When using that tool, double-clicking will attempt to close the path from that location - are you accidentally double-clicking by chance?
On Mon, Oct 12, 2015 at 5:36 PM Ladystar <for...@gimpusers.com> wrote: > HI , I am an amateur gimp users, self taught through you tube, about five > years > in now. Something has changed and no matter how many times i scrape gimp > off my > drive and reinstall (registry entries too), the issue remains the same. > > I can find no settings or options to affect this issue, so it must be > something > stupid I have changed or don't understand about the program. > > let's say as an example i paste a picture into my gimp frame and from > within > that picture I want to cut something out, using my lasso tool by clicking > multiple points around the object closely and then CTRL X to cut it out. > > This tool has always worked 100 percent, but now when I attempt to laydown > selection dots around my object, before i am finished laying down the > dots, the > dots behind me dissapear, or the dots close the loop in some intersected > way > that I didn't choose because i didn't get to finish going around my object. > > I am litterally losing my mind over this issue. I have hit hte tool reset > button, i have used all th different tool selection settings, I can't get > it to > let me finish selecting the object i want to cut out, without it finishing > it or > me too early and cutting across my object. > > I have attached a picture showing how the lasso tool closed the loop on me > while > I was still trying to go around the object with selection dots. > > Has anyone experienced this, can someone help me. > > thank you > Ladystar > > Attachments: > * http://www.gimpusers.com/system/attachments/223/original/lassotool.png > > -- > Ladystar (via www.gimpusers.com/forums) > _______________________________________________ > gimp-user-list mailing list > List address: gimp-user-list@gnome.org > List membership: https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user-list > List archives: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gimp-user-list > _______________________________________________ gimp-user-list mailing list List address: gimp-user-list@gnome.org List membership: https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user-list List archives: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gimp-user-list
