Am 20.11.2005 um 19:51 schrieb Remus Boara:

Hi everybody,

I would be a very happy GIMP user only if you could let me know how can be transformed an image selection or other object's selection.

what would you like to transform the selection into? There are possibilities to transform them into masks and paths in GIMP??

Also, some quick questions: cannot find anywhere info about how a GIMP layer can be locked or if the layers can be organized into directories or some other way?

As far as I know there is no way to organize layers in a tree structure neither can you lock them in GIMP right now.

But may be I'm wrong?

Greetings,

lexA

Thanks a lot.

On Sunday 20 November 2005 05:32 pm, Remus Boara wrote:

thanks a lot for the answer, very appreciated. regarding the selection transforming was actually referring on how to edit / modify / adjust a selection?

Once a selection is made it is treated internally as raster data - that means it is impossible to, say, increase an elliptical selection radius after it is ready (but people are working out a way tot hat with rectangular selections).

But all transform tools (move, scale, rotate, perspective, etc...) have mmodes to operate on the selection. Just select one of the transform tools, and on the tool options dialog, pick the "work on selection" (second icon on the top of the dialog).

With most tools, the "work on selection" mode can also be achieved by holding ALT while clicking - but "ALT + click" is normally used by Window Managers, so the combination often doesn't work.

JS ->

Am 20.11.2005 um 20:49 schrieb Remus Boara:

thanks a lot... i downloaded the manual it should be fine. I'm really sorry for my persistence but just found another thing that worries me:

no problem - asking questions and answering them is exactly was this list is for.

if i have a group of graphics, how can i move them across the canvas all together? i'm talking about lots of layers that needs to be located on some other place on the same window without merging them into a single one.

there is a command Layer->Transform->Align visible layers which does what I think you want to do.

thanks a million...

if i'm allowed i might be back with some other questions... i'm working on the "big switch" from win/photoshop :)

don't hesitate to ask

lexA

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On Sunday 20 November 2005 05:49 pm, Remus Boara wrote:

thanks a lot... i downloaded the manual it should be fine. I'm really sorry for my persistence but just found another thing that worries me:

if i have a group of graphics, how can i move them across the canvas all together? i'm talking about lots of layers that needs to be located on some other place on the same window without merging them into a single one.

Although there are no layer groups or trees in the GIMP, you can have a single layer group, formed by "linked layers". To link a layer, you just click on the layer dialog next to the visibility ?(eye) icon - a chain link will appear to indicate it is linked. Whenever you perform a transform - move, scale, etc..., it is performed in all linked layers.

To move another group of layers, you have to unlink all the previous, and link all layers of the set you want to move.

JS ->

thanks a million...

if i'm allowed i might be back with some other questions... i'm working on the "big switch" from win/photoshop :)

Greetings, lexA

thanks a lot.

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