Maybe you have faded edges activated in your selection? (Screenshot in german, sorry)

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Am 29.12.19 um 15:09 schrieb Toriningen:

Maybe you have faded edges activated in your selection? (Screenshot in german, sorry)

Attachments: * https://www.gimpusers.com/system/attachments/1310/original/fade.jpg

No, I checked out those options already. One of those are on.

Maybe add a screenshot of the selection options?

"One of those are on" in your message is likely a typo, but might turn out to be correct in retrospect.

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On 12/3/19 11:21 AM, Toriningen wrote:

So I am lost here, I have no idea what is happening when I select stuff and do cuts or pastes it seems to feather the edges instead of doing a hard cut.

Also when I select an area to paint in, it lets me paint OVER the selection, again in a feather manner. I cannot for the life of me find the option to stop this.

Attached to this post is an image of what is happening

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As said by others, likely due to a "feathered" selection.

Note that the "marching ants" are not the absolute limit of the selection. They indicate the 50% selection point, so if you have a feathering, the feathering extends on both sides (but in your case it is much mess visible on the blue side, especially of you did two strokes or more).

On Tue, 2019-12-03 at 11:21 +0100, Toriningen wrote:

So I am lost here, I have no idea what is happening when I select stuff and do
cuts or pastes it seems to feather the edges instead of doing a hard cut.

Check "tool options" for the tool you used to make the selection; if "Feather" is checked, with a number showing under it, uncheck "feather".

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I do not have feathered on and this problem just randomly keeps happening.

Here are my options, these do not change.

Looking at the image in the first post, seems a high degree of magnification showing pixel boundaries.

From that last screenshot of the tool options, antialising is enabled. So you get semi-transparent pixels. Turn it off for a hard edge

Same with painting, the brush tool introduces antialising, use the pencil tool for hard edges.

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* https://www.gimpusers.com/system/attachments/1348/original/antialising.jpg

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