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cut foreground people only from photo

Asked by GreatScott

i wish to trace/cut the foreground portion of a photo which contains two people and eliminate the background entirely. i tried tracing manually etc... using bezier curves but no luck getting the foreground chunk cut out. i know that this is possible but just no clue what sequence of actions will give me the result i desire... thanks for your help!

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Best Oleg Koptev (koptev-oleg) said : 		#1

As I understand you need clipping. Inkscape have clip function. First you
need to draw clipping path (bezier or whatever), then select both image and
path and choose Object->Clip->Set.

Is that what you need?

Cheers, Oleg

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GreatScott (scottv255) said : 		#2

yes! that was EXACTLY what i needed... Thanks!

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pbhj (pbhj) said : 		#3

I absolutely wouldn't do this with Inkscape, use The GIMP, it's got tools for just this purpose.