adjusting shape selections

[peterti]

I am feeling pretty stupid after a few hours. I have been trying to select an ellipse selection area around an oval shaped logo to create a mask or transparent background. I am trying to use the ellipse selection tool. When I use the ellipse selection tool, it makes an out of control shape that goes off the edges with a marquee and there is no way to adjust it. So then I created a selection shape using the vector shape tool, but I couldn't do anything with the selection after making it a raster object. I tried to flood fill background area...mouse pointer is there with bucket but nothing happens. Nothing seems very intuitive, clear or logical to me. you pick a shape and then use handles to adjust it to the actual shape is what seems intuitive, but that is just too easy or too stupid :-O. Like I said, feeling pretty dumb about this.

[LindaSue]

So then I created a selection shape using the vector shape tool, but I couldn't do anything with the selection after making it a raster object.

Before you convert the vector layer to raster, save the selection to an alpha channel so you can load it on your raster layer.

[Radim]

One way is to use classic Elipse drawing tool, draw ellipse around your logo, do resize, rotation, what you need, then select command - selection from vector object (Ctrl+Shift+B). That's it.