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  33.             <h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a id="gimp-using-getting-unstuck"></a>11.┬áGetting Unstuck</h2>
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  42.               <h3 class="title"><a id="id3431381"></a><span class="emphasis"><em>Stuck!</em></span></h3>
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  46.         <p>
  47.     All right, okay: you're stuck.  You're trying to use one of the
  48.     tools on an image, and nothing is happening, and nothing you try
  49.     makes any difference.  Your fists are starting to clench, and your
  50.     face is starting to feel warm.  Are you going to have to kill the
  51.     program, and lose all your work?  This sucks!
  52.   </p>
  53.         <p>
  54.     Well, hold on a second.  This happens pretty frequently, even to
  55.     people who've used the GIMP for a long time, but generally the
  56.     cause is not so hard to figure out (and fix) if you know what to
  57.     look at. Lets be calm, and go through a checklist that will
  58.     probably get you GIMPing happily again.
  59.   </p>
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  63.           <div>
  64.             <div>
  65.               <h3 class="title"><a id="id3431410"></a>Common causes of GIMP non-responsiveness</h3>
  66.             </div>
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  69.         <div class="variablelist">
  70.           <dl>
  71.             <dt>
  72.               <span class="term">There is a floating selection</span>
  73.             </dt>
  74.             <dd>
  75.               <div class="informalfigure">
  76.                 <div class="mediaobject">
  77.                   <img src="../images/using/unstuck-floating-sel.png" />
  78.                   <div class="caption">
  79.                     <p>
  80.                   Layers dialog showing a floating selection.
  81.                 </p>
  82.                     <p>
  83.                   Le dialogue des calques montrant une s├⌐lection flottante.
  84.                 </p>
  85.                   </div>
  86.                 </div>
  87.               </div>
  88.               <p>
  89.             <span class="bold"><b>How to tell:</b></span>  If there is a
  90.             floating selection, many actions are impossible until it is
  91.             anchored. To check, look at the Layers dialog (making sure
  92.             it's set to the image you're working on) and see whether the
  93.             top layer is called "Floating Selection". 
  94.           </p>
  95.               <p>
  96.             <span class="bold"><b>How to solve:</b></span> Either anchor
  97.             the floating selection, or convert it into an ordinary
  98.             (non-floating) layer.  If you need help on how to do this,
  99.             see Floating Selections.
  100.           </p>
  101.             </dd>
  102.             <dt>
  103.               <span class="term">The selection is hidden</span>
  104.             </dt>
  105.             <dd>
  106.               <div class="informalfigure">
  107.                 <div class="mediaobject">
  108.                   <img src="../images/using/unstuck-show-selection-menu.png" />
  109.                   <div class="caption">
  110.                     <p>
  111.                   In the View menu, make sure that "Show Selection" is
  112.                   checked. 
  113.                 </p>
  114.                   </div>
  115.                 </div>
  116.               </div>
  117.               <p>
  118.             <span class="bold"><b>How to tell:</b></span>  If this is
  119.             the problem, merely reading this will already have made
  120.             you realize it, probably, but to explain in any case:
  121.             sometimes the flickering line that outlines the selection
  122.             is annoying because it makes it hard to see important
  123.             details of the image, so Gimp gives you the option of
  124.             hiding the selection, by unchecking <span class="guimenuitem">Show
  125.             Selection</span> in the
  126.             <span class="guimenu">View</span> menu.  It is easy to forget that
  127.             you have done this, though. 
  128.           </p>
  129.               <p>
  130.             <span class="bold"><b>How to fix:</b></span> If this
  131.             hasn't rung any bells, it isn't the problem, andif it has,
  132.             you probably know how to fix it, because it doesn't happen
  133.             unless you explicitly tell it to; but anyway:  just go to
  134.             the <span class="guimenu">View</span> menu for the image and, if
  135.             <span class="guimenuitem">Show Selection</span> is 
  136.             unchecked, click on it..
  137.           </p>
  138.             </dd>
  139.             <dt>
  140.               <span class="term">You are acting outside of the selection</span>
  141.             </dt>
  142.             <dd>
  143.               <div class="informalfigure">
  144.                 <div class="mediaobject">
  145.                   <img src="../images/using/unstuck-select-all.png" />
  146.                   <div class="caption">
  147.                     <p>
  148.                   Click "All" in the Select menu to make sure that
  149.                   everything is selected.
  150.                 </p>
  151.                     <p>
  152.                   S├⌐lectionnez Tout dans le menu de S├⌐lection pour
  153.                   ├¬tre s├╗r que tout le canevas soit s├⌐lectionn├⌐.
