Before delete a selection, it has to be complete. To delete a selection you can click anywhere outside of the selection, or open the menu Select → None or use the shortcut Ctrl+Shift+A on your You have to press Ctrl or Shift buttons only after you start drawing the selection. These are the shortcuts for addition and subtraction of selections, that are a little more advanced usage of Gimp selections, so we will see them in the second part of the tutorial. When you draw a square or a circle, the Gimp selection will start from the center.Īttention, because the Shift and Ctrl button, if pressed before starting to draw the selection, will have a completely different effect. If you press the Ctrl button on the keyboard To make it "snap" to a particular aspect ratio (perfect square, perfect circle or a 30°/45° angle degree, depending on the tool). After you have begin to draw the selection you can hold the keyboard button Shift Standard properties of Gimp selection toolsīefore going to explain each Gimp selection tool and its usage, let's see some standard properties:Įach Gimp selection tool can be drawn with left mouse button, generally held down. The example of the piece of paper is not perfect, because borders of a selection could also be "feathered", it means that they could be both defined or blurred, but it should give you an idea of what I mean. After that, any change you will do, will affect only So if you want to work only on a part of a picture you have to choose a Gimp selection tool, and draw a mask over the picture. Selections of any shape, you have to use a selection tool. In Gimp the piece of paper with the cutted triangle is called a selection.
Once the paper is removed, you will see that the sprayed color will be shaped as a triangle. If you place the piece of paper over a table, and you spray over the cutted triangle, Imagine to have a spray can, and a sheet of paper with a triangle shape cutted out in the middle. Selected part of an image or create a copy of only a portion of the photograph.
The Gimp selection tools, allow you to work only on a part of the whole picture, so you will be able to make selective corrections, modify only the What are the Gimp selection tools used to? This tutorial has been written for beginner users who don't even know what a selection tool is, or don't know what the selections are used for. Selections, also known as masks,Īre extremely important, and we'll see how to use or combine all the different Gimp's selections to create any shape of mask you could need. In this tutorial we will explain all the difference between all the selection tools of Gimp. Gimp tutorial: selection Tools In this tutorial we'll see which are the different Gimp's selection tools and how to use them to create different shapes selections.
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