Add frozen object from short exposure frame to long exposure frame

[mikej411]

Quote:Blighty
You are on the right track. Your long exposure image in the lower layer, a cut-out of a person in the layer above. I agree that working on a laptop is not easy, a mouse makes a big difference.

The first thing is to understand the selection tools. There is some info here:
http://www.gimp-forum.net/Thread-Gimp-se...-beginners

Another method is to use paths. More difficult for a beginner to use, but work well once you get used to them. There is some info on paths here:
http://www.gimp-forum.net/Thread-Paths-Basics

If you can't get it right you can post a link to an image you want to cut out. Much easier to explain with a real life example.

I have edited my original post and attached the type of photo I want to take. Check it out. Thanks for the tips, I am going to read up on these selection tools and try to work on this with a mouse and see if I can do any better. If you know of any more helpful videos, post them here. Thanks. Hope I can progress at this, and I will post my updates

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Quote:Espermaschine
Im not sure what you mean with masking out.

The standard way of fusing parts of two images is using a layermask. Depending on the image you can also use resynthesizer, a plug-in that "maqically" removes stuff from images and replaces it with the surrounding, but blending everything real well.
There are other similar tools (G'MIC for example has an impainting filter), but i find resynthesizer is the best.

Other ways of touching up images is the clone tool and the healing tool.

When it comes to tutorials, im a fan of 'Phlearn' on youtube. Its for photoshop but most of the techniques can be reproduced with Gimp.

My apologies for a lack of better terms, as I am all new to this. But see the attached picture in my original post, as I have updated the post. Also see Blighty's reply, as he may have explained what I want more eloquently.

After reviewing those 2 items, do you think resynthesizer would work for what I want? Or G'MIC? All of what you are saying is over my head, so you may have to show examples of these programs or explain in a dumbed down way for me to understand. Or post to some videos relating to what I am trying to accomplish