Re: [Gimp-user] Trying to move layer; only outline will move

["Dan ." <sustainable ecodesign gmail com>]

Hi Kevin,

From my experience, after pasting a new object in order to create a new layer, in the layers menu there should be Floating Selection ("pasted Layer") like Burnie wrote. For me, I right-click the "pasted layer" and select "New Layer", and the pasted object shows up as a new layer. From there, I make sure I deselect everything (SELECT > NONE), and then use the move tool (making sure the cursor is over the pasted object) to click on the object in your new layer in order to move it. Hope that is of some help.

Dan

On Sat, Mar 3, 2012 at 6:28 AM, Kevin Brubeck Unhammer <unhammer fsfe org> wrote:

Burnie West <west ieee org> writes:

> On 03/02/2012 07:08 AM, Keith Purtell wrote:
>> I've read the official tutorial several times and yet the directions
>> aren't working for me. I pasted in a layer which shows up fine in
>> the layers box. The active layer is the one I pasted in. The Move
>> tool is set to "Move the active layer." I've tried using the Move
>> tool by both dragging and clicking and dragging. In either case, the
>> new layer doesn't move, only the outline (marching ants). I've got a
>> huge project to complete today and can't spend an hour just trying
>> to get GIMP to move a layer. Tips?
>> Keith
> The newly pasted layer must be anchored before it can be moved. Your
> layers menu likely shows the words Floating Selection ("pasted Layer")
> If so, then the layer must be be anchored first. Under the layer menu,
> select "Anchor Layer"

Not on my GIMP … I move around floating layers all the time. I'm pretty
sure «Select → None» is the solution.

-k

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