Marquee select object/s in a Layer

[JayH]

Hi,

In Photoshop there has always been the automatic ability to drag a Marquee around an area of an image in a layer to isolate it.

After dragging a marquee around the area, pressing a cursor key would immediately snap the marquee around the area snugly (Even anti-aliased as you'd expect). This then allows you constrain your painting to be within the marquee selected area.

I believe you can also do this in Gimp also by using the Float option (It's been a while since I used it).

Thanks, Jay.