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- This command is found at
- <span class="guimenu">Select</span>-><span class="guimenuitem">Float</span>
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- Select Float converts a normal selection to a Floating Selection.
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- Floating selections were used in the first ages of GIMP to perform
- operations on a limited part of the image. Nowadays, you can do that
- more easily with layers. This option is persisting. More, a float is
- automatically created when you move a selection using the move
- tool without pressing the ALT key (or Shift Alt in Linux).
- A temporay layer is created in the Layer Dialog. Its name is
- 'Floating Selection'.
- No more operations can be performed on another layer until the float
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- Once the wanted operations have been performed on the floating
- selection, you have to <span class="emphasis"><em>anchor</em></span> it, that is to
- say put it in a normal layer, more often the original layer, the
- last active, by clicking on the anchor button of the Layer Dialog or
- the 'Anchor Layer' of the Layer menu. You can also put it
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