Hello! I hope someone will tell me how to do the following photo manipulation. Bear with me, please.

What I want to do: Place image inside an ellipse and color area between image and ellipse line. Square corners of ellipse will be transparent, of course.
What I can do: Place image inside ellipse and make area outside of ellipse transparent. Use lasso tool to make path around image that is inside ellipse and cut it out. Then I can color all ellipse and transparent square except image. This leaves a colored square with the image centered within that square.

Why I am stuck: I want area between ellipse border and image to be colored as I chose, while area between ellipse and square lines remains transparent. I Googled lots, learned some, but can’t do this yet. Any suggestions will be appreciated.

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There are any number of ways, some better than others however roughly using your
procedure but maybe in a different sequence.

1. Open the image

2. Add a new layer, fill with whatever you want as a background, move the layer
under the image.

3. Make your selection around the subject.

4. Invert the selection Select menu -> Invert and cut it Edit -> Cut (or
delete)

5. Merge the layers Layer -> Merge Down

6. Make the elliptical selection.

7. Invert the selection Select -> Invert

8. Cut the selection Edit -> Cut (or delete) and then Select -> None to lose the
selection.

9. To trim to size (if you want) Image -> Crop to Content.

Remember if you want to preserve the transparency save the image as a Gimp xcf
or Export as a png file.

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https://www.gimpusers.com/system/attachments/1281/original/02-oval.jpg *
https://www.gimpusers.com/system/attachments/1282/original/03-oval.jpg

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