Quote:... I am only scratching at the very surface of what Gimp can do at the moment. I shall give this a go and look into ImageMagick...
I did look at creating a path from your image and have to confess it is not absolute beginner material. There are overlapping paths and plenty hand editing involved. Stick with Gimp and selections for the moment.
I will attach the Gimp path I created, logo.svg. Unzip the attachment, then it is added to an image with a right-click and Import path from the paths dock. Why a path? It can be scaled up or down without degradation.
In Gimp like this; Very quick demo to again fit into 60 seconds
. https://i.imgur.com/V6YcISY.mp4 something to try out in the future.