On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 2:37 PM, snafubaby wrote:

I have an image, of a woman wearing heels, and i wanna remove the old, crappy looking floor from the image, where just the feet and the heels are visible. Is this possible, and easy to do? Here is a link to the picture.. http://www.dropshots.com/sneezer#date/2013-11-21/05:41:39

(Not having looked at the picture in question, sorry) I'd start with http://docs.gimp.org/2.8/en/gimp-tool-foreground-select.html. Perhaps even with its improved version from RGGJAN fork available at partha.com.

Alexandre

I have an image, of a woman wearing heels, and i wanna remove the old, crappy
looking floor from the image, where just the feet and the heels are visible. Is
this possible, and easy to do? Here is a link to the picture.. http://www.dropshots.com/sneezer#date/2013-11-21/05:41:39

Thank you in advance for any help you can give me. Thanks!

Many ways of skinning a cat.

1. Use one of the select tools to select the shoes 2. Use the quickmask to refine the selection 3. Cut the shoes out and paste as new layer on preferred floor

Owen

On 01/20/2014 03:14 AM, Owen wrote:

3. Cut the shoes out and paste as new layer on preferred floor

What I always do for this is to use the free select (lasso) tool, with settings "Antialiasing" and "Feather edges" both selected, and a radius of 2 or 3 pixels. Then I expand the image to 400%, select carefully around the edges, invert the selection (shortcut Ctrl i), cut (shortcut Ctrl-x), and this produces the desired image.

There is a "scissors" tool that is supposed to identify background edges, but I don't think it works very well.

-- Burnie

Owen writes:

1. Use one of the select tools to select the shoes 2. Use the quickmask to refine the selection 3. Cut the shoes out and paste as new layer on preferred floor

4. Use the eraser tool and a fuzzy brush, and vary the brush size for different parts of the image.
5. Add a layer mask and paint on the layer mask (ends up being similar to using the eraser, but a few more steps and more easily reversable).

When erasing (either with the tool or with a layer mask), I find it helps to add another layer underneath in a very garish color, like bright yellow or magenta -- it's easier to see what is and isn't there than it is against white or the grey transparency checkerboard.

...Akkana