Gimp Tutorial - Popout Photo
Really, this tutorial will be about masking: taking a photograph and separating a foreground subject from the background, for the purposes of doing something interesting with it.
This kind of subject may prove unsatisfying, because when you sit down to write a tutorial, you're free to pick whatever nice clean image you want as your subject. In the real world, clients come to you with fuzzy, blurry, low-res JPGs that have been saved numerous times, with a whole circus of noise in the background. So that's how these masking tutorials make it look so easy: we cheat. If you find this work to be slow, frustrating, and tedious, you're right: masking is just like that, and takes some skill to pull off.
So, for our nice, clean, no-hassle subject image, we'll use this Model-A Ford photo from Wikimedia Commons. From the featured images, yet!
How to mask a subject
1. Generally, the first step is to go Filters-> Colors-> Decompose, and in the dialog check "RGB" and "decompose to layers.
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