On Wed, 2005-06-08 at 08:08, Siri Amrit Kaur wrote:
> I've fiddled and searched for hours for an answer to this problem. 
> Maybe someone here knows the GIMP or can tell me where to look.
> 
> I have a square photo of a flower. I have used the elliptical tool to 
> make a circle around the flower, inside the square perimeter of the 
> picture. The part of the picture outside the circle is unneeded 
> background. If I click the quickmask button that area turns red. I 
> want to save the contents of the circle and remove or crop-out the 
> masked area. 
> 
> What I want to end up with is a round, cameo-shaped photo. How do I 
> accomplish that? 

Copy your eliptical selection and paste it into a new image. Make sure
you select a transparent background for you new image.

You can also feather the selection to give it a fade-out appearance.

> 
> I'd like to do more to it, like put a picture-frame effect around it, 
> but I don't understand even the basics of layers.

Imagine a printed photograph. Now place a transparent piece of plastic
over that photo. You can write on the plastic and it appears as if you
wrote on the photo.

Layer's work in a similar fashion. The enable you to modify the image,
while preserving the original state of the image.

I can do frames, but my technique is clumsy at best. If anyone else
knows how, please speak up.

FWIW, I found a book at Fry's (but I've also seen it at Barne's &
Nobel). It's part of the "Visual Quickstart Guide" series. 

This book has been very helpful when I work with gimp.

Bart

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