Re: [Gimp-user] minute displacements in clone brush

[matt1027 <box1027 bellsouth net>]

At 01:59 AM 3/18/2012, John A. Wallace wrote:

> Hello, if this is the wrong
> place for the sort of question I have, please
> advise where would be better.  I am not a Gimp guru, not as yet
> anyway.  I
> am using Gimp 2.6.11 on Windows OS.  When I use the clone brush to
> copy a
> part of an image to a nearby spot on the same image, I often use the
> circle
> brush in Normal mode. There are many instances where I do not manage
> to
> place the circle down exactly in the right spot when I am ready to make
> the
> change, and I then have to reposition it by a minute amount.  It is
> sometime
> difficult to move it by just a fraction by using the mouse pad. It would
> be
> swell if I could use the arrow keys for the close in work to move it
> just
> barely, but the arrow keys do not move the circle at all.  Is there
> some
> combination of keys I can use to make the arrows work like that, or is
> there
> an alternative to my approach?  thank
> you.


If you place the spot on a new layer you could reposition the
layer a pixel at a time using  the arrow keys, then merge the layer
down to the layer beneath it.