On 23 Apr 18:55, Bev Nicolson wrote:
On 23/04/18 10:24, Brett Parker wrote:
On 21 Apr 20:24, Bev Nicolson wrote:
Gimp 2.8 is doing its best to annoy me. Do any of you have any tips? (I have googled the manual and it didn't help.)
What I want to do is separate an object from the background. I've tried intelligent scissors and pressing clear just clears the lot, rather than the background. Ditto free select. And I just end up with a trailing free select lasso over the object I want to separate.
Because you were using the clear function, you should have inverted the selection before doing the clear, then the bit that you wanted would have remained.
Thanks,
I tried that with intelligent scissors on the original photo. Nothing. Tried it again with free select and that worked.
At a guess, and this is purely a guess, I'd say that you didn't finish with the intelligent scissors to end up with a selection, once you join the path together, you have to click in the inside of the path to get the selection, then you can invert it and clear, as you'd expect.
Thanks,