On Wed, 6 Dec 2000, Austin Donnelly wrote: > ... > Probably the easiest way would be to use select by colour, but that > would catch other stuff that was a similar colour. > Could change "Select by Colour" to only select pixels within the current selection if there is one, or the entire image (or layer) if there isn't an active selection. > With this, you could lasso the general area the text is in, then go > <Image>/Selection/Tighten to get just your text. > That would certainly be a very useful tool. -Dave