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You can use the paint tools to change the selection. Click on the "Quick Mask" button at the bottom left of an image window. Change your selection by painting in the image and click on the button again to convert it back to a normal selection.

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You can save a selection to a channel (Select→Save to Channel) and then modify this channel with any paint tools. Using the buttons in the Channels dialog, you can toggle the visibility of this new channel or convert it to a selection.

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After you enabled "Dynamic Keyboard Shortcuts" in the Preferences dialog, you can reassign shortcut keys. Do so by bringing up the menu, selecting a menu item, and pressing the desired key combination. If "Save Keyboard Shortcuts" is enabled, the key bindings are saved when you exit GIMP. You should probably disable "Dynamic Keyboard Shortcuts" afterwards, to prevent accidentally assigning/reassigning shortcuts.

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If your screen is too cluttered, you can press <tt>Tab</tt> in an image window to toggle the visibility of the toolbox and other dialogs.

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<tt>Shift</tt>-click on the eye icon in the Layers dialog to hide all layers but that one. <tt>Shift</tt>-click again to show all layers.

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<tt>Ctrl</tt>-clicking on the layer mask's preview in the Layers dialog toggles the effect of the layer mask. <tt>Alt</tt>-clicking on the layer mask's preview in the Layers dialog toggles viewing the mask directly.

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You can use <tt>Ctrl</tt>-<tt>Tab</tt> to cycle through all layers in an image (if your window manager doesn't trap those keys...).

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<tt>Ctrl</tt>-click with the Bucket Fill tool to have it use the background color instead of the foreground color. Similarly, <tt>Ctrl</tt>-clicking with the eyedropper tool sets the background color instead of the foreground color.

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<tt>Ctrl</tt>-drag with the Rotate tool will constrain the rotation to 15 degree angles.

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If some of your scanned photos do not look colorful enough, you can easily improve their tonal range with the &quot;Auto&quot; button in the Levels tool (Colors→Levels). If there are any color casts, you can correct them with the Curves tool (Colors→Curves).