: After making a selection float in GIMP, how to move it in a straight vertical or horizontal direction? I am doing kerning manually in GIMP, i.e. trying to move letters closer to each other,

@Megan533

You can use the arrow keys with the move tool as in Paolo's answer - note that if you hold shift as you press the arrow keys, the movement is made in larger
steps instead of one pixel at a time.

Another way of doing it is select the move tool, start moving your layer in the direction wanted and press and hold the CTRL key: movements in the other direction (i.e. horizontal if you started moving it on the vertical) will only happen after a large threshold in that direction - so it becomes easy to move only in one direction.

Still another option is to use image guides (click on the rulers on the sides and drag horizontal or vertical guides onto your image), position the guide along the top or bottom border of the layer you are moving, then make sure View->Snap to Guidesis enabled , and move the layer - it will be easy to keep on track.

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@Sent7350415

It's very simple:


Select move tool
Select the layer (or the float selection) to be moved
Click on the layer (or the float selection) to be moved
Move the layer using the keyboard cursor keys

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