Malgalin you are a first class instructor, first class for a novice like myself. Thank you for taking the time to upload you tutorials. I look forward to more,
Better than the other tutorials than I've seen. Your'e patient, thorough, and easy to grasp. While the others I have seen speak to fast, don't show the shortcuts and things just disappear off of their screen. Love ya man and thanks for the video.
I did find this tutorial great and so easy to understand. Look forward to watching many more from you thanks for helping so many of us out here. GREAT JOB !!
Excellent tutorial! You have the correct pace and your articulations are clear and concise. I, who doesnt have English as my first language need these qualities to understand properly. Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge and your efforts. Take care! ...anwar...
WoW, thank you so much for this very comprehensive tutorial! I learned a lot of things that I have wondered about how it is done. You explained it so well and easy to follow!
ctrl+shift+A will deselect all. If there is just a small piece you want to deselect, then you need to use the negative select option, found in the tool options for all selection tools.
Ahh thank you so much! Being a photoshop addict myself, I tried to delete instead of control-x-ing my background. I probably would have given up on gimp if it hadn't been for this. Thank you for saving me all that money on Photoshop!
I think this and the other set of tutorials in the series are well done - much better than some other videos on the topic, as the presenter does not use concepts not yet developed and goes slowly enough so you can see/think but not too slow.
Excellent tutorial! I thought I already understood the select tools well enough but you also showed me new and better versatility while also clearly explaining/showing some of the wonderful abilities of some selection tools that were rather illusive to me. Liked, favorited and subscribed. :D
The quick mask is probably by favorite of the selection tools. Using gradients on it to get a faded in effect for filters and things is so useful. My question is: Is there a way to create a selection, say the shape of a cross, that you can then move about and cut things out in that shape, but not just a single use, but something you can keep coming back to like a cookie cutter? Thanks
That was a pretty useful 19 to 20 minutes. Thank you! I've started using Gimp after having used Photoshop for a number of years. I was actually quite surprised to find out that Gimp (and Inkscape) are as good and capable as they are . . . and they're totally free. I've been doing some image cutting-out the past few days and wanted to know if Gimp had a feature where selected areas can be additionally marked off by a translucent color, which I believe you can do with Photoshop. So I was quite happy to discover the Quick Mask Tool that you demonstrate in your video, although it would be nice if you could reverse the function so that what is already is selected is covered in translucent color. That was the main thing I was looking for, but you went on to show how you can use the paintbrush tool to go in and deselect little "crumbs" that were missed in the selection. There's something in Photoshop, I forget what it's called, but you select it and it searches for non-selected crumbs based on a pixel width setting you select, and it finds and deselects them for you. I don't know if Gimp has this, but what I was doing previously was to first make a selection, then select the expand selection command and then the contract selection command to get the selection back to the original (if it does get you back to the original selection). What this double maneuver does sort of do is get rid of some or all of the crumbs. But this Quick Mask + Paintbrush combo you can use in Gimp, which you demonstrate, were quite happily received. Then there are the Smart Scissors Tool and the Foreground Select Tool which thankfully you include in the video. Photoshop has something akin to Smart Scissors but I was never overly impressed with it. Maybe they've improved the function, and maybe I didn't know how to operate it optimally. I was impressed by how you additionally can drag the nodes made by Smart Scissors to readjust the selection. Your demonstration of the Smart Scissors tool will definitely have me trying that out, as well as the Foreground Select Tool. That could come in quite useful and save me some time. Doesn't hurt to hear a video narrated in a mellifluous and articulate-ish Received Pronunciaton-esque English (whether it's Aussie, Kiwi, South African or something from Merry Old England--I'm no authority on these dialects). At one point I was expecting you to use the word "contiguous"--to distinguish between the Fuzzy Select and the Color Select Tool, and was even saying the word out loud for you to say it, which you didn't end up doing. I guess contiguous is not a word a whole lot of people will know. It took me a few months to get that word embedded in my brain. Maybe you can save it for another video. If I have this right Fuzzy Select selects contiguous areas and Color Select selects non-contiguous areas. Enjoyed this useful bit of video, thank you once again.
Great tutorial. Only minus is your voice volume. I had my volume maxed out and I still had to use my headphones to hear you voice. But never the less an awesome tut. on selection. I feel much more confident in using Gimp now I have watched this. A+
The fan is barely audible, I don't understand what half these people are complaining about. I don't know how I never knew about single-window mode. The rest of this tutorial was very useful too. Thanks for this video.
