GIMP help!

[stop__dreaming]

Hi all,

I was wondering if anyone could help me on the GIMP programming side? I'm very new to GIMP and have no experience with PhotoShop either so I apologise if this is very easy stuff!

How do you 'extract' (I think that's the term used in PhotoShop - not sure if that's what it is called in GIMP too?!) something away from an image? E.g If I had a picture of a player and would like to keep him and use that on a different background of my choice?

Hope my explaination helps!

Thanks guys.

[Obcodis]

http://www.wikihow.com/Extract-an-Image-in-GIMP

It takes a little to get used to and I use Photoshop. I am sure there are many tuts on youtube etc. It is called rendering an image.

[Tha Penguin]

You can use the pen tool to trace around an item within an image, then create it a a selection. Simply cut and paste the item you have selected. Or you can invert the selection and hit delete to keep the image you selected with a transparent background.