GIMP tools - BDA

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Foreground Select Tool lets you select the areas where the foreground objects are
located. In the Interactive refinement group-box control you can choose what to select–
foreground or background. The selection takes place in two stages – in the first stage,
you roughly select the area you want to extract and use a paintbrush to make it more
accurate afterwards
Select the roof of the house in the image.
1. Press the Foreground Select Tool ;
2. In the Interactive refinement group-box control, select the Mark foreground
radio button;
3. Select the roof. Once you complete the selection, the entire non-selected area is
covered with a blue mask:
4. Select a brush of the required size by the slider of the Small brush scale.
5. Use the brush to color the areas which belong to the selected interactive
division:
6. Once the path is finished, press the ENTER key. You can now see the selected
part:
Note!
7. Apply SelectNone command to cancel selection;
Paths Tool can also be used to make a selection. Apply the Selection from Path button
after you create the path and close it.
Quick Mask selection
You can open this selection method by several ways: through the Select Toggle Quick
Mask; by pressing the button in the lower left corner of the program window ; by
pressing the keyboard shortcut Shift+Q. Once you are done, the entire image window
fills with a light red translucent mask. Select the brush for painting the area you want to
select. Since a variety of brush sizes are available, you can paint the desired area really
accurately. Painting with white creates a selected area, whereas black unselects it.
Select the dog's neb in the image and copy it to a new layer.