I have not used GIMP much but just dwonloaded and installed 2.8. I was an intermediate user of Adobe PS 4.0 and I may have an answer for you. First, you need to be sure you selected the correct layer to paint over image/picture. OR...you need to flatten two or more layers with one layer being the object/picture you selected.
Great tutorial. I was wondering if there is a way to do free select and then move the selection without moving the portion of the image under the selection. It happened to me once but I can't figure out what I touched on my touch pad to do it again. Thanks,
great, finally a video I can understand about selection tools! I always wanted to try gimp, but its complexity is on the basics, at least to me, I am very plug and play in my life and so never really took the time to learn, so I have been using paint with devotion, dear god! I hope there is more to keep the learning, or a orderer list to follow? cheers!
THANK YOU for this.... I only have one request..... I can hardly hear you. This video is wonderful but I have to go back and play bits over and over to hear what you're saying. My volume is all the way up on my MackBook Pro and when I connect to exterior sound, it helps but it's so loud I also have a buzzing. Any suggestions? Nevertheless, thank you so much.... x
One thing that wasn't explained but I find useful when on a laptop is to use the left mouse button (holding it down), will keep you from loosing a large area when using the Select Tool. Hope this helps others.
Are you still answering questions?. My question is with the "marching ants" I need to make a part of what is selected curve how do I select that part and curve it? Which selection tool do I use that will allow me to do so? I'm trying to design a shirt for a virtual world and I'm using a template of an upper body image, On the neckline I need to bring the neckline down AFTER I have selected the outer perimeter of the template. Thank you for this video you have provided it's very informative
Hey nice to see some beginner tutorials. Could you explain how to paste a selection like that into another picture (like another background) and make it look natural and not stand out so much because of the rough borders?
New to GIMP 2.8 and looking forward to using it. Thanks for your time doing this. I think you made error in vid above by stating "hold 'A' down while clicking the fussy color selection tool. I thought you meant "hold Shift down" and click away with tool mentioned above. -MN Mike
Threshold level (for example in fuzzy-sellect tool) in 2.6 can be controlled on the fly by clicking on area and dragging mouse left or right. Is that option still there?
By selecting I mean on the Layers dock with the "eyeball" highlighted. A frame highlight will show around the layer you are working on. See tutorial on working with layers or get GIMP HELP manual (download) from their site.
Thanx Malgalin, I would like to learn all the tools in Gimp. They don't seem to work like the Photoshop. I bought new iMac. I can't afford to buy the Photoshop. I am finding difficulty manipulating images like I am used in PS. Where can I see all your Tutorials. Mac please.
I've been pasting photos inside of a selection frame and have been scaling the photos to fill out the selection area. I was having no issues until now and whenever I scale the photo to fill out the selection it overlaps the border. Did I click something in the tool options that is causing this?
hi ... I found the tutorial very good and at least start to understand how the program works ... however ... when I go into single window mode ..the different dialog's both sides get attached diagonal and not vertical ... so the window to work in becomes so small ... how can I get the dialog's to fit underneath the top one and not next to. like in the tutorial ... thanks ..smiles ..sorry for this dumb question
Very useful, thanks for taking the time. As a Gimp newbie I'd appreciate a bit of explanation sometimes about which keys/buttons you/re using. And how to zoom/pan etc too, though I realise you'd never finish a video if you did. Still a great help regardless!
I agree that it would be nice to know what specific action was taken to do things. If you verbalized everything it would probably be cumbersome. I've never seen this but if you could have a keyboard / mouse routine that displayed down in the corner what key in was pressed or an enlaged image of what tool was clicked on (maybe with the coordinates of where the click was, then one could go back an figure out. Some software development might be involved but it sure would be great.
Coming from Photoshop here. Have known about Gimp for a very long time, but never really used it because the UI bugs me. I hate that it doesn't have the selection and direct selection tools like in photoshop. That non-marching ants line around the image that looks like a selection also annoys me. But, I'm here to learn about Gimp and finally give it a chance.
I cant paste my cut out image. Please help. I can do all the things in video but you didnt tell us how to put it onto another image or layer. I really need to know and cant find this instruction anywhere, even in the manual but also not sure what I am looking for as language is different. Yes, sound is quiet.
