GIMP/Ellipse Selection

The Basics

Default ellipse selection tool settings.

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Ellipse selection is similar to the rectangle one. The only difference is the fact that it has one option less - rounded corners, as it is elliptical selection so for what. As the name suggests it is made for creating elliptical and circle selections, with optional high quality antialiasing.

• Modes - determines the way of creating the selection, whether it'll be combined with existing one and such
• Antialiasing - causes the boundary of the selection to be drawn smoother
• Feather edge - causes the boundary of the selection to be blurred
• Expand from centre - expands selection, using starting point as the centre, instead for the corner
• Fixed - allows you to modify the actual shape of rectangle
• Position - placement of the selection
• Size - size of the selection
• Highlight - highlights the actual selection, by darkening everything that surrounds it
• Guides - select the types of guides shown within of selection
• Auto Shrink - shrinks the selection to the nearest rectangular shape available on the image layer
• Shrink merged - if this option is enabled, then Auto Shrink will use the pixel information from the visible display of the image, rather than from the active layer

Modes, Antialiasing and Feather Edges

See Selection Tools#Modes for information about Modes

See Selection Tools#Antialiasing for information Antialiasing

See Selection Tools#Feather Edges for information about Feather Edges option

All other options

See Rectangle Selection for information about the tool as everything works completely (or almost completely) the same. The only difference is existence of rounded corners option in Rectangle Selection - there is no need for it here.