Selection menu

You can edit a selection in various ways through the Select menu. Most of the options in this menu are grayed out until you have actually made a selection using one of the selection tools, as you would expect. Here are some of the most important option available through the Select menu.

The Feather radius is set in the Radius box in the "Feather" dialog and is measured in pixels. The greater the radius (2 to 50 is the range) the greater the extent of the feathering.

Note that the effects of using Feather are only seen with colors applied after feathering has been applied to a selection. The immediate effect is merely to expand the selection boundaries in accordance with the radius set by you.

If, for example, you have a circular selection and then you apply a border of 5 pixels, the new selection will consist of a circular band with borders 5 pixels in and five pixels out from the original selection, rather like a ring doughnut.