Stephen: The Bezier tool is better suited to the tasks you're describing. Using freehand tool as a precision tool (i.e. for background extraction) is a bad idea. Freehand tool is intended to make coarse selections or tweaks in selections that don't need too much precision. I'd reccomend you this workflow for background extraction: -Draw a path along the edges of the shape that you want to extract, draw other paths for the holes (if you create them in the same path layer they are automatically combined with the other paths forming holes). -Turn path into selection -Add a mask channel based on that selection.
So, imo, the existence of better tools for the same procedure makes this request questionable. If you ask me, I'd love to have the ability to apply boolean operations between different paths before seeing further work on the free selection tool. Your other proposal (selection stack) is very interesting, but sounds quite difficult tu implement. I'm not thinking exactly in your examples, but in the possibility to transform different selection levels independently (i.e. you selected 3 circles and you want to adjust the size of the first one). Oh, btw. I'm experiencing some troubles with SIOX. In some images (I couldn't figure it out exactly when it happens) after the initial coarse selection the mask is displaced to the lower left of the image (with the right shape, but completely misaligned with the image) making it impossible to perform the extraction. Is that a known bug or it's just me? _______________________________________________ Gimp-developer mailing list Gimp-developer@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer
