Original message below. I see a good feature recommendation here. Sliders for fuzzy selection in the select Tool Options dialogs. I think it would be useful. On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 2:34 PM, SirCrow <forums@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hello. I've tried using GIMP many times, yet I've accomplished very > little, > given all of GIMP's functionality. For example: > > If I want to select part of an image and copy it to another area or to a > new > image/layer, and also FEATHER the edges, here's how I'd do it in an old > graphics > app I often used years ago: > > 1. Select the area. > 2. Hold Ctrl while moving selection with Move tool. > 3. Use the slider to soften the edges to my liking. > 4. Press Enter to anchor selection. Done. > > And there were sliders also for opacity and other things. So very SIMPLE > because the prog. was designed very intuitively. How would I accomplish > the > same in GIMP? Well, most of the time, I WOULD ACCOMPLISH NOTHING! At > best, I'd > enter values into the box, not like the result, enter new values, repeat. > And > that's on a good day. > > PLEASE, I beg you, somebody write a SCRIPT/PLUGIN that allows the use of > sliders > exactly as described above! I desperately want to be a HAPPY GIMP user, > but I'm > growing ever more hopeless. I don't want to turn on my older PC just to > use a > graphics app that actually lets me get things done. Thank you. > > Joe > > -- > SirCrow (via www.gimpusers.com/forums) > _______________________________________________ > gimp-user-list mailing list > List address: gimp-user-list@xxxxxxxxx > List membership: https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user-list > _______________________________________________ gimp-developer-list mailing list List address: gimp-developer-list@xxxxxxxxx List membership: https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer-list List archives: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gimp-developer-list
