[Qgis-user] Options for selecting features?

[Randal Hale]

go to File -> Project properties -> General Tab. Click on Selection 
color. Change the opacity to around 60% .

I think that will do what you want.

Randy

On 02/17/2015 03:49 PM, yanoff at tularosa.net wrote:
> Hi,
>
> When selecting a feature or multiple features in a polygon shape file, is
> there a way that only the polygon border can show as selected?  That would
> allow layers below the selected features to be viewed.
>
> For example, I want to move all features in a polygon shape file using
> Toggle Edit > Move Features, based on what I see in an underlying aerial
> photo, but when I select features to move them, their fill turns yellow, so
> I cannot see the underlying aerial photo.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Steven Yanoff
>
>
>
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