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    Ctrl + Shift + A (slrpnk.net)
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    [–] [email protected] 27 points 4 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 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

    imagine locking deselection behind a keybind nobody will know about

    [–] [email protected] 15 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

    It's literally at the top of the select menu

    [–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

    Everyone just confirming aliteral's point.

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 4 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 4 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.)

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 4 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 4 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.