I saw Fred's later reply and am glad someone knew how to do it. I feel your pain, the gimp documentation isn't always the best. If you aren't already aware, when your work is suddenly undone, remember that Ctrl-Z (UnDo) is your friend. I found that I had to look for gimp tutorials on the web wherever I could and use the one that worked (as you discovered - not all do). And then there were cases where, like you did, posting on a forum produced far better results than hours of web search. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Alice Wonder" <alice at domblogger.net> To: "centos" <centos at centos.org> Sent: Friday, July 7, 2017 11:42:01 AM Subject: [CentOS] Extreme frustration with GIMP I am not a graphics person. Also can't afford to hire one. Trying to follow instructions at https://docs.gimp.org/en/gimp-tutorial-quickie-separate.html I use the "intelligent scissors" just like they say, spend quite a bit of effort doing so. Then click the foreground select tool - just like they say - and suddenly everything I did with the intelligent tool is undone. WTF? Does anyone know of an actual GIMP tutorial for removing background that doesn't cause me to throw a damn brick through my monitor? Photoshop makes it easy, but clearly GIMP developers have a completely different philosophy on how a graphics tool should work and I can't figure out what their philosophy is. _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS at centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos