Re: Two How-to Questions

[Marc Lehmann]

> > Suppose you select the pencil tool, go into GFig and draw a geometric star
> > and then press the Paint button to draw it on the canvas of the current
> > file.....you have created a closed "path" in the shape of a star....
> > 
> > How do you then turn that into a selection so that any operations that you

Instead of drawing into the image, draw into a channel and use that as a
selection. In recent gimps you can use the quickmask feature.

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