Re: [Gimp-user] Similar function?

[Carol Spears <carol spears gmail com>]

On Mon, Oct 30, 2017 at 1:36 AM, Jeffry Killen <jekillen prodigy net> wrote:

> 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.
>
> Foreground select works about like this, iirc.

carol