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Scissors Select tool

Scissors Select tool - GIMP Tutorial

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Scissors Select tool

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- [Narrator] In this movie we'll see how to use GIMP's Scissors Select tool. This tool allows you to make selections by clicking to create a set of anchor points around the edge of the area that you want to select. It looks for points of high contrast near where you put the anchor points to set the selection boundary there. Let me show you what I'm talking about. Here in our exercise file, let's say we wanted to select the whale's tail. So I'll take the Scissors Select tool, and let's look at the tool options. First we have the selection modes that we've seen with the other selection tools. We can also apply Antialiasing and Feathering to soften the edges of the selections we make, and there's this option called Interactive Boundary which can take the guesswork out of setting anchor points by showing you a preview of the selection edge as you move your cursor. So let's turn that on. And choose a spot along the edge of the tail to set the first anchor point. I'll click, and then click…

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