09-30-2017, 05:51 PM
Sorry, still do not get it.
You made a selection in another image, copied that, then pasted into your working image. Then what? as a new layer? Probably has to be since:-
Does that mean that all you want is the shape of the selection from the other image without the contents. There are ways of transferring that without the contents.
On the face of it, that is a straight copy / paste as my previous example.
Any chance of a screenshot showing the whole Gimp interface, especially the layers dialogue, something like the one I posted.
You made a selection in another image, copied that, then pasted into your working image. Then what? as a new layer? Probably has to be since:-
Quote:I then edited the triangle in the new image so it was completely transparent, and placed it over the section it is currently in.
Does that mean that all you want is the shape of the selection from the other image without the contents. There are ways of transferring that without the contents.
Quote:I want to clone the data underneath the transparent triangle into the triangle so it has the same colour/grain/texture etc, so that i can then move the triangle to another location in the image.
On the face of it, that is a straight copy / paste as my previous example.
Any chance of a screenshot showing the whole Gimp interface, especially the layers dialogue, something like the one I posted.