  154.                 </p>
  155.                   </div>
  156.                 </div>
  157.               </div>
  158.               <p>
  159.             <span class="bold"><b>How to fix:</b></span> If doing this
  160.             has destroyed a selection that you wanted to keep, hit
  161.             Ctrl-Z (undo) a couple of times to restore it, and then
  162.             we'll figure out what the problem is.  There are a couple
  163.             of possibilities.  If you couldn't see any selection,
  164.             there may have been a very tiny one, or even one that
  165.             contained no pixels.  If this was the case, it surely is
  166.             not a selection that you wanted to keep, so why have you
  167.             gotten this far in the first place?  If you can see a
  168.             selection but thought you were inside it, it might be
  169.             inverted from what you think.  The easiest way to tell is
  170.             to hit the Quick Mask button:  the selected area will be
  171.             clear and the unselected area will be masked.  If this was
  172.             the problem, then you can solve it by toggling Quick Mask
  173.             off and choosing Invert in the <span class="guimenu">Select</span>
  174.             menu.   
  175.           </p>
  176.             </dd>
  177.             <dt>
  178.               <span class="term">The active drawable is not visible</span>
  179.             </dt>
  180.             <dd>
  181.               <div class="informalfigure">
  182.                 <div class="mediaobject">
  183.                   <img src="../images/using/unstuck-layers-dialog-invislayer.png" />
  184.                   <div class="caption">
  185.                     <p>
  186.                   Layers dialog with visibility off for the active layer. 
  187.                 </p>
  188.                   </div>
  189.                 </div>
  190.               </div>
  191.               <p>
  192.             <span class="bold"><b>How to tell:</b></span>  The Layers
  193.             dialog gives you ability to toggle the visibility of each
  194.             layer on or off.  Look at the Layers dialog, and see
  195.             whether the layer you are trying to act on is active
  196.             (i.e., darkened) and has an eye symbol to the left of it.
  197.             If not, this is your problem. 
  198.           </p>
  199.               <p>
  200.             <span class="bold"><b>How to fix:</b></span> If your
  201.             intended target layer is not active, click on it in the
  202.             Layers dialog to activate it.  (If none of the layers
  203.             there is active, the active drawable might be a channel --
  204.             you can look at the Channels tab in the Layers dialog to
  205.             see.  This does not change the solution, though.)  If the
  206.             eye symbol does not appear, click in the Layers dialog at
  207.             the left edge to toggle it: this should make the layer
  208.             visible.  See the Help section for the <a href="ch04s02.html" title="2.┬áLayers dialog">Layers Dialog</a> if you
  209.             need more help. 
  210.           </p>
  211.             </dd>
  212.             <dt>
  213.               <span class="term">The active drawable is transparent</span>
  214.             </dt>
  215.             <dd>
  216.               <div class="informalfigure">
  217.                 <div class="mediaobject">
  218.                   <img src="../images/using/unstuck-layers-dialog-transparentlayer.png" />
  219.                   <div class="caption">
  220.                     <p>
  221.                   Layers dialog with opacity set to zero for the active layer.
  222.                 </p>
  223.                   </div>
  224.                 </div>
  225.               </div>
  226.               <p>
  227.             <span class="bold"><b>O├╣ est le probl├¿me?:</b></span> Si vous 
  228.             travaillez sur un calque dont l'opacit├⌐ est ├á z├⌐ro, vous ne 
  229.             verrez aucun r├⌐sultat. V├⌐rifiez, dans la bo├«te de dialogue des 
  230.             calques, la position du curseur d'Opacit├⌐. S'il est compl├¿tement 
  231.             ├á gauche, l├á est le probl├¿me.
  232.           </p>
  233.               <p>
  234.             <span class="bold"><b>How to fix:</b></span> Move the
  235.             slider.
  236.           </p>
  237.             </dd>
  238.             <dt>
  239.               <span class="term">You are trying to act outside the layer</span>
  240.             </dt>
  241.             <dd>
  242.               <p>
  243.             <span class="bold"><b>How to tell:</b></span> In Gimp,
  244.             layers don't need to have the same dimensions as the
  245.             image: they can be larger or smaller.  If you try to paint
  246.             outside the borders of a layer, nothing happens.  To see
  247.             if this is happening, look for a black-and-yellow dashed
  248.             rectangle that does not enclose the area you're trying to
  249.             draw at.  
  250.           </p>
  251.               <p>
  252.             <span class="bold"><b>How to fix:</b></span> You need to
  253.             enlarge the layer.  There are two commands at the bottom
  254.             of the Layer menu that will let you do this:  Layer to
  255.             Image Size, which sets the layer bounds to match the image
  256.             borders; and Layer Boundary Size, which brings up a dialog
  257.             that allows you to set the layer dimensions to whatever
  258.             you please. 
  259.           </p>
  260.             </dd>
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