2.2. Rectangle Selection
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### 2.2. Rectangle Selection

Рисунок 13.4. Rectangle Select icon in the Toolbox

The Rectangle Selection tool is designed to select rectangular regions of the active layer: it is the most basic of the selection tools, but very commonly used. For information on selections and how they are used in GIMP see Selections; for information on features common to all selection tools see Selection Tools.

This tool is also used for rendering a rectangle on an image. To render a filled rectangle, create a rectangular selection, and then fill it using the Bucket Fill tool. To create a rectangular outline, the simplest and most flexible approach is to create a rectangular selection and then stroke it.

#### 2.2.1. Activating the tool

You can access to the Selection Tool in different ways:

- from the image menu bar Tools → Selection Tools → Rectangle Select,

- by clicking on the tool icon in the ToolBox,

- by using the keyboard shortcut R.

#### 2.2.2. Key modifiers

| Замечание
Обратитесь к главе Инструменты выделения за справкой об клавишах-модификаторах, общих для всех инструментов выделения. Здесь описаны только клавиши, специфичные для инструмента «Прямоугольное выделение».

Ctrl

  Pressing the Ctrl key after starting your selection, and holding it down until you are finished, causes your starting point to be used as the center of the selected rectangle, instead of a corner. Note that if you press the Ctrl key before starting to make the selection, the resulting selection will be subtracted from the existing selection. The cursor becomes

Shift

  If you press the Shift key before starting the selection, the resulting selection will be added to the existing one. The cursor becomes

  Pressing the Shift key after starting your selection, toggles the Fixed option, and holding it down until you are finished, will constrain the selection to a square, if it is your first selection. Later, with the default Aspect Ratio , your selection will respect the aspect ratio of the previous selection.

Ctrl+Shift

  Pressing both keys after starting your selection combines the two effects, giving you a square selection centered on your starting point. Note that pressing these keys before starting your selection intersects the resulting selection with the existing one and the pointer change shape accordingly :

#### 2.2.3. Tool manipulation

Рисунок 13.5. Example of Rectangle Selection.

When this tool is selected the mouse pointer is displayed like this: as soon as it is over the image. A drag and drop allows to get a rectangular (or square) shape. When the mouse button is relaxed, a dotted line («marching ants») outlines the selection. It's not necessary to adjust the selection with care; you can resize it easily later.

When the pointer is moving on the canvas, the pointer and selection aspects change:

- outside the selection it looks like previously; this allows to design a new selection but will erase the existing one if this isn't combined with an action on the relevant key to add or subtract another selection as described in the previous paragraph.

- within selection peripheral parts, the mouse pointer changes into various shapes when overflying rectangular sensitive and clearly marked areas. These handles allow you to resize the selection. In selection corners the pointer changes into a shape according to the context; for instance in the low right corner it becomes: . So, by click-and-dragging these areas, you can magnify or shrink the selection size. Over median selection parts, lateral, low or up, pointer is changed into appropriate shapes according to the context. For instance, when the mouse pointer is over the median right side, the pointer looks like: . So you can click-and-drag to magnify or to shrink the selection size by moving the chosen boundary.

- inside selection central area the mouse pointer looks like usual for object manipulation, i.e.: . So you can move the whole selection by a click-and-drag.

Moreover, if you have not unchecked the Highlight option, your work will be easier because what is out the selection will be darkest than what is in the selection, and then the selection seems highlighted.

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If you use moving keys you can move the selection or modify its size by one pixel step. If you use it in combination with Shift you can move it by a 25 pixel step.

Рисунок 13.6. Sensitive selection areas

Display of all possible pointers in function of their localization with respect to the selection area.

After creating and modifying the selection, you will have to exit this editing mode (and commit any changes). You can do this with a single click inside the selection or by pressing the Enter key. Or you can just use a non-selection tool and, for example, fill or paint the selection.

#### 2.2.4. Tool Options

Рисунок 13.7. Tool Options for the Rectangle Select tool

Обычно параметры инструмента отображаются в панели, присоединенной к панели инструментов, как только вы активируете его. Если их там нет, вы можете перейти к этой панели, выбрав в меню пункт Окна → Панели → Параметры инструмента.

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Обратитесь к Инструментам выделения за справкой об параметрах, общих для всех инструментов выделения. Здесь описаны только параметры, присущие этому инструменту выделения.

Mode; Antialiasing; Feather edges

  Common select options.

Rounded corners

  If you enable this option, a slider appears. You can use this to adjust the radius that is used to round the corners of the selection.

Expand from center

  If you enable this option, the point the selection is started by pressing the mouse button is used as center of the selected area.

Fixed

  This menu allows you the option of constraining the shape of the rectangle in different ways.

  Aspect ratio

    This option allows you to design and resize the selection while keeping the aspect ratio fixed and written within the relevant box. By default the ratio is 1:1 (so we have a square) but it can be changed. With the two little landscape and picture icons, you can invert this ratio.

  Width

    With this choice you can fix the width of the selection.

  Height

    With this choice you can fix the height of the selection.

  Size

    With this choice you can fix the width and height of the selection.

X; Y; Width; Height

  These four text fields contain the current place and size of the selection. You can use these fields to adjust size and place of the selection by numbers.

Highlight

  If you enable this option, the selected area is emphasized by a surrounding mask to make visual selection much easier.

Guides

  With this menu you can select the type of guides that is shown within the selection to make the creation of a selection easier, respecting Photo composition rules.

  No Guides

    No guides are shown at all.

  Center lines

    Only center lines are shown as guides within the selected area.

  Rule of thirds

    Guides are shown along the rule of thirds while creating the selection.

  Golden sections

    With this option, guides show up to mark the golden sections.

Auto Shrink Selection

  The Auto Shrink Selection check-box will make your next selection automatically shrink to the nearest rectangular shape available on the image layer. The algorithm for finding the best rectangle to shrink to is «intelligent», which in this case means that it sometimes does surprisingly sophisticated things, and sometimes does surprisingly strange things. In any case, if the region that you want to select has a solid-colored surround, auto-shrinking will always pick it out correctly. Note that the resulting selection does not need to have the same shape as the one you sweep out.

Shrink merged

  If Sample Merged is also enabled, then Auto Shrink will use the pixel information from the visible display of the image, rather than just from the active layer. For further information regarding Sample Merge, see the glossary entry Sample Merge.

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