I've learned more from your 2 tutorials then countless other people's. can you do a turorial better explaining the "enhancements" like sturation and hue, etc. and how to properly enhance/change the color of someone eyes/libs/hair?
I'm trying to use the blur/sharpen tool, but it's just not working. It's not only the blur tool that's not working, there's more tools that won't work either. I've tried installing and then re-installing GIMP, yet there's no results. How do I get the tools to work again?
how to make that the probrams you turned of u know the tools in right way and left i acsidently turned them off and i dont know how to turn them on again please help?
Jackson, it seems on all the forums I've visited everyone has the same problem I do with GIMP 2.8 and I think you're the man with the answer. How do you deselect a tool on a Mac when you are done with it in GIMP 2.8? I hope you can help: thanks.
Unfortunately, I am only a man, rather than THE man. I also don't use a Mac, so no idea how to deselect a tool. Do you mean you just want to stop using the current tool (like the paint brush) or that you want to create deselected portions of an already selected area? For example, do you have a circle selection you want to make a crescent shape from by deselecting part of the image? In the first instance, just select something else, like the move tool. In the latter, there's a shortcut key in windows (ctrl or shift or alt...don't remember which), or you can switch to quick mask view and edit the area with regular paint and erasing tools. Sorry to not have a Mac specific idea for you.
Jackson Bates That's quite alright I simply appreciate your attempt to help. My actual question was relating to the first scenario; stop using the current tool "without" selecting another. Although you're on a PC, I'm sure if I knew the way on a PC I would recognize it in Mac terms.
I just downloaded the 2.8 Gimp the other day and I dont have the whole right section at all. Like before you made it full screen I only have the left side and the middle. I tried to redownloal it and it didnt work. Any Suggestion??
Malgalin you are a first class instructor, first class for a novice like myself. Thank you for taking the time to upload you tutorials. I look forward to more,
At last someone who explains in straight forward terms. Thank you.
Excellent. Recommended to anyone starting on the Gimp. Follow the tutorial on your own picture, pausing the video when needed.
excellent, comprehensive, methodical and clear tutorial
Absolutely great video! Answered SO many questions. Thank you for taking your valuable time to make it for us.
I really appreciate your style and demonstration. Calm, clear, thorough and you move at a visually smooth pace! Thank you!
Yes, absolutely. I have a few others planned looking at other tools, but I may rush that one to the front of the queue. Should be up by the weekend.
Better than the other tutorials than I've seen. Your'e patient, thorough, and easy to grasp. While the others I have seen speak to fast, don't show the shortcuts and things just disappear off of their screen. Love ya man and thanks for the video.
I did find this tutorial great and so easy to understand. Look forward to watching many more from you thanks for helping so many of us out here. GREAT JOB !!
Excellent tutorial! You have the correct pace and your articulations are clear and concise. I, who doesnt have English as my first language need these qualities to understand properly. Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge and your efforts. Take care!
...anwar...
Thank you so much for going out of your way to make these tutorials. You are a fantastic instructor!
Superb Tutorial , Very very well explained. I enjoyed and caught it faster than other tuturials I watch . Thanks
Finally a tutorial with an actual photo! Thanks a bunch.
A load of thanks for a very easy to follow video! Being newe to Gimp, I didn't know where to start, but you have set me on the road!!
straight to the point... love it... thank you so much for spending your time educating me on using GIMP.
I don't understand the thumbs down. This is the best tools tutorial I've found.
Awesome tutorial, showed me how to use the quick mask to edit selection and some of the tools I had no idea about. 👌🏻
WoW, thank you so much for this very comprehensive tutorial!
I learned a lot of things that I have wondered about how it is done.
You explained it so well and easy to follow!
Glad you are back and a back to basics is a good idea for helping reorienting to the Gimp 2.8 interface.
I am glad that you are back! big hug from Spain!
ctrl+shift+A will deselect all. If there is just a small piece you want to deselect, then you need to use the negative select option, found in the tool options for all selection tools.
Very helpful, I learned much and I'm grateful for taking the time to pass on your knowledge
this is the best tutorial ever..u made it look so simple. Thanks a million to u and for beginners like me ur just truly cool..thank you so much..
Thank you for this very clear and comprehensive tutorial.
I just start to play with GIMP and I was lucky to meet your tutorial. Good job! Thank you!
