Re: [Gimp-user] Selection to Path

[Ofnuts <ofnuts gmx com>]

On 26/02/16 18:59, akovia wrote:
> Just curious if there was any way to bypass or modify the "Selection to
> Path Advanced Settings" algorithms when working with the Ellipse
> Selection Tool? A simple circle or ellipse produces a path with so many
> unnecessary and non symmetric nodes that it makes it pretty useless. A
> square selection will always give you 4 nodes, but I'm not sure why a
> circle/ellipse selection will not.
>
> There are tons of scripts/tools (mostly by ofnuts) that makes it less
> painful to make a true circle path, but it seems like something that
> should be easy to do with built in functions, and nothing would be
> easier than being able to use the ellipse tool to eyeball your
> ellipse/circle, then convert to path.

The problem is that once the selection is created, Gimp completely 
forgets that it came out of the ellipse selection tool. The same can be 
said for the rounded rectangle selection.

You have a a very valid point however, getting a circle/ellipse 
selection to overlap an existing circle/ellipse is not very easy; 
framing it with a rectangle selection and then getting the 
circle/ellipse that fits the rectangle would often be easier.