I am a new user, but I know exactly what I need from GIMP. I tested out my workflow from start to finish the other day, and while most of my flubs were from inexperience, a lost a lot of time to trying to move selections around. I did some research and found that many others share similar frustrations with how unintuitive the move tool is in this regard. Is there any talk of redesigning it?
I also encountered another problem with the feature that I did not see addressed anywhere else, which may be actually a bug. So what I use it for (and have with great ease and efficiency in Photoshop) is in "hand" lettering my comics - basically, I will write out the contents of the word balloons in a template file, copy and paste them into my pages, and fine-tune their placement. These wind up being hand-written letters on transparent layers. The dimensions of these layers are much smaller than that of the page itself. However, I usually need to move individual words or lines of text around once I've pasted it on top of the word balloon, and I've found that I cannot move the selection/floating layer beyond the borders of the original layer. In fact, it disappears, functioning like a mask. I know the current solution is to copy/paste the selection content into a new layer, but that seems excessive, given that sometimes I have to move dozens of words or lines around on any given page, and sometimes by only a few pixels, especially in the case of tweaking the spacing between individual letters. So my two questions are as follows, I guess: 1. Is it at all possible to just click and drag selections? Why is it necessary to hold down ctrl+alt to accomplish this? 2. Is the masking behavior of floating layers a bug or a feature? Either or, it needs fixing. Or at the very least a toggle, because I can't imagine a single instance where that would be preferable to just using an actual mask. -- lofreq (via www.gimpusers.com/forums) _______________________________________________ gimp-user-list mailing list List address: gimp-user-list@gnome.org List membership: https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user-list List archives: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gimp-user-list
