10-07-2019, 01:00 PM
(10-07-2019, 06:32 AM)Ofnuts Wrote: When you want to make a half-circle along one of the canvas edges, you have to create a circular selection that extends outside the canvas.
I haven't needed that capability yet but that makes perfect sense of course.
(10-07-2019, 06:32 AM)Ofnuts Wrote: The selection is clipped to the canvas anyway.
Indeed, but the handles aren't. As I said before, it's a small thing, but one that I have noticed for years and wished I could change the behavior for my workflow. After more thought I think it should constrain by default and have an option to Allow Growing like the crop tool. A key modifier might be nice but I doubt there are many modifiers left for the selection tool.
(10-07-2019, 06:32 AM)Ofnuts Wrote: You can use View>Snap to canvas edges
I always have that set but you still have to get within a few pixels of the edges for it to work. If you are zoomed way out, this can be difficult to get right.
I did some digging and found this reference where this is a problem for a different reason. It's not my use case but another instance where an option to constrain would be be beneficial. I wasn't sure if this was something worthy of a feature request which is the reason a posted in the first place. I'm still not sure, but I have a better picture of it all now.
Thanks!