GIMP tutorial: Beginners' Guide ep23 - Tools - Rectangle select tool PART 2 Video Lecture | A GIMP Guide for Beginners - Design Softwares

hi in this video we continue to discuss
our tango selection tool now when you
make a selection like that you can also
move that selection around let's escape
it you can also hold down your Shift key
and get a square if you release it you
get a freedom on the selection if you
hold it you get a square let's undo that
no feathering edges here you get to see
the radius the amount of feathering for
example you see that now this is not
interactive you don't get to change it
interactively you can select before you
start and then you get the result now
with the select again rounded corners
you can actually see that interactively
now you can round your corners let's
undo that expand from centre means that
you expand your selection from a way you
click this might be useful sometimes
let's escape that now fixed selection
this is for example you can choose to
set it to let's say 16 now as you can
see you get this some click that get
this kind of a preset box with fixed
aspect ratio
you can also choose to be fixed with as
you can see I can only affect the height
you can choose to affect the width on me
and at the height you can of course
change here the number of pixels how the
height is being affected you can also
choose to affect the size a fixed size
of the box if you want let's say a box
of this kind of dimensions you just
click and you get it do that also to be
in a portrait or landscape mode as you
can see let's remove that also here you
get to see the your position or change
it from here for example let's just
remove that fixed you see where your
position this is the starting point on
the X and y axis you can see these
numbers change also the size of the box
you can change it from here you can also
choose to highlight it which means that
only the selection will be visible clear
the rest of it will be in a great color
you can also choose to use centrelines
you to choose rule of thirds this is
only for your visual purposes when you
come into selection you can see this
does not affect the selection let's
deselect the game you can also choose
the golden sections
and the last option here shrink merge
how to shrink the direction or shrink
merge this means that this merge usually
in these tools means that it will affect
all the layers if you have many layers
this will affect all of them that's it
for now in the next video we'll take a
look at some practical uses of the
rectangular selection tool bye for now