Re: [Gimp-user] Crop to oval?

[Stefan Maerz <stefanmaerz gmail com>]

On 03/30/2012 07:24 PM, Steve Kinney wrote:
> Fast and simple:  Open your image.  Make the selection you want with
> the oval select tool.  Do Select>  Feather in your main menu.  Then
> do Control+i (or, Select>  Invert) to select everything /but/ your
> oval.  Then drag and drop "white" from the color selector tool in
> your main toolbox into the image.
>
> Do Control+alt+a to remove your selection (or Select>  None), and
> look at the result.  Want more/less "blur" around the edge?  Do
> control-z repeatedly until your oval selection reappears and
> disappears.  Start over, and select more/less pixels in the Select>
> Feather menu.
>
> No layers, no complications.
>
> :o)
>
> Steve
Steve beat me. I wrote an response explaining just this. My explanation 
was _much_ too complicated, so my apologies.

Anyways here are some tutorials grouped by difficulty:
http://www.gimp.org/tutorials/

-Stefan Maerz