do you want eliminate the marching ants or the selection ?
Wiew_show selection may toggle in out visibibility of marching ants
Select /none eliminate the selection
If greyed out, or there is not any selection or you may have a "floating selection" then do NOT anchor but add a new layer
(anchor will merge down, you may not like it )
But is easy confuse selection border will layer border, if you see the contour but nt marching ants is something else
Good question. I had the same dilemma, but eventually figured it out.
In the GIMP window, click on Select>None. Or, on the computer keyboard, Shift+Control+A.
I am using GIMP 2.6.2, but it should be similar with other recent versions.
With photoshop it is exactly the same, Crl+Shift+A.
BTW nice "marching ants" First time i've heard it referded to like that. Also, magic wand is replaced by fuzzy select and select by color, which is the vierson that selects every single one of that color on the screen.
EDIT: Random i know but it put me through a loop when i first tried photoshop.
It's stated that "Select" -> "None" is grayed out. I have the same problem after making an ellipsis selection and then pasting it to a new layer. I cannot deselect or unselect, but I can use other tools. Any ideas? And no, keyboard shortcuts don't work because the option is not available.
the problem is pasting that DO NOT paste as layer but as a weird entity called "floating selection".
If created a "floating selection" will delete any previous selection
And you can't deselect a "floating selection" make no sense, so that Menu command are grayed out
But solution is simple :
do NOT "paste" BUT "Paste as/new layer"
Or if you need the "floating selection" as alternative save first the selection in a channel, then paste
If you do always paste as a new layer, then you will use the possiblity to quickly add the pasted content to the active layer (or, more precisely, drawable - think layer mask, channel, ...) by anchoring the floating selection.
deselecting in Gimp
You have to anchor the floating selection. Control-H
do you want eliminate the
do you want eliminate the marching ants or the selection ?
Wiew_show selection may toggle in out visibibility of marching ants
Select /none eliminate the selection
If greyed out, or there is not any selection or you may have a "floating selection" then do NOT anchor but add a new layer
(anchor will merge down, you may not like it )
But is easy confuse selection border will layer border, if you see the contour but nt marching ants is something else
To fix that View/ layer bonduary
solutions
Layer menu
Anchor Layer
This will unselect the floating selection
Deselect in GIMP 2.6.6
Are you sure that you do
Re: DESELECT
I am using GIMP 2.6.2, but it should be similar with other recent versions.
-Alex
Isn't it the same...
Read the original question!
the problem is pasting that
If you do always paste as
If you do always paste as a new layer, then you will use the possiblity to quickly add the pasted content to the active layer (or, more precisely, drawable - think layer mask, channel, ...) by anchoring the floating selection.