Gert Blij wrote: >Basically what I said was that while the rectangular select works fine, all >the others don't. When I select with Oval, Hand draw or Intelligent >scissors, the cut from the Gimp looks perfect, but when I paste into >OpenOffice Writer it is always a rectangular picture the width and height >being the outer most points of the cut. > >It all makes it pretty useless for what I need it for. Would you know of a >way of getting this right? > > You could try this, though it's a bit of a kludgey workaround :).
1. Make sure the layer you are working with has an alpha channel (Right click the layer in the layers dialog->Add alpha channel). 2. After making the selection (oval, scissors, or whatever), invert the selection. (Cntrl-I or Menu->Select->Invert) 3. Cut everything else out (Cntrl-X). Now these regions will all be transparent, leaving only what you want. 4. Invert the selection again (Cntrl-I) returning to your original selection. 5. Copy that (Cntrl-C) and try pasting it. Even if it pastes a rectangular bounding box, everything other than what you want will not show. Of course, save the original image elsewhere in case you do something inadvertently. Harish _______________________________________________ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
