"Select all" selects all of the image, not all of the active layer

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(07-31-2025, 08:51 AM)gyepi Wrote: "Select all" used to select all of the active layer, and not all of the image. Now when I use "select all", GIMP 3.04 (on MacOS 15.5) selects all of the image, instead of all of the content of the layer. If I then press "shrink selection", the selection is getting shrinked from the entire image, and not only from the entire layer.

Is this the new normal behavior? How could I revert back to the old behavior (of "select all" selecting all of the active layer)?

Thanks!

I think you are mistaken, at least as far as I can check on 2.10 and as far as my memory of the previous versions goes. A selection in the image is not on a specific layer but on the whole image (which is why you can use a layer to create a selection and use that selection on another layer).

The "ants" show the boundary of the alterable pixels and therefore show the intersection of the selection with the active layer(s). So if you do "Select all" with an active layer smaller that the canvas the ants will circle that layer, but as soon as you change the active layer the ants will circle the new active layer(s).