05-17-2018, 06:01 PM
(05-17-2018, 04:09 PM)Espermaschine Wrote: What i can tell you is that in over 6 years of using Gimp, i have almost never used the Magnetic Scissors Tool.
Most importantly: they dont work very well (this might have changed in V 2.10), because in most everyday situations, you dont have that good contrast between fore and background.
Something often overlooked is that you don't need to use the scissors on the image you want to cut. You can duplicate it, preprocess it to bring out the edges, use the scissors, and once you hav the selection, apply the selection to the initial image.
(05-17-2018, 04:09 PM)Espermaschine Wrote: Its one thing to understand tools and another to learn techniques.
Both things go and in hand.
+1