[Gimp-user] Selecting area within area

2010-06-13 Thread Dotan Cohen
I am using the Fuzzy Select Tool to select an area which is _roughly_ circular, however no matter how I set the tool I get either too much or too little selection. This would be a lot easier if I could specify a small section of the image, then let the tool only work in that section. Is this

Re: [Gimp-user] Selecting area within area

2010-06-13 Thread Branko Vukelic
The way I usually do it (it depends on the task, though, but in most cases anyway) is: 1. duplicate the layer 2. do all corrections on the new layer as if I was working on the portion I'm really interested in 3. mask the new layer to make it fully transparent 4. restore the areas of interest

Re: [Gimp-user] Selecting area within area

2010-06-13 Thread Dotan Cohen
Thanks Branko and Chris, layers it is then. I just wanted to make sure that I wasn't missing out on some fantastic technique made just for this. -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what-is-what.com ___ Gimp-user mailing list

Re: [Gimp-user] Selecting area within area

2010-06-13 Thread Rob Antonishen
Use boolean operations. Make your first selection with (for example) the rectangle selection. Then in the magic wand select options check out the four top icons and pick the one with the intersect tooltip. My computer isn't handy to check, sorry. Also when using the magic wand select click and