Esper wrote:
thanks for the info, saulgoode !
i never find much use for the save to channel option
i mostly save selections as a path and while i see its a good thing you can blur a channel, i dont know what do to with it
You can make a path from a selection; but this is not saving the selection. If you go selection->path->selection you don't get the same selection. Try this:
- create a circular selection
- create new layer, fill with white, and bucket-fill selection with 50% gray
- "Select/To path" and "Select/From path"
- create new layer, fill with white, and bucket-fill selection with 50% gray
- put the top layer in difference mode: the image is all black with a faint circle (remove the ants to see it): this is the difference between your two selections.
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Things are much worse if the selection has any feathering.