Re: idea: "tighten" current selection

2000-12-06 Thread Austin Donnelly
On Tuesday, 5 Dec 2000, David Bonnell wrote: > On Wed, 6 Dec 2000, Austin Donnelly wrote: > > > ... > > Probably the easiest way would be to use select by colour, but that > > would catch other stuff that was a similar colour. > > > Could change "Select by Colour" to only select pixels within th

Re: idea: "tighten" current selection

2000-12-06 Thread David Bonnell
On Wed, 6 Dec 2000, Austin Donnelly wrote: > ... > Probably the easiest way would be to use select by colour, but that > would catch other stuff that was a similar colour. > Could change "Select by Colour" to only select pixels within the current selection if there is one, or the entire image (or

Re: idea: "tighten" current selection

2000-12-06 Thread Steinar H. Gunderson
On Wed, Dec 06, 2000 at 04:10:18PM +, Austin Donnelly wrote: > B) Is there an easier or better way of doing this task? Try the Intelligent Scissors? /* Steinar */

idea: "tighten" current selection

2000-12-06 Thread Austin Donnelly
I had an idea for a new way of modifying the current selection: tighten. The problem it solves is as follows: suppose you have some dark coloured text on a white background, and you'd like to select it. The problem is that none of the current tools allow you to do that easily. Probably the easie