There is no "general purpose select tool" in Ps either that I'm aware of. You choose a tool to do what you want, the "selection" is a function of what you want to accomplish. On Sat, Feb 11, 2017 at 8:00 AM Michael Schumacher <schum...@gmx.de> wrote:
> On 02/11/2017 02:18 PM, Boxman wrote: > > > I was advised that there is no general purpose cursor to make selections > in GIMP > > - that the selection is made with the tool used. If that's the case, > when a > > selection is created by a tool (example text tool) how do you get rid of > the > > selection mode outlines? > > There, you're not seeing a selection, but the layer boundary. > > > And say for example I add text, but then want to move > > it when there is no cursor to move it with? > > You can use the move tool. > > > -- > Regards, > Michael > GPG: 96A8 B38A 728A 577D 724D 60E5 F855 53EC B36D 4CDD > _______________________________________________ > 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 > -- Pat David GPG: 66D1 7CA6 8088 4874 946D 18BD 67C7 6219 89E9 57AC _______________________________________________ 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