On Wed, 08 Jun 2005 08:08:45 -0700, Siri Amrit Kaur
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tigerflag@tigerflag.com> 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.
Other people have answered your question directly. This is an FYI.
The masking tool you discovered is a basic tool in photo manipulation.
Basically, anything inside the red masked area will be unaffected by any
tooling you do. So with your circle around the flower, you can now
brighten the flower, and only the part of the photo in the circle will be
lighter. Then _reverse_ the mask (red becomes normal, normal becomes
red), and now it's like a stencil you can use to spray paint a border on
the edge.
Used with laso selection, this becomes a very powerfull tool.
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--Alexander
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