On Tue, 2018-06-19 at 17:13 +0200, BWK wrote: > I doubt you've ever tried doing a selection rectangle to that size > and getting > it exactly the right size and boundaries. It is a very slow and > fiddly operation.
You can use tool options to fix the size in the rectangle select tool, and for that matter the position, or make the rectangle and drag it to where you want it; alt and arrow keys may also work to move it. You can also use image->canvas size, of course, if you know the positions you want. I routinely do large rectangle selects, by the way. Did one that was probably about 15,000 pixels high yesterday, and then Fill with bg, and it was fast. I zoom in to adjust the rectangle as needed, use the ` key to zoom back out again, or control-shift-j to fit the image in the window, but i've been using the keystrokes for a long time :) If it's going slowly for you it might be you don't have enough memory. This desktop has 32GBytes of RAM and i have the tile cache set to 24G. Liam -- Liam Quin - web slave for https://www.fromoldbooks.org/ with fabulous vintage art and fascinating texts to read. Click here to have the slave beaten. _______________________________________________ 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