GIMP tools - BDA

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Note!
Each guide can be dragged to a different location. To do it, you have to select the Move
Tool , position the mouse pointer right on the guide and drag the guide to the
desired location by left-clicking the mouse. At that time the guide becomes red.
New Guide
Select ImageGuidesNew Guide to select the guide location by pixels. Once you
apply the command, it opens the Script-Fu: New Guide dialog where the guide location
is given in pixels (points) from the borders of the image, i.e. the distance of the
horizontal guide from the upper border of the image and the vertical guide – from the
left border:
For instance, when you set the value of the Position option to 100 and Direction to
Horizontal, it adds a horizontal guide to the image which is positioned at a distance of
100 pixels from the upper border of the image.
New Guides from Selection
Another way to create guides is by the area selected in the image. The distances and
directions of guides will be set by selection. For instance, select one bird in the image
using the Free Select Tool . After selection is completed, apply