Ahh thank you so much! Being a photoshop addict myself, I tried to delete instead of control-x-ing my background. I probably would have given up on gimp if it hadn't been for this. Thank you for saving me all that money on Photoshop!
thanks for making this tutorial this helped me a whole bunch. And you explained all seven in the video even better.
Great tutorial, very well explained. Thank you!
You're welcome! Glad it helped :)
Very well done. I am grateful for your efforts. Nice to have a 2.8 specific GIMP tutorial.
Excellent narration and excellent demonstrating skills.
I think this and the other set of tutorials in the series are well done - much better than some other videos on the topic, as the presenter does not use concepts not yet developed and goes slowly enough so you can see/think but not too slow.
+Don DeMent thanks! I'm glad they're working out for you
Thanks for taking the time to educate us! It is much appreciated :)
Brilliant! Love your video tutorials! SOOOO helpful! Thank you so much for posting these!
Very helpful, thorough, well-paced.
Thank you for the concise video. I just downloaded gimp and looking forward to trying it. Keep up the great work - can't wait to learn more :)
Superb! Thanks for taking the time to do that. I learned so much. Cheers!
Excellent job, thanks for taking the time to do this tutorial!
Excellent tutorial! I thought I already understood the select tools well enough but you also showed me new and better versatility while also clearly explaining/showing some of the wonderful abilities of some selection tools that were rather illusive to me. Liked, favorited and subscribed. :D
The quick mask is probably by favorite of the selection tools. Using gradients on it to get a faded in effect for filters and things is so useful.
My question is: Is there a way to create a selection, say the shape of a cross, that you can then move about and cut things out in that shape, but not just a single use, but something you can keep coming back to like a cookie cutter?
Thanks
Thank you for the amazing video. I just started using GIMP earlier today, so this was extremely helpful.
Awesome tutorial man!! thanks for sharing your knowledge!!! good pace & easy to follow
That was a pretty useful 19 to 20 minutes. Thank you!
I've started using Gimp after having used Photoshop for a number of years. I was actually quite surprised to find out that Gimp (and Inkscape) are as good and capable as they are . . . and they're totally free.
I've been doing some image cutting-out the past few days and wanted to know if Gimp had a feature where selected areas can be additionally marked off by a translucent color, which I believe you can do with Photoshop. So I was quite happy to discover the Quick Mask Tool that you demonstrate in your video, although it would be nice if you could reverse the function so that what is already is selected is covered in translucent color. That was the main thing I was looking for, but you went on to show how you can use the paintbrush tool to go in and deselect little "crumbs" that were missed in the selection. There's something in Photoshop, I forget what it's called, but you select it and it searches for non-selected crumbs based on a pixel width setting you select, and it finds and deselects them for you. I don't know if Gimp has this, but what I was doing previously was to first make a selection, then select the expand selection command and then the contract selection command to get the selection back to the original (if it does get you back to the original selection). What this double maneuver does sort of do is get rid of some or all of the crumbs. But this Quick Mask + Paintbrush combo you can use in Gimp, which you demonstrate, were quite happily received.
Then there are the Smart Scissors Tool and the Foreground Select Tool which thankfully you include in the video. Photoshop has something akin to Smart Scissors but I was never overly impressed with it. Maybe they've improved the function, and maybe I didn't know how to operate it optimally. I was impressed by how you additionally can drag the nodes made by Smart Scissors to readjust the selection. Your demonstration of the Smart Scissors tool will definitely have me trying that out, as well as the Foreground Select Tool. That could come in quite useful and save me some time.
Doesn't hurt to hear a video narrated in a mellifluous and articulate-ish Received Pronunciaton-esque English (whether it's Aussie, Kiwi, South African or something from Merry Old England--I'm no authority on these dialects). At one point I was expecting you to use the word "contiguous"--to distinguish between the Fuzzy Select and the Color Select Tool, and was even saying the word out loud for you to say it, which you didn't end up doing. I guess contiguous is not a word a whole lot of people will know. It took me a few months to get that word embedded in my brain. Maybe you can save it for another video.
If I have this right Fuzzy Select selects contiguous areas and Color Select selects non-contiguous areas.
Enjoyed this useful bit of video, thank you once again.
