Hi Jeffery,

On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 1:35 PM, Jeffery Small wrote:

I doubt that this can be done, but I thought I would ask in case I'm missing some trick.

Ofter I make a complicated selection with edge feathering turned off. However, after I'm finished making the selection I decide that I would like to feather the edges before performing other tasks. You cannot do this directly using the "Feather edges" check box on the selection tool property menu. Is there another way to accomplish this? Thanks.

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Select->Feather ?

LOL!

David

There is another way to feather an existing selection as well, it is my preferred method, since you can actually see how much feather you are gonna get beforehand.

Simply this: Convert the selection to a quickmask (also in the Select menu, and there is an icon in the lower left corner of the canvas that will toggle this as well.) The canvas will be covered with red, except for the area selected. Now do filters>blur>Gaussian blur and look at the preview to see how much blur (feathering) you get. Convert the quickmask (actually a temporary channel) back into a selection. Just like feathering, you can't see it until you actually manipulate the selection, but it works just the same.

--- Jeffery Small wrote:

On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 1:35 PM, I wrote:

I doubt that this can be done, but I thought I would ask in case I'm missing some trick.

Ofter I make a complicated selection with edge feathering turned off. However, after I'm finished making the selection I decide that I would like to feather the edges before performing other tasks. You cannot do this directly using the "Feather edges" check box on the selection tool property menu. Is there another way to accomplish this? Thanks.

David Gowers writes:

Select->Feather ?

LOL!

Unbelievable! I've wanted to do this for months now and never realized this option was available. I must have looked at this menu a thousand times and somehow never saw this option. Apparently I never looked when I needed it and the rest of the time I just looked past it!!! Thanks David.

Regards, --
Jeffery Small

On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 9:07 PM, Elwin Estle wrote:

There is another way to feather an existing selection as well, it is my preferred method, since you can actually see how much feather you are gonna get beforehand.

Simply this: Convert the selection to a quickmask (also in the Select menu, and there is an icon in the lower left corner of the canvas that will toggle this as well.) The canvas will be covered with red, except for the area selected. Now do filters>blur>Gaussian blur and look at the preview to see how much blur (feathering) you get. Convert the quickmask (actually a temporary channel) back into a selection. Just like feathering, you can't see it until you actually manipulate the selection, but it works just the same.

It works EXACTLY the same, in fact -- gaussian blurring is used for feathering. Using Quickmask+gaussian-blur is a sensible choice if you want to, for example, feather only part of the selection.