Good afternoon all.
God I love GIMP! Congrats to everyone involved who designed it. Just love it. Use it hours a day. I've used it solidly for about 6 months now.
I've included a pic that highlights what I'm trying to do. Not mine, but it's a good example. I'm trying to achieve this effect. ie: I'm taking a google earth map. I've drawn around the US so, there's a (aqua) line around the borders of the US. I'd like to take everything else (but US - which i'd keep as is) and change it to a slightly faded mono color. So ideally as I'm trying to present the picture of the US, it (and it alone) POPS out.
I'm having trouble pasting my selection. (as I say I've got an aqua border around the border of the US). So I can use fuzzy select (of aqua), or select by color (aqua), and create a PATH of the US no problem.
I want to copy and paste (just the US) as another layer by itself (so it can stay it's color, i can manipulate the color of everything else but the US). That's my approach to creating it.
When I select the path I've created (of just the US), it'll only copy the outlilne - NOT the contents within. I essentially want to pick JUST the US out of this picture (via the aqua border i've created, and the path).
As I've said I've tried creating a mask with the path, select by color, fuzzy select, whenever i copy/paste it just copies the aqua border outline I've created, not the contents within.
So frustrated. I know i should be able to do it. Just can't figure it out.
If you could suggest a way, please let me know. Thanks in advance.
SUMMARY: Extract just this pic of the US out this picture, paste as a new layer. (again i have a pre drawn aqua line border around the US) You'd think it'd be easy.
![[Image: tutorial--style-single-country-step-fina...813b2.webp]](https://docs.mapbox.com/help/assets/tutorial--style-single-country-step-final-960-ce9368950824a0a6a9dc04766e3813b2.webp)
God I love GIMP! Congrats to everyone involved who designed it. Just love it. Use it hours a day. I've used it solidly for about 6 months now.
I've included a pic that highlights what I'm trying to do. Not mine, but it's a good example. I'm trying to achieve this effect. ie: I'm taking a google earth map. I've drawn around the US so, there's a (aqua) line around the borders of the US. I'd like to take everything else (but US - which i'd keep as is) and change it to a slightly faded mono color. So ideally as I'm trying to present the picture of the US, it (and it alone) POPS out.
I'm having trouble pasting my selection. (as I say I've got an aqua border around the border of the US). So I can use fuzzy select (of aqua), or select by color (aqua), and create a PATH of the US no problem.
I want to copy and paste (just the US) as another layer by itself (so it can stay it's color, i can manipulate the color of everything else but the US). That's my approach to creating it.
When I select the path I've created (of just the US), it'll only copy the outlilne - NOT the contents within. I essentially want to pick JUST the US out of this picture (via the aqua border i've created, and the path).
As I've said I've tried creating a mask with the path, select by color, fuzzy select, whenever i copy/paste it just copies the aqua border outline I've created, not the contents within.
So frustrated. I know i should be able to do it. Just can't figure it out.
If you could suggest a way, please let me know. Thanks in advance.
SUMMARY: Extract just this pic of the US out this picture, paste as a new layer. (again i have a pre drawn aqua line border around the US) You'd think it'd be easy.