: How do I unselect items in GIMP? I'm currently using GIMP to add text captions and lines into a screenshot. The problem is that once I finished one caption I couldn't add any more lines (using

@Barnes313

It is very likely that these "boxes" are layers, text layers in this case.

Assuming this is it, the following might be the answer:

Layers have a finite size in GIMP, and this size doesn't change automatically. If you want to paint somewhere, then you have to make sure that:


there is a layer at this location
this layer is active in the layers dialog


This is the layers dialog (also part of the default UI layout):



If in doubt, you can create a new layer of the same size as the image. Layers are a fundamental concept of many more complex image manipulation tools, so you should familiarize yourself with them - almost anyone you are going to ask for advice will assume you know how to use them in GIMP.

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