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Work with floating selections

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Work with floating selections

- As you work with layers in GIMP, it's important to understand the concept of floating selections and how to anchor floating selections to layers. So, let's see how they work. In the exercise file for this movie, I've gone ahead and made a selection of the surfboard and kept it active when I saved and closed the GIMP file, so it becomes active again when the file's opened. Now, with the surfboard selected, let's say let's say I wanted tocopy it to a new layer. I wanted to copy it to a new layer. I can press Control or Command + C to copy and Control or Command + V to paste. And let's look in the Layers dialogue to see what happened. Above the original layer, where I have my selection, a new temporary layer has been created, called "Floating Selection Pasted Layer." At this point, I need to either work with the content in the floating selection, in the floating selection, or anchor or anchor the floating selection to a layer. the floating selection to a layer. For example with the…

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