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TJ
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nigel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, July 11, 2000 5:35 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Alex Harford; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Two How-to Questions
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> Try using the bezier tool to draw your path instead of a pencil
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Andrew J Fortune" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "Alex Harford" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Wednesday, July 12, 2000 9:04 AM
> Subject: RE: Two How-to Questions
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> >
> > Alex,
> >
> > No, that is not what I want (at least I dont think so....I am not sure
> what
> > you mean by Free Select tool). What you have suggested makes a selection
> of
> > the boundary itself, but I want to be able to select the area inside the
> > boundary.
> >
> > Consider the GFig function again. You draw a shape in GFig, with the
> > settings on the Paint tab set to "Draw on New" and "Using
> selection". Then
> > when you click the Paint button, it draws a selection in the shape that
> you
> > drew in GFig. It is this functionality that I want, but I don't
> necessarily
> > want to use GFig. In other words, you use the pencil tool to
> draw a closed
> > path and then you obtain a selection using that path.
> >
> > Hope that clarifies things. Its a very simple request but difficult and
> > confusing to describe.
> >
> > Thanks again for your help.
> >
> > regards,
> > Andrew
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of
> > Alex Harford
> > Sent: Wednesday, 12 July 2000 2:07 AM
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: Re: Two How-to Questions
> >
> >
> > Andrew J Fortune wrote:
> > >
> > > Alex.
> > >
> > > Thanks for replying. I'm not sure how to reword the first
> question - so
> > I'll
> > > try to give an example....
> > >
> > > Suppose you select the pencil tool, go into GFig and draw a geometric
> star
> > > and then press the Paint button to draw it on the canvas of
> the current
> > > file.....you have created a closed "path" in the shape of a star....
> > >
> > > How do you then turn that into a selection so that any operations that
> you
> > > perform after that is constrained to the boundaries of the
> star that you
> > > have drawn ?
> > >
> > > Note that this is only an example - I am looking for a
> generic solution
> > that
> > > would apply to any closed path that you draw on the canvas.
> >
> > Aha... then you would be talking about Paths being automatically
> > created, something that isn't implemented yet. Care to do some coding?
> > :) I would do what Ian wrote, use the Fuzzy Select tool (similar to the
> > Magic Wand) to get the outline, and then used the Free Select tool with
> > the Shift key to add the two selections together.
> >
> > Alex Harford
> > Author of "GIMP Essential Reference"
> > http://www.dowco.com/~alexh
> >
>
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