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On Wednesday 05 December 2007, Chuckk Hubbard wrote:

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> On Dec 5, 2007 2:16 PM, Dave Phillips  wrote:

> > Greetings:

> >

> > Is it possible for the Gimp to be more obtuse ?!

>

> I'm sure it is, but I can't see how.

It's a user friendly applications, as opposed to a beginner friendly

application. Frustrating at first, but I'd rather have that than an

application that's constantly awkward and backwards, just to help

beginners get started.
> My GIMP frustration is when pasting into an existing picture; I get

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> a new layer, and I can't do anything until I anchor it.

You can move it around, and most tools (color, transforms, filters

etc) will operate on the Floating Selection as if it was a normal

layer.
> When I anchor it, the layer and any selection involved with it

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> disappear.

Right; you could think of anchoring as *actually* pasting it - and

it's pasted into the layer that was previously selected.
If you want to keep it as a separate layer, right click on it in the

Layers pane and select "New Layer..." Note that the new layer will

only be as large as the pasted selection! You can use "Layer Boundary

Size..." or "Layer to Image Size" to change that at any time.
And well... I'll stop here, before it becomes yet another GIMP

tutorial too long for people to actually read. ;-)
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