thank you both for your prompt response. unfortunately it looks like i'm going to have give up. i don't understand any of the terms you used (i don't know what a layer is nor a mask, i'm a monkey following a tutorial)
please don't try to explain those terms. gimp is overhelming for a monkey like me.
i will give it one last shot and respectfully respond to your ideas. if you could please go to that tutorial at 9:26, i think thats what you 2 are trying to tell me. i've clicked on the "right one" as he has.
when i click on the LEFT one, then use paintbrush, its painting BLACK (which makes sense as the foreground is set to black)
when i click on the RIGHT one, then use paintbrush, its painting TRANSPARENT
i think this is what you 2 are trying to tell me
still not solved;
even though my paintbrush settings are identical to his, my paintbrush is HUGE compared to his, how could this be. maybe thats the issue.
so now its erasing (aka making my foreground transparent) such a big chunk of my foreground (instead of cleaning up the edges like his does at 9:47)
something still isn't right ;(
please don't try to explain those terms. gimp is overhelming for a monkey like me.
i will give it one last shot and respectfully respond to your ideas. if you could please go to that tutorial at 9:26, i think thats what you 2 are trying to tell me. i've clicked on the "right one" as he has.
when i click on the LEFT one, then use paintbrush, its painting BLACK (which makes sense as the foreground is set to black)
when i click on the RIGHT one, then use paintbrush, its painting TRANSPARENT
i think this is what you 2 are trying to tell me
still not solved;
even though my paintbrush settings are identical to his, my paintbrush is HUGE compared to his, how could this be. maybe thats the issue.
so now its erasing (aka making my foreground transparent) such a big chunk of my foreground (instead of cleaning up the edges like his does at 9:47)
something still isn't right ;(