On 23/04/18 22:56, Bev Nicolson wrote:
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,
OK, just for you (and the list) I have just tried that again. I'm not aware they mention this detail in the manual, but still. Yes it did work.
A method I use to remove objects from the background is to change the background colour to alpha (transparent). It can then be cut and pasted with relative ease.
Clearly that only works when the background is a simple one.
Nev