Re: [Gimp-user] Ending a selection

[Pat David <patdavid gmail com>]

There is no "general purpose select tool" in Ps either that I'm aware of.
You choose a tool to do what you want, the "selection" is a function of
what you want to accomplish.
On Sat, Feb 11, 2017 at 8:00 AM Michael Schumacher <schumaml gmx de> wrote:

> On 02/11/2017 02:18 PM, Boxman wrote:
>
> > I was advised that there is no general purpose cursor to make selections
> in GIMP
> > - that the selection is made with the tool used. If that's the case,
> when a
> > selection is created by a tool (example text tool) how do you get rid of
> the
> > selection mode outlines?
>
> There, you're not seeing a selection, but the layer boundary.
>
> > And say for example I add text, but then want to move
> > it when there is no cursor to move it with?
>
> You can use the move tool.
>
>
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> Michael
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