On Sun, Oct 31, 1999 at 04:17:29PM +0100, Olof S Kylander wrote: > Hello > > Selections are the most important tool in image manipulations. The key in > Gimp is to select and so something with the selection. > > THATS why it's very important to be able to transform selections. Rotate, > shear, (i.e use the transform tool) on the selection it self. > > To day you must have a new empty layer --> make selection --> fill > selection --> transform selection --> anchor selection --> then alpha to > selection --> back to the layer you wanted to have the selection in. > > This is the only way to rotate, shear etc. the selection it self, this is > _not_ good. This is a task that artists makes every day. I hope we can do > something about it or to be more hard -->This must be changed before 1.2 > is out!! What if the manipulation of the selection would not float the thing inside the selection without the user explicitly telling so? In Photoshop there is a "Nudge Selection" feature, where you make a selection, and use the cursors to quickly [<-] [->], meaning you press a cursor key once, and then press the opposite direction once, that acts like "Float Selection" in Gimp. All transform stuff affects the selection only, unless you "nudge" first. I dont know if this very hard to implement, but I agree with Olof here that it would be a Good Thing. On the other hand, is it still more confusing to new users that want to draw colored rectangles and ellipses with the selection tools? :) What do YOU think? :) Tuomas -- .---( t i g e r t @ g i m p . o r g )---. | some stuff at http://tigert.gimp.org/ | `---------------------------------------'
