When I go to crop something, Gimp crops it very nicely but, unlike, PS, the image is then impossible to do anything else with as I now have a floating layer. My instinctive response was to flatten and save but flatten was greyed out. Then I discovered this anchoring layer command and that has solved a lot of problems. Anchor, then flatten, then save is pretty good. This also seems to come into play when I cut and paste. The frustrating thing there is that I seem to be able to cut, paste and move once but they flatten into one image after I do that. I suspect I need to do something every time I do a paste that converts the paste into its own layer. PS does this automatically. So far this floating selection and the vagaries of cut-past and then move have been my major pitfalls but I think this is merely because they don't work like PS does when doing these tasks. I also can't use the text tool but that is because I need to do some reading about it and, again, it works very differently from PS's use of text tool. That something works differently from PS doesn't mean it is either better or worse than PS. It is just different and that means there is a learning curve on it. I would rather there be no learning curve but realistically that is not how software programs work.
-- carol
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