Re: [Gimp-user] Why so COMPLICATED?

["Joao S. O. Bueno" <gwidion mpc com br>]

On 27 December 2013 16:22, Sam Gleske <sam mxracer gmail com> wrote:
> Original message below.  I see a good feature recommendation here.  Sliders
> for fuzzy selection in the select Tool Options dialogs.  I think it would
> be useful.


Well, that is there since...forever!
The task at hand here is somewaht different - giving
control to fuzzy out the contents on paste - that makes the difference,
for two things:
1) you can see the "final result" as you play along with the silder
2) you make the pasted content fuzzy so that it has
100% transparency on its border. With fuzzy selections,
you get 50% transparency on the border, before cutting. After pasting,
one has to go through all the steps listed above, and they are
quite a few.


> On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 2:34 PM, SirCrow <forums gimpusers com> wrote:
>
> > Hello.  I've tried using GIMP many times, yet I've accomplished very
> > little,
> > given all of GIMP's functionality.  For example:
> >
> > If I want to select part of an image and copy it to another area or to a
> > new
> > image/layer, and also FEATHER the edges, here's how I'd do it in an old
> > graphics
> > app I often used years ago:
> >
> > 1. Select the area.
> > 2. Hold Ctrl while moving selection with Move tool.
> > 3. Use the slider to soften the edges to my liking.
> > 4. Press Enter to anchor selection.  Done.
> >
> > And there were sliders also for opacity and other things.  So very SIMPLE
> > because the prog. was designed very intuitively.  How would I accomplish
> > the
> > same in GIMP?  Well, most of the time, I WOULD ACCOMPLISH NOTHING!  At
> > best, I'd
> > enter values into the box, not like the result, enter new values, repeat.
> >  And
> > that's on a good day.
> >
> > PLEASE, I beg you, somebody write a SCRIPT/PLUGIN that allows the use of
> > sliders
> > exactly as described above!  I desperately want to be a HAPPY GIMP user,
> > but I'm
> > growing ever more hopeless.  I don't want to turn on my older PC just to
> > use a
> > graphics app that actually lets me get things done.  Thank you.
> >
> > Joe
> >
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