10-30-2016, 02:09 PM
For Beginners to Gimp, a look at the selection tools and briefly how they work.
To keep these demonstration videos to a sensible length, the subject is split into three parts.
Do not like videos? then the Gimp manual references are
Chapter 14 starting https://docs.gimp.org/en/gimp-tools-selection.html
Chapter 7 starting https://docs.gimp.org/en/gimp-using-selections.html
1. The various selection tools, plenty of them, rectangle, elliptical, free-select, fuzzy, color, scissors, foreground and quickmask.
2. Modifying a selection with the selection modes and Selection Menu options.
3. Selections and the transform tools: move, rotate, scale...etc.
To keep these demonstration videos to a sensible length, the subject is split into three parts.
Do not like videos? then the Gimp manual references are
Chapter 14 starting https://docs.gimp.org/en/gimp-tools-selection.html
Chapter 7 starting https://docs.gimp.org/en/gimp-using-selections.html
1. The various selection tools, plenty of them, rectangle, elliptical, free-select, fuzzy, color, scissors, foreground and quickmask.
2. Modifying a selection with the selection modes and Selection Menu options.
3. Selections and the transform tools: move, rotate, scale...etc.