Re: [Gimp-user] floating selection--how it arose
--- carol irvin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The way I cropped was to use the horizontal selection marquee tool and then pressed ImageCrop in the menu of the image. When the crop was completed, I had my nice cropped image BUT I also had a floating layer and thus 2 layers in the layers palette. The only tool which would appear on the image thereafter was the move tool. Until I found the anchoring command, I was dead in the water. You don't need the Selection tool. Go right to the Crop tool and you'll be all set. Got a little couch potato? Check out fun summer activities for kids. http://search.yahoo.com/search?fr=oni_on_mailp=summer+activities+for+kidscs=bz ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] floating selection
Von: carol irvin [EMAIL PROTECTED] It kept happening no matter what I tried UNTIL I tried this anchoring. You can also turn floating selections into new layers. The interesting question is how you did get crop to produce a floating selection in the first place. Either the definition of crop is different, or you did some other steps as well. I could then save it with any file extension. Remember that I am using the Gimp version for Mac on my macbook so that possibly makes my experience a bit different from a Windows or Linux Gimp user. Shouldn't make any difference. HTH, Michael -- GMX FreeMail: 1 GB Postfach, 5 E-Mail-Adressen, 10 Free SMS. Alle Infos und kostenlose Anmeldung: http://www.gmx.net/de/go/freemail ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] floating selection
Also Carol you can right mouse click on the floating layer and select new layer which can be very useful. Regards Pete PS Welcome to the gimp The Mac doesn't have right click. Instead, you use with your left hand the control key and with your right the mouse bar on the macbook (or a left mouse button if you were using an actual mouse). I have used this on the floating layer and no context menu comes up. so i think that one limitation I have on the Gimp is that I have to use the menus. So I can go into the layer menu and make a new layer with that. Initially I really missed right click. However, I screwed up my thumb last summer using right click on my windows laptop without a mouse. I had to do a twisting motion with my thumb on the mousing device on the laptop. Anyway, I ended up having to go into physical therapy for several months because of this, with ultrasound and exercises plus anti-inflammatory rx. By using the Control (left hand) Click (right hand) on the Mac, there is no way I can re-injure myself like that. so, i do not bemoan loss of some features when I compare how much pain and work I had to go through to get my right thumb back in service! For those of you who are developers, putting the context menus on the mac version with control click would be a very nice improvement, however. thanks for the welcome! carol ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] floating selection
Hi, On Tue, 2007-10-02 at 09:57 -0400, carol irvin wrote: The Mac doesn't have right click. Instead, you use with your left hand the control key and with your right the mouse bar on the macbook (or a left mouse button if you were using an actual mouse). I have used this on the floating layer and no context menu comes up. so i think that one limitation I have on the Gimp is that I have to use the menus. So I can go into the layer menu and make a new layer with that. You don't have to use right-click for that. The functionality is all available in the Image menu and if you really need to access the context menu in some other window, you can always access it by clicking on the little arrow in the upper right corner of the Tab. Sven ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
[Gimp-user] floating selection
When I go to crop something, Gimp crops it very nicely but, unlike, PS, the image is then impossible to do anything else with as I now have a floating layer. My instinctive response was to flatten and save but flatten was greyed out. Then I discovered this anchoring layer command and that has solved a lot of problems. Anchor, then flatten, then save is pretty good. This also seems to come into play when I cut and paste. The frustrating thing there is that I seem to be able to cut, paste and move once but they flatten into one image after I do that. I suspect I need to do something every time I do a paste that converts the paste into its own layer. PS does this automatically. So far this floating selection and the vagaries of cut-past and then move have been my major pitfalls but I think this is merely because they don't work like PS does when doing these tasks. I also can't use the text tool but that is because I need to do some reading about it and, again, it works very differently from PS's use of text tool. That something works differently from PS doesn't mean it is either better or worse than PS. It is just different and that means there is a learning curve on it. I would rather there be no learning curve but realistically that is not how software programs work. -- carol ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] floating selection
i'm on a Mac and I think my version operates a little differently from what most of you are using. It seems most of you are on Windows or Linux. Here's the download situation if you are on a Mac for Gimp: http://www.gimp.org/downloads/ This may tell you what I can and cannot do. carol On 9/29/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When I go to crop something, Gimp crops it very nicely but, unlike, PS, the image is then impossible to do anything else with as I now have a floating layer. Strange! When I do a Image-Crop, it just gives me a new image. using 2.2.13 Image-Crop to Selection in 2.4rc2 Owen -- carol ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] floating selection
On Sunday 30 September 2007 01:31:44 carol irvin wrote: I suspect I need to do something every time I do a paste that converts the paste into its own layer. Yah, New Layer. I'm sure that there's a keyboard shortcut for that, but the GIMP (along with a few other apps) is broken on this antique Celeron so I can't easily find out what it is. Cheers; Leon ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] floating selection
When I go to crop something, Gimp crops it very nicely but, unlike, PS, the image is then impossible to do anything else with as I now have a floating layer. Strange! When I do a Image-Crop, it just gives me a new image, using 2.2.13 Image-Crop to Selection in 2.4rc2 Owen ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
