GIMP/Ellipse Selection
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The Basics
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Ellipse selection is similar to the rectangle one. The only difference is the fact that it has one option less - rounded corners, as it is elliptical selection so for what. As the name suggests it is made for creating elliptical and circle selections, with optional high quality antialiasing.
- Modes - determines the way of creating the selection, whether it'll be combined with existing one and such
- Antialiasing - causes the boundary of the selection to be drawn smoother
- Feather edge - causes the boundary of the selection to be blurred
- Expand from centre - expands selection, using starting point as the centre, instead for the corner
- Fixed - allows you to modify the actual shape of rectangle
- Position - placement of the selection
- Size - size of the selection
- Highlight - highlights the actual selection, by darkening everything that surrounds it
- Guides - select the types of guides shown within of selection
- Auto Shrink - shrinks the selection to the nearest rectangular shape available on the image layer
- Shrink merged - if this option is enabled, then Auto Shrink will use the pixel information from the visible display of the image, rather than from the active layer
Modes, Antialiasing and Feather Edges
[edit | edit source]- See Selection Tools#Modes for information about Modes
- See Selection Tools#Antialiasing for information Antialiasing
- See Selection Tools#Feather Edges for information about Feather Edges option
All other options
[edit | edit source]See Rectangle Selection for information about the tool as everything works completely (or almost completely) the same. The only difference is existence of rounded corners option in Rectangle Selection - there is no need for it here.