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Selection
#1
God, I just wasted time all over again signing up for this.
http://gimpforums.com/thread-selection--57412

Just wondering if there's some way to make whatever of the selection that goes out the boundary come in the other side. From here I can see four potential ways of doing that:

1: There's already a tool that does that
2: Use a random tool that crops the selection to whatever's out the boundary for some reason
3: The long way. Which I'm doing right now. It's kinda difficult to get the accuracy without taking a while. I just cut part of the object, paste it on the other side, align it on the edge where I want, get the first piece, get it on the same position of the axis perpendicular to the edge the cut piece is on to the cut piece and put it on the other side. Oh, also, I can't get anything past the edge, or it's gone.
4: Use a feature that doesn't delete whatever's out the boundary once it's unselected, and then one that can select whatever is.

Mostly what makes stuff difficult is how complicated the selection tool is. If this was Microsoft Paint I could just do it super fast without worrying about all the controls. But basically it just takes a while anyway in general.
By the way if it wasn't obvious already, I want to do a tiling. Bye.

P.S. The reason I signed up was to make this post. So don't care about my user.
Oh, yeah, I'm gonna search the forums in case there's already an answer.
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#2
Quote:By the way if it wasn't obvious already, I want to do a tiling

Making seamless tiles? A couple of things to try. Usual caveat all depends on the image.

I put stages on single images, for (my) convenience.

screenshots 1 to 3 https://i.imgur.com/ugZJ3SO.jpg

1. Duplicate the layer and apply Layer -> Transform -> Offset Various presets there but using a narrow offset X and Y

2. A bit of erasing, blending in the center, avoiding the edges for a seamless tile.

3. Will tile as shown.

There is a Gimp filter which automates that using X/2, Y/2 Filters -> Map -> Tile Seamless

4 & 5 https://i.imgur.com/ohvh1ZV.jpg

4. No settings, just apply it.

5. Tiles as shown.

Another plugin but very much depends on the image is Resynthesizer, but that one has to be installed. More use with random-ish patterns.

Post an example and get some comments.
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#3
Gimp 2.10 has a Tiling mode in the Symmetry painting. Typically you create a larger image (about 3x the tile size), set the tiling size, paint you design, and then crop to any rectangle of the tile size.
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#4
Nevermind I already did it.
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