other than that, it wuld be a reqally simple python-script. If you can't find it, let me know.

js ->

scott s.
.