Re: [Gimp-user] Unable to flatten and/or deselect image?

2011-12-22 Thread Steve Kinney
On 12/22/2011 12:46 PM, Keith Purtell wrote: It refused to save as a jpg. GIMP 2.6.8. Windows 7. The original image I started with is at http://www.mediafire.com/i/?x591s2ra7wx9oxh Keith Hey Keith, It would help to have the actual original image, instead of just a screen shot. We

Re: [Gimp-user] Unable to flatten and/or deselect image?

2011-12-22 Thread Steve Kinney
Hey Keith, I think I just solved it - a well DUH moment because it was staring right at me while I wrote my previous post. Your screen shot shows that the offending layer is a float, not a normal layer. Click the anchor button in the layers tab (if there is a real layer under the float) or the

Re: [Gimp-user] Unable to flatten and/or deselect image?

2011-12-21 Thread Alexandre Prokoudine
On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 10:04 PM, Keith Purtell wrote: As a complete GIMP noob, I've run into a simple problem. I opened a jpg that need more width of any color on each side. Set background to black and changed canvas to new width. However the original center image remains selected and

Re: [Gimp-user] Unable to flatten and/or deselect image?

2011-12-21 Thread Keith Purtell
I'd hazard a guess that you are talking about yellow layer boundary. Check the lower half of the Layer menu for a command to bring layer's size to image's size after you enlarged canvas. I tried that, and the marching ants indicating the center (original) image stayed, and more such ants were