Great tutorial. Only minus is your voice volume. I had my volume maxed out and I still had to use my headphones to hear you voice. But never the less an awesome tut. on selection. I feel much more confident in using Gimp now I have watched this. A+
The fan is barely audible, I don't understand what half these people are complaining about.
I don't know how I never knew about single-window mode. The rest of this tutorial was very useful too.
Thanks for this video.
The first tutorial for 2.8.Nice :D
Great Tutorial! Thanks! I'm a beginner and this helped a great deal. One powerful piece of Software.
I have not used GIMP much but just dwonloaded and installed 2.8. I was an intermediate user of Adobe PS 4.0 and I may have an answer for you.
First, you need to be sure you selected the correct layer to paint over image/picture. OR...you need to flatten two or more layers with one layer being the object/picture you selected.
Great tutorial! I learned a lot in a few minutes. Thank you for sharing this.
Great tutorial. I was wondering if there is a way to do free select and then move the selection without moving the portion of the image under the selection. It happened to me once but I can't figure out what I touched on my touch pad to do it again. Thanks,
+Tilak Banerjee Did you figure it out? I have the same problem.
after you have used selection tool how do you save that? thanks..love your tutorials and looking forward to next.
great, finally a video I can understand about selection tools! I always wanted to try gimp, but its complexity is on the basics, at least to me, I am very plug and play in my life and so never really took the time to learn, so I have been using paint with devotion, dear god! I hope there is more to keep the learning, or a orderer list to follow? cheers!
Thx! This is a good tutorial - interesting stuff in it, clear and well put. Best regards from Romania!
THANK YOU for this.... I only have one request..... I can hardly hear you. This video is wonderful but I have to go back and play bits over and over to hear what you're saying. My volume is all the way up on my MackBook Pro and when I connect to exterior sound, it helps but it's so loud I also have a buzzing. Any suggestions? Nevertheless, thank you so much.... x
@0xffox yep, you can still do that.
One thing that wasn't explained but I find useful when on a laptop is to use the left mouse button (holding it down), will keep you from loosing a large area when using the Select Tool. Hope this helps others.
Are you still answering questions?. My question is with the "marching ants" I need to make a part of what is selected curve how do I select that part and curve it? Which selection tool do I use that will allow me to do so? I'm trying to design a shirt for a virtual world and I'm using a template of an upper body image, On the neckline I need to bring the neckline down AFTER I have selected the outer perimeter of the template. Thank you for this video you have provided it's very informative
As said below a great tutorial. Thank you very much.
Hey nice to see some beginner tutorials.
Could you explain how to paste a selection like that into another picture (like another background) and make it look natural and not stand out so much because of the rough borders?
New to GIMP 2.8 and looking forward to using it. Thanks for your time doing this. I think you made error in vid above by stating "hold 'A' down while clicking the fussy color selection tool. I thought you meant "hold Shift down" and click away with tool mentioned above. -MN Mike
What are the ways you can de-select an area, after you're done with it?
GREAT TUTORIAL... Thank you so much
Thank you so much for this wonderful tutorial!
Threshold level (for example in fuzzy-sellect tool) in 2.6 can be controlled on the fly by clicking on area and dragging mouse left or right. Is that option still there?
I would also like to know how to change her pink skin colour to to brown also using the lasoo or select by colour tool or whatever. Thanks
By selecting I mean on the Layers dock with the "eyeball" highlighted. A frame highlight will show around the layer you are working on. See tutorial on working with layers or get GIMP HELP manual (download) from their site.
Thanx Malgalin, I would like to learn all the tools in Gimp. They don't seem to work like the Photoshop. I bought new iMac. I can't afford to buy the Photoshop. I am finding difficulty manipulating images like I am used in PS. Where can I see all your Tutorials. Mac please.
Whats to best way to remove a background from hair in 2.8?
Brilliant - for people, not experts!
Great! Thanks a lot for making and uploading the video!
This was amazingly helpful. I am so impressed.
You did such a terrific job, way to go! :-)
I've been pasting photos inside of a selection frame and have been scaling the photos to fill out the selection area. I was having no issues until now and whenever I scale the photo to fill out the selection it overlaps the border. Did I click something in the tool options that is causing this?
Nice one, cheers mate. Nice starter to get me going.
I HAVE A QUESTION, how do you undo the selections, like when using the foreground or scissors. control z doesn't remove the thingys
One thing I keep looking for: Once you've selected something, how do you deselect it?
