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: Adding diagonal pixel border in gimp I am looking to create a simple border in Gimp and have tried both the selection >> border and both the stroke selection methods and both are not creating

@Hamaas979

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I am looking to create a simple border in Gimp and have tried both the selection >> border and both the stroke selection methods and both are not creating what I am looking for. The stroke selection technique is the closest I have gotten. I am looking to create an outline in gimp around a selection using diagonals. Like the following (the dark purple):

However I am getting it on the top but on the bottom, I am ending up with this:

How would I go about making the border like the top (connected diagonally) all the way around. I could do it manually but I have spent hours doing this tedious task. Thanks in advance.

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@Samaraweera207

One technique would be to use a path, and then stroke the path with the Paint tool option set to Pencil, and with the Pencil Tool itself set to 1px.

Example

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@Dunderdale640

Simple solution, may requires some slight manual corrections on the result:


Add a new layer
Edit>stroke path with a with of 2 pixels
Layer>Mask>Add layer mask and initialize by transferring the alpha channel if the layer.
Use the Threshold tool with a very high threshold (>250)

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@Twilah924

I actually figured out the problem by changing the border width to 1.5 pixels. Well problem solved.

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