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Saving selections - GIMP Tutorial
From the course: GIMP Essential Training
Saving selections
- [Instructor] You can spend a lot of time and effort - You can spend a lot of time and effort making a preciseselection in a complex image, making a precise selection in a complex image, and it would be a shame to waste all that work if you had to recreate that selection every time you wanted to tweak a specific part of an image. a specific part of an image. Fortunately GIMP has some nice features for saving selections. So let's check them out. If you have the exercise file for this movie open, you may have noticed that there's an active selection an active selection around the dog. around the dog. I made this selection just before I saved and closed the file, and closed the file. just to show that GIMP will retain an active selection an active selection evenwhen you closed the file. even when you close the file. The next time you open it up, the selection will be there, ready to work with. ready to work with, andthat's a pretty cool feature. And that's a pretty cool feature. You…
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