Re: [Gimp-developer] "Quick select" tool

2010-02-11 Thread Alexandre Prokoudine
On 2/12/10, S H wrote: > I think a better way would be to create a smart brush-style selection tool, > kind of a combination between quick mask and magic select. It would select > up to edges in the image, but no farther than a certain distance set in it's > options. This would allow rapid selecti

Re: [Gimp-developer] "Quick select" tool

2010-02-11 Thread S H
I'm afraid not. I tried it, and it seems quite slow, and doesn't have a live preview. Somebody just told me that Photoshop has a similar tool. I found a description of it here: http://www.photoshopcafe.com/cs3/qs.htm On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 3:50 PM, Owen wrote: > > > Currently GIMP has two tool

Re: [Gimp-developer] "Quick select" tool

2010-02-11 Thread Owen
> Currently GIMP has two tools that can smartly select a region of a > real > photo - the scissors tool, and the magic select tool. The magic select > tool > is only useful under very specific circumstances. The scissors tool, > while > useful, is often suboptimal speed-wise. > > I think a better