On Thu, 2006-06-22 at 23:15 -0400, Portman wrote:

> I am resizing in GIMP and then copying to Word. I tried a number of 
> different ways - png, gif, jpg, bmp - all came out grainy.  The huge 
> image is not very smooth itself.

Seems like your Google term for part of the process, (lifting out that
first layer to work with), in Gimp may be "edge detection", found this
page showing some examples of a few different plug-ins:
http://www.pbase.com/lasm/edge_detect_in_gimp

hth!
-- 
cheers,

        Mark


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