Again, major problems creating and manipulating photo selections (or masks)

[David.P]

Hi forum,

it could not be a simpler task: I need to

1. create a rectangular selection;
2. manipulate (move) the borders of that selection in order to exactly match the rectangular photo area to be selected; and
3. convert that selection to a mask

I draw a rectangular selection, and afterwards there are no handles at its borders to manipulate that selection!?!

It takes about one second in Paint.net or whatever other photo software to figure out how to adjust/manipulate a rectangular selection inside a bitmap. However, although I have like hundreds of hours work experience with XPGD and thousands of hours in other graphics software, every single time this comes up in XPGD I am absolutely embarrassingly lost. I feel like a complete idiot who has never used a computer sitting here and not being able to resize that selection rectangle.

Pls. help and tell me how on earth I can adjust a simple rectangular photo selection.

Cheers
David