[Gimp-user] Move a portion of an image

2017-03-13 Thread rich2005
>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

[Gimp-user] Move a portion of an image

2017-03-13 Thread LloydEwing
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

[Gimp-user] Move a portion of an image

2017-03-05 Thread rich2005
I made hard work of that. You can cut a select operation out, by fuzzy select the inside of the E and grow by say 3 pixels. However a better way is to find the font used: er-kurier-1251-bold-italic Generate paths from the characters. Adjust the paths. Then you can Select -> Path to Selection

[Gimp-user] Move a portion of an image

2017-03-05 Thread rich2005
>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.

[Gimp-user] Move a portion of an image

2017-03-05 Thread LloydEwing
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

[Gimp-user] Move a portion of an image

2017-03-05 Thread rich2005
>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,

[Gimp-user] Move a portion of an image

2017-03-05 Thread LloydEwing
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