Hello; It is not clear to me as I dig into the manual for Gimp, if there is a tool that does what the magic wand tool does in Photoshop.
I have used the magic wand tool to select a solid background (single specific colored pixels such as white) in an image. Then inverting the selection so only the image part is selected. Then I can copy the selected image part and paste it into a layer in another file. In this way the image part now has a transparent background and can be combined with other image elements in the layer stack. I have done this often to create collage layouts. The way I get an image with a solid background is to use the pen tool in Photoshop and drag paths around the part of the image I want to carve out. Then I create a selection from the path. Once the selection is made I can copy the selected part of the image into a separate file with a solid background. ( I now have a separate file that can be reverted to if further image processing is unacceptable). I am aware that there are other ways to isolate parts of an image but they seem to waste much of the time saved by having to clean them up and/or use trial and error to get exactly the right selection area. Thank you for time and attention; Jeff K _______________________________________________ gimp-user-list mailing list List address: [email protected] List membership: https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user-list List archives: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gimp-user-list
