Re: [Gimp-user] Free select tool in 2.6

2010-07-21 Thread Jeffery Small 
Martin Nordholts ense...@gmail.com writes:

On 07/19/2010 10:48 AM, Jeffery Small wrote:

 I recently upgraded from Gimp 2.4.3 to 2.6.8.  The free select tool has
 changed to allow polygon edges and this also now requires that the stop
 point be extremely close to the start point in order to close the area when
 dragging the cursor.  Is there a way to re-establish the old behavior so
 that holding down the left mouse button and dragging the cursor to define a
 region will automatically close when the mouse button is released?  There is
 no mention of this in the manual.

Hi

There currently is no way to do this, but note that you can press Return 
to close a pending free selection, so you can replace

   1. Drag and release

with

   1. Drag and release
   2. Press Return

HTH,
Martin

Martin:

Thanks for the great piece of information.  That will help out greatly.

Regards,
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[Gimp-user] Free select tool in 2.6

2010-07-19 Thread Jeffery Small 

I recently upgraded from Gimp 2.4.3 to 2.6.8.  The free select tool has
changed to allow polygon edges and this also now requires that the stop
point be extremely close to the start point in order to close the area when
dragging the cursor.  Is there a way to re-establish the old behavior so
that holding down the left mouse button and dragging the cursor to define a
region will automatically close when the mouse button is released?  There is
no mention of this in the manual.

Thanks.
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Re: [Gimp-user] Free select tool in 2.6

2010-07-19 Thread Martin Nordholts 
On 07/19/2010 10:48 AM, Jeffery Small wrote:

 I recently upgraded from Gimp 2.4.3 to 2.6.8.  The free select tool has
 changed to allow polygon edges and this also now requires that the stop
 point be extremely close to the start point in order to close the area when
 dragging the cursor.  Is there a way to re-establish the old behavior so
 that holding down the left mouse button and dragging the cursor to define a
 region will automatically close when the mouse button is released?  There is
 no mention of this in the manual.

Hi

There currently is no way to do this, but note that you can press Return 
to close a pending free selection, so you can replace

   1. Drag and release

with

   1. Drag and release
   2. Press Return

HTH,
Martin


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[Gimp-user] Free select tool

2008-12-13 Thread dragon77 
How do I remove this black stuff surrounding an image that appears when I try
to cut out an image with free select tool to paste onto another picture?
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Re: [Gimp-user] Free select tool

2008-12-13 Thread Martin Nordholts 
dragon77 wrote:
 How do I remove this black stuff surrounding an image that appears when I try
 to cut out an image with free select tool to paste onto another picture?
   
Make sure the layer has an alpha channel.
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