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Ctrl + Shift + A (slrpnk.net)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 5 months ago (2 children)

You can deselect all with CTRL + SHIFT + A and deselect a specific part by changing the selection mode from replace or additive to subtract.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

imagine locking deselection behind a keybind nobody will know about

[–] [email protected] 15 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

It's literally at the top of the select menu

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

Everyone just confirming aliteral's point.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

interesting, i guess i just never checked.

i always just left clicked outside of the selection box to deselect

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)

When I was learning about GIMP key shortcuts I was like "Ctrl+A selects everything, Ctrl+Shift+A deselects everything. Makes sense."

And then I went to most of the other apps. "Ctrl+D? Well it's one less keypress, but... WHY?"

To be fair, I get it now, I've used plenty of image editors and I remember the keybinds wherever I am. Just that I sometimes find it annoying that The Other Software hasn't adopted logical keybindings.

(I find it particularly annoying that a lot of image editors try to be fancy and sophisticated and Photoshop-compatible and think it's at all appropriate to use Ctrl+NumpadPlus and Ctrl+NumpadMinus for zooming. Just use what GIMP uses! NumpadPlus and NumpadMinus. It's not hard! What are you using the plain plus and minus for, anyway? Absolutely nothing! I just checked, I need to use Ctrl in Affinity Photo. Plain plus and minus are useless. I see you. ...oh I can just rebind these. Done.)

[–] GTG3000 2 points 5 months ago

I just change certain keybinds to be GIMP-like whenever I switch drawing programs.

N is the pencil, CTRL-SHIFT-A is deselect. There's something else, but I can't remember right now.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago

Do you know of any good video tutorials? There are so many I don't know where to start. I tried one and it seemed too fast paced and not that helpful.