(10-03-2024, 10:06 PM)rabbitdestiny Wrote: thank you for the overwhelming number of responses. it seems it may not be possible to achieve this in gimp, so i will try to use blenders color ramp to remove the background and make it see through while still keeping the needed image present.
Depends on the complexity of the image but in Gimp use the Foreground Extract tool to generate a selection to exclude the background. Then invert selection, cut selection
see: https://docs.gimp.org/en/gimp-tool-foreg...elect.html