To crop, click and drag the marquee diagonally. You can crop an image if you just want a part of the picture. The Crop tool corresponds to the "scissors" in Photoshop. That means that you can't move one selection closer to another with the Move tool, because all of the selected areas will move together as one. Note that when you make multiple selects, Gimp treats them as a unit. To nudge an empty selection, press the Alt key and the arrow keys. Pressing the Shift key as you press the arrow keys will increase the length of these steps. The Move tool has an extra feature that allows you to nudge (move in small, precise increments) a floating selection or a layer with the keyboard's arrow keys when the Move tool is active. Note that the Move tool or a selection tool must be active for this technique to work. This option allows you to use the selection as a template: You can move the selection around and fill it every time you move it. You can never move a floating selection using the Alt key. Note that this option only works for the normal (empty) selections you make with a selection tool. With this technique, only the empty form of the selection moves, and not the contents. If you just want to adjust the position of a selection area, press the Alt key as you move the selection. See "Layers And Floating Selections" starting on page 315 for more information on working with layers. For example, if you have grouped a text layer with a drop shadow layer, you'll have to ungroup them or merge them before moving another layer, otherwise you'll move all three layers. When you see the yellow layer boundary turn blue, you'll know for sure that you're moving the right layer.Īlso notice that if you have grouped one or more layers (with the little anchor symbol), they'll all move, regardless of which layer is currently active.
The solution to this problem is to press the Shift key as you drag. Of course, you could paint a dot of color in the empty layer, turn off all the other layers (see "Layers And Floating Selections" starting on page 315) and then move the layer (by grabbing the layer by the dot), but this isn't a very convenient technique. If you try to do that, the Move tool will move the top layer in the layer stack instead! This happens because the Move tool needs something solid to grab onto. The Move tool can't move an empty, transparent layer. If your image has more than one layer, the Move tool will move the active layer. If you don't have a selection, the Move tool will move the entire image outside the drawable area. Moving The Entire Image Or A Single Layer If you click your mouse when the single arrow is visible, the floating selection will anchor to (merge with) the layer that was last active. When you use the Move tool on a floating selection, you'll notice that the double-arrow symbol becomes a single arrow when the pointer is outside of the selection. Should you decide to move it, you can use the Move tool in the normal way. This procedure will make your selection float without moving it from its current position. You can also ignore the selection tool's move symbol and go straight to the right-click|Select| Float command.
To move your selection a second time, you must switch to the Move tool. You can only move it once, because the move symbol will disappear as soon as you let go of the mouse button. If you move your selection using this move symbol, the selection will become a floating selection. In "Selection Tools" starting on page 109 we discussed the fact that Gimp displays a move symbol when you move your cursor over a selection, although a selection tool (and not the Move tool) is active. Please read Layers And Floating Selections for information about layers. The Move tool can move the entire image or layer, guides, floating selections or empty selection shapes.
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