r/GIMP

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If I paste an image larger than the canvas, then it shows the yellow bounding box outside the canvas and it lets me move it around, but not resize it. Switching to the scale tool just selects whatever is within the canvas.

The only thing I was able to find was to resize the canvas to fit the image. But I don't want to resize the canvas.

In most programs like paint net, I would just paste the image then it would automatically create a selection box around it for me to scale it down.

I use GIMP to make iracing liveries, I don't use it for anything else at the moment. For some time now its been frustrating dealing with aligning an image over a panel gap, eg Hood to Fender. Other than manually doing it and lining it up by eye is there something I am missing that would make this easier. A tool, function, or even a different program that would help with this. I have added an image to shop the type of gaps I am dealing with, and this is a simple example, there can be many more parts to this.

https://preview.redd.it/pmom9gna1nth1.png?width=1080&format=png&auto=webp&s=109e1b709dc3e5780c7bcaf878f5149def686376