Hello and welcome to this video series on the Gimp. On this video, we're going to be going over another select tool up here in our toolbox. This is going to be our "Scissors Select Tool" and it's a little bit different than these other select tools in that it gives you a little more flexibility to the area that you are selecting. But aside from that is you can see it has its similarities too. We can feather the edges, antialiasing, and the different modes where you can add or subtract on the selected areas. But this one does so by connecting the dots so to speak.

So let's go and get started here by cutting out and manipulating the area around our little spilled ice cream if you will. So there's our first dot and the second. As you can see, it kind of puts lines that connect those dots. That's not exactly staying on the line. Now I want to point out to just above my scissors next to my pointer, there's a plus sign. When you get back to the original dot you can see it turns into an infinity symbol. So whenever we get here, we're going to click on that, it basically completes our selection. Now you can manipulate this by grabbing one of these dots and pulling out, and adding dots, and again you are manipulating this selection area here. Now once you've completed your selection area, you hit your enter key and that completes your selection. So all the little marching ants here inside of that is your selected area. Now, let's demonstrate that a little different way than we have using these other selection tools.

Let's go up here to the edit button in our toolbar and down here we can either clear the selected area, we can fill the entire area with a foreground (that's the FG color). And here we have our foreground color and the background color. And you can change this simply by clicking on this, and you can change this to purple, green, blue, or any variation thereof. Or we can go up here if you're going to be a little more precise and this gives you a little bit more of an idea as the blending options you know what looks cool, what doesn't look so good. We'll get into the bucket or the color fill section at a later video but for the time-being, we've got these two as our foreground and background colors. Now you go to the black and white by just going over here and clicking on this and you go back to the original black and white. So I’m going to change this again. We've got green here and the background we're going to go with a little pinkish color.

So now, we'll go back up here to the edit and we'll want to fill with the foreground color just click on that. If you want to fill with the background color and go with that. Now under the bucket fill tool, we see the different options we have here. Under the pattern fill, you've got several choices you can work with. Right now, we’ve got the warning pattern. You know the black stripes on the yellow background. You just simply click on this icon and here are several patterns you can choose from. Now in another video we're going to be getting into later on I’ll show you how you can add to your pattern selection here.

Like for example, this one is pine. We're going to do the same thing here. Just click on this and now we have our pine fill. Or you can do the same thing up here by fill with pattern. Whatever pattern you have here, you can fill it with that. Now, the stroke is basically an outline of the selected area. Let's go to show you this. And you can determine solid colors, that's basically we're going to use here and just click on stroke. Whatever the foreground color is, it's the stroke. And you can change that too.

Let's go and switch this around, edit, stroke, solid stroke and you see we changed it to the foreground color currently. So that is a quick introduction to the scissors tool and a brief overview of the fill section of the color selection tool. We already get in to the bucket fill tool in a later point but again I just want to demonstrate some of the things you can do with your toolbar up here at the top under the edit selected area. So hopefully you learned something out of this video and we'll get into more applications of these tools in later videos but for the time-being again I'm just introducing you to the various functions of each of these tools. Thank you very much for watching and have a great day!