Re: [Gimp-user] Free Select Lasso Tool - Please help me

[Pat David <patdavid gmail com>]

When using that tool, double-clicking will attempt to close the path from
that location - are you accidentally double-clicking by chance?

On Mon, Oct 12, 2015 at 5:36 PM Ladystar <forums gimpusers com> wrote:

> HI , I am an amateur gimp users, self taught through you tube, about five
> years
> in now.  Something has changed and no matter how many times i scrape gimp
> off my
> drive and reinstall (registry entries too), the issue remains the same.
>
> I can find no settings or options to affect this issue, so it must be
> something
> stupid I have changed or don't understand about the program.
>
> let's say as an example i paste a picture into my gimp frame and from
> within
> that picture I want to cut something out, using my lasso tool by clicking
> multiple points around the object closely and then CTRL X to cut it out.
>
> This tool has always worked 100 percent, but now when I attempt to laydown
> selection dots around my object, before i am finished laying down the
> dots, the
> dots behind me dissapear, or the dots close the loop in some intersected
> way
> that I didn't choose because i didn't get to finish going around my object.
>
> I am litterally losing my mind over this issue.  I have hit hte tool reset
> button, i have used all th different tool selection settings, I can't get
> it to
> let me finish selecting the object i want to cut out, without it finishing
> it or
> me too early and cutting across my object.
>
> I have attached a picture showing how the lasso tool closed the loop on me
> while
> I was still trying to go around the object with selection dots.
>
> Has anyone experienced this, can someone help me.
>
> thank you
> Ladystar
>
> Attachments:
> * http://www.gimpusers.com/system/attachments/223/original/lassotool.png
>
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