Thanks. This video helped me a lot.
Brilliant, thank you so much for your time!
Do you have a tutorial on how to do a vignette effect?
hi ... I found the tutorial very good and at least start to understand how the program works ... however ... when I go into single window mode ..the different dialog's both sides get attached diagonal and not vertical ... so the window to work in becomes so small ... how can I get the dialog's to fit underneath the top one and not next to. like in the tutorial ... thanks ..smiles ..sorry for this dumb question
Very useful, thanks for taking the time. As a Gimp newbie I'd appreciate a bit of explanation sometimes about which keys/buttons you/re using. And how to zoom/pan etc too, though I realise you'd never finish a video if you did. Still a great help regardless!
I agree that it would be nice to know what specific action was taken to do things.
If you verbalized everything it would probably be cumbersome. I've never seen this but if you could have a keyboard / mouse routine that displayed down in the corner what key in was pressed or an enlaged image of what tool was clicked on (maybe with the coordinates of where the click was, then one could go back an figure out.
Some software development might be involved but it sure would be great.
Coming from Photoshop here. Have known about Gimp for a very long time, but never really used it because the UI bugs me. I hate that it doesn't have the selection and direct selection tools like in photoshop. That non-marching ants line around the image that looks like a selection also annoys me. But, I'm here to learn about Gimp and finally give it a chance.
How would you make a picture larger or bigger on Gimp, or can you?
I cant paste my cut out image. Please help. I can do all the things in video but you didnt tell us how to put it onto another image or layer. I really need to know and cant find this instruction anywhere, even in the manual but also not sure what I am looking for as language is different. Yes, sound is quiet.
I've learned more from your 2 tutorials then countless other people's. can you do a turorial better explaining the "enhancements" like sturation and hue, etc. and how to properly enhance/change the color of someone eyes/libs/hair?
i cant pull the gradient i created on my document. I cant find the pointer tool to draw the line top to bottom and have the gradient apply.
you just saved my ass with the fuzzy select tool thing, thank you so much
I'm trying to use the blur/sharpen tool, but it's just not working. It's not only the blur tool that's not working, there's more tools that won't work either. I've tried installing and then re-installing GIMP, yet there's no results. How do I get the tools to work again?
That thing at the bottom of ur toolbox(like to adjust ize ad location) i dont have it in mine, do u know why?
Quite helpful. Thank you!
Great tutorial. Thank you so much!
how to make that the probrams you turned of u know the tools in right way and left i acsidently turned them off and i dont know how to turn them on again please help?
Jackson, it seems on all the forums I've visited everyone has the same problem I do with GIMP 2.8 and I think you're the man with the answer. How do you deselect a tool on a Mac when you are done with it in GIMP 2.8? I hope you can help: thanks.
Unfortunately, I am only a man, rather than THE man. I also don't use a Mac, so no idea how to deselect a tool. Do you mean you just want to stop using the current tool (like the paint brush) or that you want to create deselected portions of an already selected area? For example, do you have a circle selection you want to make a crescent shape from by deselecting part of the image? In the first instance, just select something else, like the move tool. In the latter, there's a shortcut key in windows (ctrl or shift or alt...don't remember which), or you can switch to quick mask view and edit the area with regular paint and erasing tools. Sorry to not have a Mac specific idea for you.
Jackson Bates That's quite alright I simply appreciate your attempt to help. My actual question was relating to the first scenario; stop using the current tool "without" selecting another. Although you're on a PC, I'm sure if I knew the way on a PC I would recognize it in Mac terms.
I just downloaded the 2.8 Gimp the other day and I dont have the whole right section at all. Like before you made it full screen I only have the left side and the middle. I tried to redownloal it and it didnt work. Any Suggestion??
I make logos for clans i'n in on the internet and I was wondering... Can this change logo colors?
The path tool sucks now! It's big and bulky and really hard to make good curves. Do you know of any way to get the old 2.6 path tool?
This is by far the most overcomplicated photo editor I've used
how do i get the layers bar on the left, I cant find it anywhere
Sometimes I just click outside the area selected and this turns selection off. I am new to GIMP but it seems to work this way... as Photoshop did.??
@15.10 " when I release a blue mask appears" what button are you releasing
???
how to go back to the regular pointer after selecting a tool ?
how to open the tools option on the left pane?