Re: [Gimp-user] select region inside a rectangle

2009-02-02 Thread Nathan Lane
The GIMP Select tools have several modes including an additive mode which
allows you to add a selection area to your current selection area, a
difference mode which allows you to select the difference of two selections
or subtract an area from a current selection (which sounds kind of like what
you want, and an intersection mode, which allows to to make one selection,
then using the select tool, select an intersecting area and take the
intersection of the two selections as the final selection (which also may be
what you're looking for).

Nathan

On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 7:22 AM, Adrian Dusa  wrote:

>  Dear all,
>
> I'm a Gimp newbie, using it for a long time but at an amateur level.
>
> I have the following (hopefully simple) problem: given two rectangles with
> a common border, is there a way to select the region *inside* one rectangle
> (to fill it with another color), without affecting the contents of the other
> rectangle?
>
> I attached a .png file just for illustration, I hope attachments are
> allowed.
>
> The problem is of course simplified, in the real problem I have different
> shapes for each rectangle (but still with comon borders, like in maps).
>
> Thanks for any hint,
>
> Adrian
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Re: [Gimp-user] select region inside a rectangle

2009-02-02 Thread Claus Cyrny
Hi Adrian,

Adrian Dusa wrote:
> Dear all,
> 
> I'm a Gimp newbie, using it for a long time but at an amateur level.
> 
> I have the following (hopefully simple) problem: given two rectangles 
> with a common border, is there a way to select the region *inside* one 
> rectangle (to fill it with another color), without affecting the 
> contents of the other rectangle?
> 
> I attached a .png file just for illustration, I hope attachments are 
> allowed.
> 
> The problem is of course simplified, in the real problem I have 
> different shapes for each rectangle (but still with comon borders, like 
> in maps).

One way to accomplish this would be, to use the magic wand with
the default setting. This implies that the background has just
one color: otherwise, you would have to increase the threshold.

HTH,

Claus


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