: How to edit existing rectangle selection in GIMP? I have a rectangle selection. As long as I stay on the rectangle selection tool I can click in the rectangle to change the size. If I switch

@Samaraweera207

After using a selection, or switching tools such as using the Move Tool, you can make the selection editable once again by choosing the Rectangle Select Tool, and clicking inside the selection.

Move Tool deactivates selection editability


Choose the Rectangle Select Tool, and click inside the selection. This restores the editability of the selection.

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@Martha945

If - while making the selection - you know that you will want to come back to it later, you can save it using the selection menu and restore the selection using the channels dialogue.
So say you have your image and you want to save a particular selection, you can:

make a selection



paint flickr photo by Dean Hochman shared under a Creative Commons (BY) license

then save it to a channel:



carry on doing some other editing, then restore the selection

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@Cugini998

To move, scale rotate, or else an existing selection we first choose the appropriate tool (in the example below Scale Tool). In the tool's options tab we than have to tick Transform Selection.



After clicking on the selection watch the ants change to a grid. Frmo the scale tool we can now drag the corners or give in fixed values for width or heigth.

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