01-14-2024, 07:06 PM
(This post was last modified: 01-14-2024, 07:13 PM by SteveNewcomb.)
(01-14-2024, 05:55 PM)Ofnuts Wrote:(01-14-2024, 02:41 PM)SteveNewcomb Wrote: This was a show-stopper for me. The advice above did not help.
The answer turned out to be a bogus saved tool option of some kind. Here's what worked:
(1) Edit->Preferences->Tool Options->Reset Saved Tool Options To Default Values
(2) Restart gimp.
Actually Blighty's post #3 is the real answer. Your action has just reset the Selection tool to Replace mode which is its default.
if you want Gimp to always start with known options: see here.
Ofnuts Wrote:
Actually Blighty's post #3 is the real answer.
No. The "real" answer did not work. Even with the "real" answer I could not escape subtract mode, period, nor could I find a way to escape it. It was horrible to discard all tool options and restart.
What I'm hoping is that someone might explain how I *should* have escaped from an endless succession of dialog boxes complaining that you can't subtract from nothing. The method I found is still the only method I know, but I doubt it's the only way.