Alice Wonder wrote: > 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? <snip> Don't do that, does nasty things to a budget. Don't know a tutorial, either, and their tools do operate in an, um, interesting manner. That being said... I dunno if I've used the intelligent scissors tool, but I'd expect to use a select tool, *then* a scissors. Feel free to talk or rant to me offlist.