Gimp User Manual 2.10.12
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Figure 14.18. Free Selection icon in the Toolbox
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The Free Selection tool, or Lasso, lets you create a selection by drawing it with the pointer.
Since GIMP-2.6, you can use it in two ways. First create the starting point clicking on your image. Then,
Maintaining the mouse button pressed (i.e click-and-drag), drag to draw a free hand selection. When end point comes superimposed on the starting point, release the mouse button to close the selection.
If you click on the end point, it turns accompanied by a moving cross. Then, dragging enlarges the shape.
Or release the mouse button and drag to draw a polygonal selection. When end point comes superimposed on the starting point, click to close the selection.
Press the Ctrl keyboard key and click on the end point: moving the mouse pointer forces moving angles to 15°; so, you can draw horizontal or vertical lines easily.
In both cases, double clicking on the end point closes the selection with a straight line.
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In polygonal mode, this selection is a preliminary selection; ants are marching, but the small yellow circle is still present: you can copy the selection and, pressing the Backspace key, you return to the previous selection step (re-open the shape), and you can edit the selection.
Press Enter or double click inside the shape to validate the selection.
Pressing and releasing the mouse pointer allows you to mix free hand segments and polygonal segments. You can go outside the edge of the image display and come back in if you want to.
The Lasso is often a good tool to use for “roughing in” a selection; it is not so good for precise definition. Experienced users find that it is often convenient to begin with the lasso tool, but then switch to QuickMask mode for detail work.
For information on selections and how they are used in GIMP see Selections. For information on features common to all selection tools see Selection Tools.
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The Free Selection tool is much easier to use with a tablet than with a mouse. |
Figure 14.19. Mixing free hand segments and polygonal segments
You can access the Lasso Tool in different ways:
From the image menu bar Tools → Selection Tools → Free Select,
by clicking on the tool icon in the ToolBox,
by using the keyboard shortcut F.
The Free Select tool has key modifiers that affect all selection tools in the same way. See Selection Tools for help with these.
Backspace returns to previous selection step (removes last selection segment), Escape cancels all selection segments.
To move the selection, see Moving selections.
Figure 14.20. Rough selection with the Free Selection tool.
Figure 14.21. Tool Options for the Lasso tool
Normally, tool options are displayed in a window attached under the Toolbox as soon as you activate a tool. If they are not, you can access them from the image menu bar through Windows → Dockable Windows → Tool Options which opens the option window of the selected tool.
The Free Select tool has no special tool options, only the ones that affect all selection tools in the same way. See Selection Tools for help with these.
Since GIMP-2.10.12, selection modes work differently. Marching ants come with a continuous line, meaning that the selection is not validated yet and that you can still change the selection shape (mouse pointer comes with the Move icon). But you can't use 'Hold Shift, Ctrl...) yet. You have to hit the Enter key. Then you can use Hold Shift to add a selection, Hold Ctrl to subtract a selection, Hold Shift + Ctrl to intersect two selections. When you are satisfied with your changes, hit Enter key to validate the selection.
Current Stable Version
The current stable release of GIMP is 2.10.12 (2019-06-12).
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GIMP for Unix-like systems
If available, the official package from your Unix-like distribution is the recommended method of installing GIMP!
The flatpak build is new and has known limitations, though it will likely provide faster updates, following GIMP releases closely.
Therefore choose your installation medium according to your needs.
Flatpak build available in: i386, x86-64, ARM and AArch64.
Flatpak additional instructions
The flatpak link above should open your software installer and prompt you to install GIMP. Yet it may not work out-of-the-box on some platforms since the flatpak technology is new. If that is the case, ensure flatpak is installed and if clicking the link still does not prompt to install GIMP, then manually install by command line:
flatpak install https://flathub.org/repo/appstream/org.gimp.GIMP.flatpakref
Once installed, it will be made available exactly the same way as other applications (menus, desktop overview, or any specific application launch process used by your desktop).
If this is not the case, we suggest to report a bug to your desktop or distribution asking for proper support of flatpak. In the meantime, you can still run it by command line (not as the recommended method, only a workaround):
flatpak run org.gimp.GIMP//stable
This installation will also provide regular update. You don't have to come back on this page and install again (it will not work!) when a new version of GIMP is released. Instead if your distribution and/or desktop has a good support for flatpak, it should propose to perform updates.
Once again, if your distribution does not have proper support, you can always fall back to using the following command line:
flatpak update
Systems without flatpak support
GIMP can also run on Solaris and is available for the BSD family of systems such as FreeBSD and OpenBSD.
Please refer to the documentation for your Unix-like system on the installation of software.
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Supported OS: macOS 10.9 Mavericks or over
Since the 2.8.2 version, GIMP runs on OSX natively. No X11 environment is required.
Native build
The official GIMP 2.10 DMG installer (linked above) is a stock GIMP build without any add-ons. Just open the downloaded DMG and drag and drop GIMP into your 'Applications' folder.
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Previous installers for OSX can be found here: download.gimp.org.
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An easy way to compile and install GIMP and other great Free software on your Mac is by using Macports. The installer allows you to choose from a large directory of packages. To install gimp using Macports, you simply do sudo port install gimp once you have Macports installed.
Last we checked, the GIMP port file pointed to the current stable release and we have reports from people who've built GIMP successfully this way.
Homebrew
Homebrew is similar to Macports and provides packages (aka formulas) to install, either by compiling them from source or by using pre-made binaries. There are indications that there is now a formula for GIMP, installable with: brew tap caskroom/cask && brew cask install gimp.
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Fink
Fink is a package repository that offer mostly precompiled binaries. It provides the apt-get command known to e.g. Debian and Ubuntu users, and installing GIMP is as easy as sudo apt-get install gimp once you have installed the Fink installer.
If there's no binary package, then fink install gimp will compile GIMP from source.
Disclaimer: we haven't been able to determine if it is possible to install or build recent GIMP from Fink. Last we checked, GIMP 2.6.12 appears to be the most recent GIMP package that is offered there.
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Supported OS: Windows 7 or over
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