Chapter 7. Painting with GIMP  Table of Contents  1. The
Selection 1.1. Feathering 1.2. Making a Selection Partially
Transparent 2. Creating and Using Selections 2.1. Moving a
Selection 2.2. Adding or subtracting selections 3. The QuickMask
3.1. Overview 3.2. Properties 4. Using QuickMask Mode 5. Paths
5.1. Path Creation 5.2. Path Properties 5.3. Paths and
Selections 5.4. Transforming Paths 5.5. Stroking a Path 5.6.
Paths and Text 5.7. Paths and SVG files 6. Brushes 7. Adding New
Brushes 8. The GIH Dialog Box 9. Varying brush size 9.1. How to
vary the height of a brush 9.2. Creating a brush quickly 10.
Gradients 11. Patterns 12. Palettes 12.1. Colormap 13. Presets
14. Drawing Simple Objects 14.1. Drawing a Straight Line 14.2.
Creating a Basic Shape  1. The Selection  Often when you operate
on an image, you only want part of it to be affected. In GIMP,
you make this happen by selecting that part. Each image has a
selection associated with it. Most, but not all, GIMP operations
act only on the selected portions