On Mon, 25 Oct 2004, Gezim Hoxha wrote: > Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2004 13:36:47 -0700 (PDT) > From: Gezim Hoxha <hgezim@xxxxxxxxx> > To: iriXx@xxxxxxxxx, gimp dev <gimp-developer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Subject: Re: [Gimp-developer] first impressions of GIMP 2.0 > > One of the tools that I absolutely love is the > "dynamic" shortcut tool. If you set this in the > preferences, then go to one menu highlight a tool then > just press a letter, this letter will become the new > shortcut of the tool and it's sweet :) (I should say > that it took a while to discover this nice thing). > > And I haven't really used photoshop since 5.5 and the > other day I see this guy makes a selection and then > the selection gets some handles on it...he just drags > the handles and makes it how big he wants it to > be....that was really amazing to see, had never seen > it before...so if gimp were to implement this I would > love it. Try the scale tool in the toolbox, it allows you to do something very close to what you are describing. (In Gimp 2 it is between the rotate tool and the shear tool, I find the icons confusingly similar but look carefully and you will see it is available). - Alan H.