Re: [Gimp-user] freehand selection lost since image was already selected

[Alexandre Prokoudine <alexandre prokoudine gmail com>]

On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 1:15 PM, Kevin Brubeck Unhammer wrote:
> Say you've zoomed in to start this painstaking freehand selection with
> lots and lots of points, and when you get to the end, nothing gets
> selected. Then you notice that, once again, you had done a Select All
> some time ago (invisible because you zoomed in) and forgotten to Select
> None before clicking the lasso.
>
> What do people do to avoid this?

http://libregraphicsworld.org/blog/entry/saving-and-restoring-selections-in-gimp

Alexandre