I started using the Gimp a few months ago and struggled with this at
first, too. I'll see if I can help. To see how altering a selection
with a channel mask, follow these steps.
1. Open an image and make a selection.
2. Right click in the image and do Select/Save to Channel
3. Make sure your layer
Hi Steve -
In flipping between the various tabs on the layers and channels dialog I have
found it's really easy to be looking at one thing and editing another. When
you want to edit a channel, make sure (a), that that channel is both visible
and selected s the active channel; ditto for the la
I have recently been making an effort to learn as much about using the
GIMP as I can. I have been referring to the GIMP User Manual, Grokking
The GIMP and several tutorials that I have downloaded. These all
suggest that I should be able to use the painting tools to modify layer
masks and selecti