Hello.

I am wondering why I can't get the fuzzy select tool to antialias my selected image borders. I have tried with The Gimp 2.2.12 and 2.3.9 and the result is the same. The antialias tool works fine with Rect Select and Ellipse select. Maybe I am doing something wrong. Any help would be very appreciated, or else I have to do some manual antialiasing : (.

What I do:
1) Select a plain black aliased figure on a white background with fuzzy select, with antialiasing switched on. 2) press ctrl + c and then ctrl + v. 3) Move the copied image to another location. 4) It has not been antialiased.
5) I wonder my brains out.

If I do the same with ellipse selection, it works fine, and the ellipse shaped image is antialiased. Is it a bug?? I have searched on aliasing and fuzzy selection on google for a long time now... without any luck.

I am running it on windows xp pro.

Thank you.

Regards.

Grzegorz, student in logistics

On 8/22/06, Olivier Ripoll wrote:

Try increasing the threshold. The tool will select the region according to the colour of the clicked pixel + the ones that are close (in terms of colour). Antialiased pixels in your case (black on white) are grey, and the tool will only select the dark grey ones if your threshold is too low. It will look like antialiasing is gone. You can also change the threshold by dragging the tool while selecting.

Yes, but in my case, the shape is not antialiased, it's plain black. I wan't to select it, and copy it down (antialiased) on another background. I thought the use of the fuzzy tool was the way out, since I don't get how to install (compile) the antialias tool available on the internet.

But I agree that it looks like there is a bug there. The antialias option does not have any effect (I have the same effect with or without it).

Okay, then it's not just me ;), I wil try to report this bug via gimp.org.

Thank you.

Grzegorz

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On 8/21/06, Grzegorz Nowak wrote:

Hello.

I am wondering why I can't get the fuzzy select tool to antialias my selected image borders. I have tried with The Gimp 2.2.12 and 2.3.9 and the result is the same. The antialias tool works fine with Rect Select and Ellipse select. Maybe I am doing something wrong. Any help would be very appreciated, or else I have to do some manual antialiasing : (.

What I do:
1) Select a plain black aliased figure on a white background with fuzzy select, with antialiasing switched on. 2) press ctrl + c and then ctrl + v. 3) Move the copied image to another location. 4) It has not been antialiased.
5) I wonder my brains out.

If I do the same with ellipse selection, it works fine, and the ellipse shaped image is antialiased. Is it a bug?? I have searched on aliasing and fuzzy selection on google for a long time now... without any luck.

I reported the bug, and got this answer: **
------- Comment #1 from Michael Schumacher 2006-08-22 09:19 UTC ------- The antialias setting is for the selection mask, and it works as expected here. Activating this setting won't magically antialias the selection content, as you seem to expect.

IMO this is NOTABUG. **

I don't get it, how should I select a shape and then antialias it on another background??

Thank you and regards

Grzegorz

On 8/23/06, graffoo wrote:

When you select something, go to Selet>To path and then right click the path in path tab and select Path to selection. Voila - antialiased selection ;) But I'm not sure if the function "Selection to path" is in v2.2 coz I'm using v2.3.9

Okay thank you, this also works in 2.2 but the quality of the antialiasing is quite poor. The result can bee seen here: http://grn.dk/up/gimp/logotest02.png

It is not as good as how it supposed to look like: http://grn.dk/up/gimp/logo.png

I don't brake any copyrights, I own and run www.webdrive.dk.

Best regards

Grzegorz

On 8/24/06, graffoo wrote:

Just noticed that when you have something selected, switch to the paths tab and Shift+Click on the Selection to Path button - you will see a bunch of options, try to play with them...

Thank you for all the input, and sorry for the late reply..

The shift+click on the selection to path button didn't improve my results. I found that the only way to get good anti aliasing (AA) is to use the selection to path, and then adjust the path manually. So i am probably left without a automatic AA tool...?

I have also tried the quick mask and then blur. The result is OK, but i think it lacks the quality of AA, because it does not mix/blend the pixels on sharp edges totally to the background, like AA would do. I had no luck with enhance despeckle..

Cheers

Grzegorz