On Sat, Feb 11, 2017 at 10:18 PM, Boxman <[email protected]> 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.
That seems to be an odd point of view to take to me. > 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? Aside from the difference between layer and path and selection, selection can be canceled in the Edit menu. But you knew that, I suppose. > And say for example I add text, but then want to move > it when there is no cursor to move it with? I wouldn't call the temporary/floating text layer a selection. As Michael says, though, the move tool can help you there. It moves floating layers too, if you do it right. > I can't figure out how to deselect > things - there's nothing in help about this. Combining floating layers with lower layers is maybe what you want to do? > The lack of a general select tool as in P'shop is really throwing me for a > loop. > I seem to be missing the general concept of this that is very basic to > successful use of this program. Photoshop also has paths and layers. I'm not sure about Photoshop Elements. Am I being obtuse? -- Joel Rees I'm imagining I'm a novelist: http://reiisi.blogspot.jp/p/novels-i-am-writing.html _______________________________________________ gimp-user-list mailing list List address: [email protected] List membership: https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user-list List archives: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gimp-user-list
