To cut one or more elements from an image, you can highlight areas of the image. In particular, if you wish to create a photo collage. To do this kind of editing, there are several selection tools available. Several GIMP features enable you to highlight just a portion of an image. To add a certain element to a photo montage, you can use it. Alternatively, you can remove it from a picture. To cut one or more elements from an image, you can highlight areas of the image. In particular, if you wish to create a photo collage. To do this kind of editing, there are several selection tools available. Several GIMP features enable you to highlight just a portion of an image. To add a certain element to a photo, you can use it. Alternatively, you can remove it from a picture. Be aware that layer masks can be utilized while creating a photo montage using the GIMP program. These serve as Photoshop’s analogs to layer masks. With these, you can remove or, more accurately, make certain transparent portions of an image that has been overlaying with another image. Therefore, you don’t need to clip out a part of a photograph and paste it over a different backdrop image. Simply utilize the layers to combine the photographs and make any objects you don’t want to appear in your photo montage transparent. We will provide you with the steps you can use to highlight part of an image in GIMP.
You can highlight part of an image in GIMP by using the following steps:
1. Open GIMP on your computer.
2. Go to the File menu.
3. Click on Open or New to create or open the image where you want to highlight part of an image.
4. Right-click the layer.
5. Select New Layer from the drop-down menu.
6. Select Transparency for the layer options.
7. Click OK, and the new layer will be selected.
8. Use the Rectangle select tool or another selection tool of your choice to select the area you want to highlight.
9. Press Ctrl + I to Invert Selection.
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Drag the black color on the background or foreground to the image and let go.
11. The color will fill the selected area with black color.
12. Now change the layer’s Opacity.
Your selected area should now be highlighted. You can repeat the steps above to highlight other parts of an image in GIMP that you would like to highlight. As you have seen, highlighting part of an image is possible using GIMP and is quite easy to learn and follow. While we have not provided you with how to use all the tools in GIMP that can highlight part of an image, we have provided you with a method that you can use even if you are a beginner because it is easy to follow. We wish you the best as you learn more about using the different tools to highlight part of an image in GIMP.