On Wednesday 05 December 2007, Chuckk Hubbard wrote: > On Dec 5, 2007 2:16 PM, Dave Phillips <dlphillips@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Greetings: > > > > Is it possible for the Gimp to be more obtuse ?! > > I'm sure it is, but I can't see how. It's a user friendly applications, as opposed to a beginner friendly application. Frustrating at first, but I'd rather have that than an application that's constantly awkward and backwards, just to help beginners get started. > My GIMP frustration is when pasting into an existing picture; I get > a new layer, and I can't do anything until I anchor it. You can move it around, and most tools (color, transforms, filters etc) will operate on the Floating Selection as if it was a normal layer. > When I anchor it, the layer and any selection involved with it > disappear. Right; you could think of anchoring as *actually* pasting it - and it's pasted into the layer that was previously selected. If you want to keep it as a separate layer, right click on it in the Layers pane and select "New Layer..." Note that the new layer will only be as large as the pasted selection! You can use "Layer Boundary Size..." or "Layer to Image Size" to change that at any time. And well... I'll stop here, before it becomes yet another GIMP tutorial too long for people to actually read. ;-) //David Olofson - Programmer, Composer, Open Source Advocate .------- http://olofson.net - Games, SDL examples -------. | http://zeespace.net - 2.5D rendering engine | | http://audiality.org - Music/audio engine | | http://eel.olofson.net - Real time scripting | '-- http://www.reologica.se - Rheology instrumentation --' _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
