[Gimp-user] floating selection--how it arose

[Greg]

--- carol irvin <carolkirvin at gmail.com> wrote:
> The way I cropped was to use the horizontal selection marquee tool
> and then pressed Image>Crop in the menu of the image.  When the crop 
> was completed, I had my nice cropped image BUT I also had a floating 
> layer and thus 2 layers in the layers palette.  The only tool which 
> would appear on the image thereafter was the move tool.  Until I
found
> the anchoring command, I was dead in the water.

You don't need the Selection tool.  Go right to the Crop tool and
you'll be all set.


       
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