Problems cutting out background

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@Espermaschine thanks for the reply.

Pen tool - I must have missed that last instruction when I saw the youtube videos.
Lasso: now working.

but the mask instruction... i'm not seeing what you suggested... i can't see 'initialise layermask'

this is what i see:



what am i doing wrong?
thanks

(05-26-2018, 12:39 AM)Espermaschine Wrote: To finish a path and connect with the first node, hold down CTRL.
A path is created in the paths-tab from where you can call up a selection with the little button at the bottom of the paths-tab.

This selection marks whats inside the marching ants, so if you want to remove the background, invert the selection before hitting delete (and make sure you have an alpha channel).

For non destructive removal of the BG with the help of a layermask:
- make the selection
- right-click on the layer in the layers-tab and choose the 'Add Layermask'' option
- choose initialise layermask from selection and also tick 'Invert Mask'
- deselect

Easy way to memorize layermasks:
"White reveals, and Black conceals"


The behaviour of the Lasso Tool has changed in Gimp 2.10, now you have to hit Enter to activate the marching ants.
This has the advantage that you can still tweak the selectionpoints before you finalise it.