Re: [Gimp-user] Best way to remove a background of an image

[Burnie West <west ieee org>]

On 01/20/2014 03:14 AM, Owen wrote:
> 3. Cut the shoes out and paste as new layer on preferred floor
What I always do for this is to use the free select (lasso) tool, with settings 
"Antialiasing" and "Feather edges" both selected, and a radius of 2 or 3 pixels. 
Then I expand the image to 400%, select carefully around the edges, invert the 
selection (shortcut Ctrl i), cut (shortcut Ctrl-x), and this produces the 
desired  image.

There is a "scissors" tool that is supposed to identify background edges, but I 
don't think it works very well.

   -- Burnie