[Gimp-user] Move a portion of an image
Rich, That last procedure works nicely. I greatly appreciate the detailed help and also the photos and the video that you were so generous to provide. It has taken me a few days to reply to your last post, since I have been distracted by other things and trying to understand why things work the way they do in Gimp. The first time I followed your procedure, I thought it worked exactly like your video. Since then when I have repeated it, I am left with a transparent area where the removed area of the letter used to be. (I have just recently learned how to add a layer containing the background color and flatten the layers, so this is not a problem.) It appears that your procedure works exactly as in the video when the image is from a .JPG file, but when the image is from a .XCF file it leaves a transparent area. I still do not understand why the first procedure you gave me does not work. I am interested in it because I had a similar problem with the intuitive procedure I was trying to use before I asked for help. Specifically I would like to understand why it would lock up so that I was not able to do anything in the image area. Maybe there is not a simple answer to that question. If not then I need to make sure I do not lose the link to this topic so I can come back to it and have the exact procedure, in case I have a problem like this in the future. I cannot thank you enough for your help. Lloyd -- LloydEwing (via www.gimpusers.com/forums) ___ gimp-user-list mailing list List address:gimp-user-list@gnome.org List membership: https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user-list List archives: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gimp-user-list
[Gimp-user] Move a portion of an image
Rich, Thanks for the detailed reply. The grey area of the selected item was left after I used cut to remove the figure that I wanted to move. Your procedure using copy instead of cut works for me up to step 4, but then I cannot find a way to remove the original figure that I have copied. Paint and bucket fill have no affect, and when I move the pointer to the image it shows a little circle with a backslash to indicate that those functions are not allowed. 'fill whole selection' is enabled. I am attaching two screen images. One shows the original image that I need to change so the letter E will be evenly spaced with the rest of the letters. (I am trying to create a logo for a community radio station.) The other image shows the letter E after it has been copied and I cannot find a way to remove it at the original location. Attachments: * http://www.gimpusers.com/system/attachments/499/original/BeforeImage2017-03-05_081352.jpg * http://www.gimpusers.com/system/attachments/500/original/Step4PastedToNewLayerAndUnableToRemove-2017-03-05_082841.jpg -- LloydEwing (via www.gimpusers.com/forums) ___ gimp-user-list mailing list List address:gimp-user-list@gnome.org List membership: https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user-list List archives: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gimp-user-list
[Gimp-user] Move a portion of an image
I need to move a selected part of an image in relation to the rest of the image. I have spent several hours reading forum posts and trying various things, and I still cannot find a way to do this. The portion I need to move is a line drawing and I can select it and move the selected area, but I cannot find a way to make the new location of the selected area appear on the drawing. The lines in the drawing are several pixels wide. The only practical way I have found to select the area to move is by using fuzzy select to make an outline of the lines I need to move, and that seems to work well enough. Holding down the Ctrl and Alt keys allows me to move the selected area, but it leaves behind a grey copy of the selected area. The selected area cannot be removed by clicking -> Select -> None. I tried using the Bucket Fill tool to put the foreground color in the new selected area but that does not seem to have any affect. I hope someone can help. Thanks very much, Lloyd -- LloydEwing (via www.gimpusers.com/forums) ___ gimp-user-list mailing list List address:gimp-user-list@gnome.org List membership: https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user-list List archives: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gimp-user-list
