how to turn off feathering when I "free select"

[catteau]

I am trying to use free select.  When I do this, it seems that it is always feathering my selection, and I can't figure out how to prevent that.  

I'm attaching two images - I hope you can see them.  The first shows a somewhat random free selection, and you can see that the area selected is substantially within the area I chose, and it is rounded rather than having the jagged edges of my selection.  

The second is from clicking "select - feather," and you can see that feathering was set to 0.00, but the selection is still substantially feathered.

This has happened to me before in and somehow I managed to turn it off, but now I can't figure out how.  Did I accidentally select something that set it to do this?  It's very frustrating!!!  I'm trying to do some picky editing of this image and I can't do it unless I can correctly free select the details to change.  I was really delighted when I figured out, a few days ago, quite by accident, that I could free select an area and then when I used "paint clone" it would only paint within the selected area.  But now it doesn't work because it won't let me actually select the area I want to modify.

I hope someone can help!

[PixLab]

Select the Free Select Tool then untick Feather Edges in the Tool Options tab and/or put the Radius at 0.0

   

[catteau]

(03-07-2022, 04:23 AM)PixLab Wrote: Select the Free Select Tool then untick Feather Edges in the Tool Options tab and/or put the Radius at 0.0

Thank you!!! 

Is there a way to get it to save that selection as the default?

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(03-07-2022, 04:23 AM)PixLab Wrote: Select the Free Select Tool then untick Feather Edges in the Tool Options tab and/or put the Radius at 0.0

Okay, that worked once.  Maybe even twice.  I created an area with "select free" and filled it with a pattern.  I changed the shape of the selected area with "scale," and anchored the new version.

But then I went to create a new little area to eliminate a bit of the new shape left over from after I modified its shape, and it doesn't work again.  I have it set so the feathering radius is 0.0, and feather is also off.  (You can see that in the attached file.)  I selected an area with "select free."  It selected properly, and didn't feather the selected area, as the file shows.

But then I choose "paint - clone" and the area I had selected simply disappears.  If I click on the "select" menu item, it doesn't show that anything is selected (i.e. no option to invert selection, or anything else that would suggest it thinks anything is selected).

Before, it did that if I selected an area smaller than the feathering radius - i.e. the whole area was eliminated due to the feathering, and if I tried with a much larger area than I wanted, I got the rounded version.  Now feathering is off AND before I turned it off I set the radius to 0, and the area simply disappears. When I try again with a much larger area, it also disappears.

There is only one layer in the image, so it's not some problem of the selected region being on a different layer.  

I hope you can help again!

[PixLab]

Set up your Free Select Tool then go to Edit ➤ Preferences a new window opens, at Tool Options click on Save Tools Now, then OK at the bottom of that window.
This should keep your tools options (re-start GIMP to see if it works, it should keep your free select with the new setting).
(red arrow = to do first)

   

[rich2005]

I do not follow some of that. Paint-clone vanishing selection for example.

Instead of using the free select tool.

If you want a selection that has no feathering then use the Quick Mask to paint in the selection see: https://docs.gimp.org/en/gimp-image-wind...utton.html

With qmask active. Use the pencil tool (which has hard edges) White Foreground colour. Paint in the selection. https://i.imgur.com/XO1VGD4.jpg
Toggle quick mask off, leaving the selection. Copy / paste as required. https://i.imgur.com/fHI6wJD.jpg

[catteau]

(03-07-2022, 08:42 AM)rich2005 Wrote: I do not follow some of that. Paint-clone vanishing selection for example.

Instead of using the free select tool.

If you want a selection that has no feathering then use the Quick Mask to paint in the selection see: https://docs.gimp.org/en/gimp-image-wind...utton.html

With qmask active. Use the pencil tool (which has hard edges) White Foreground colour. Paint in the selection.  https://i.imgur.com/XO1VGD4.jpg
Toggle quick mask off, leaving the selection. Copy / paste as required. https://i.imgur.com/fHI6wJD.jpg

Thank you very much for your reply, I really appreciate you folks helping!  I'll check out using quick mask.

I think I've figured out why the cloned area disappeared.  It was minor - I didn't realize that the entire image was already selected before I selected the smaller area, so the second selection actually never was selected.  I need to first "select none" and then select the new area.

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(03-07-2022, 07:17 AM)PixLab Wrote: Set up your Free Select Tool then go to Edit ➤ Preferences a new window opens, at Tool Options click on Save Tools Now, then OK at the bottom of that window.
This should keep your tools options (re-start GIMP to see if it works, it should keep your free select with the new setting).
(red arrow = to do first)

Thank you again, I really appreciate your help!  That worked.

And I sorted out the problem with the selected area disappearing.