On Tue, 2008-07-08 at 09:56 -0600, ChadDavis wrote: > I've got a rectangle selection. Now, I am trying to do a subtractive > selection within that rectangular selection, to make a sort of picture > frame selection. The problem is that I'm having trouble getting the > inner, substractive selection centered within the first rectangle.
Very common procedure (making a frame). I use this method to make an antialiased line around things: 1. Create a rectangular selection. 2. Fill with color 3. Shrink selection by X pixels (where x is the width of the border you want) 4. Cut selection (or fill with background color, etc.). Alternatively, use the Tool Options dialog for the selection tool and set the Size and Position fields manually for the second selection. The first method works for small width borders but because shrink will slowly round the corners it doesn't work well for larger width borders. The second method works perfectly for all width borders. -- Michael J. Hammel Principal Software Engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://graphics-muse.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going into the garage makes you a car. - Attribution unknown _______________________________________________ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
