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How do I load a selection from a channel? - gib65 - 05-15-2021
Hello,
I recent created a very complex selection. Then I saved the selection to channel. My selection then disappeared. I don't know how to get it back.
I assumed that this is my saved selection:
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But I'm not sure what to do to load the selection into the image. Right-clicking on the selection gives me this context menu:
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The most obvious item is "Channel to Selection" but that did nothing.
How do I get my selection back? Thanks.
RE: How do I load a selection from a channel? - denzjos - 05-15-2021
Maybe this can help you :
https://daviesmediadesign.com/how-to-save-selections-in-gimp/
https://www.google.com/search?client=opera&q=davis+gim+save+selection&sourceid=opera&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8#kpvalbx=_a3ufYKCwBP6TjLsPsKC4kAs39
RE: How do I load a selection from a channel? - rich2005 - 05-15-2021
Looks to me like any selection you might have made is gone. Any significant selection-to-channel would show, even a very large selection would show some details. I think somewhere along the line a 'select-all' was made. Can the channel info go in a save. Tried this example in various formats .xcf / xcf.bz2 / with and without better compression checked. All keep the channel info.
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In pictures, bottom to top.
A very obvious selection
A tiny selection
The tiny selection inverted, equivalent to nearly all of the image selected.
A select-all giving that white channel you show in your screenshot.
Edit: Closer look at your first screenshot and there could be something there. (or it might be screenshot artifacts)
After making a channel to selection check that View -> Show Selection is enabled.
Going back into the layers dock and with layer active try the quickmask Select -> Toggle Quck Mask (shift -Q) it might show any 'faint selection'
RE: How do I load a selection from a channel? - gib65 - 05-18-2021
Thank you both,
I tried out this guide: https://daviesmediadesign.com/how-to-sav...s-in-gimp/ <-- And that did the trick. Thanks
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