Re: [Gimp-user] floating selection--how it arose

2007-10-04 Thread Greg
--- carol irvin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The way I cropped was to use the horizontal selection marquee tool > and then pressed Image>Crop 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 pal

Re: [Gimp-user] floating selection

2007-10-02 Thread Sven Neumann
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 float

Re: [Gimp-user] floating selection

2007-10-02 Thread carol irvin
<> 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 limitat

Re: [Gimp-user] floating selection

2007-10-02 Thread Michael Schumacher
> 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

Re: [Gimp-user] floating selection

2007-10-01 Thread Greg
--- carol irvin <[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. Interesting. Does this happen with GIMP's file format and/or others? I was cropping an

Re: [Gimp-user] floating selection

2007-09-29 Thread carol irvin
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

Re: [Gimp-user] floating selection

2007-09-29 Thread rcook
> 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 __

Re: [Gimp-user] floating selection

2007-09-29 Thread Leon Brooks GIMP
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