Re: [Gimp-user] Similar function?

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Try the Fuzzy Select Tool, aka the Magic Wand

https://docs.gimp.org/2.8/en/gimp-tool-fuzzy-select.html

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Owen


> Sent: Monday, October 30, 2017 at 4:36 PM
> From: "Jeffry Killen" <jekillen prodigy net>
> To: gimp-user-list gnome org
> Subject: [Gimp-user] Similar function?
>
> Hello;
>
> It is not clear to me as I dig into the manual for Gimp, if there
> is a tool that does what the magic wand tool does in Photoshop.
>
> I have used the magic wand tool to select a solid background
> (single specific colored pixels such as white) in an image.
> Then inverting the selection so only the image part is selected.
> Then I can copy the selected image part and paste it into a layer
> in another file.
>
> In this way the image part now has a transparent background
> and can be combined with other image elements in the layer stack.
>
> I have done this often to create collage layouts.
>
> The way I get an image with a solid background is to use the
> pen tool in Photoshop and drag paths around the part of the
> image I want to carve out. Then I create a selection from the
> path. Once the selection is made I can copy the selected part
> of the image into a separate file with a solid background.
> ( I now have a separate file that can be reverted to if further
> image processing is unacceptable). 
>
> I am aware that there are other ways to isolate parts of an image
> but they seem to waste much of the time saved by having to clean
> them up and/or use trial and error to get exactly the right selection area.
>
> Thank you for time and attention;
> Jeff K
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